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Permits certain chapter 61 disability retirees eligible for CRSC with under 20 years' service to receive retired pay not reduced by VA disability offsets under 38 U.S.C. §§5304–5305.
The bill increases take-home pay (including retroactive payments) and clarifies concurrent-receipt rules for certain combat-disabled retirees, at the cost of higher federal spending and short-term administrative burdens for agencies and some House staff.
Veterans retired under chapter 61 with combat-related disabilities and under 20 years' service will receive full retired pay without an offset for VA disability, and eligible retirees will receive retroactive payments starting the first month after enactment.
Clarifies and simplifies concurrent receipt rules (including updating headings and making the operative subsection explicit), reducing administrative ambiguity for the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Expanding non-reducible retired pay increases federal outlays, creating budgetary pressure that could affect taxpayers or crowd out other defense or federal priorities.
Implementing the payment and rule changes will require DoD, VA, and Treasury administrative updates, producing short-term processing costs and risks of delays or payment errors that could affect beneficiaries.
A new 3-day transmission deadline for Clerk of the House staff increases administrative workload for federal employees and may divert staff time from other tasks, with no direct public benefit.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Official title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2102) to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for concurrent receipt of veterans' disability compensation and retired pay for disability retirees with combat-related disabilities, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 30, 2026 by Mark Takano · Last progress April 30, 2026
Expands concurrent receipt so some military retirees with service-connected disabilities who qualify for Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) and have fewer than 20 years of creditable service may receive retired pay that is not reduced by VA disability offsets under 38 U.S.C. §§5304 and 5305. The change amends Title 10 provisions, revises wording to make a particular subsection operative, removes transitional phase-in language, and takes effect the first day of the first month after enactment for applicable monthly payments. The resolution also contains procedural language directing the House Clerk to notify the Senate of passage within three days and identifies an amendment-in-the-nature-of-a-substitute as the incorporated text; those provisions do not themselves create new substantive duties or appropriate funds.