I was diagnosed with Diabetes II in April of 2004. I know it is on the presumptive list for AOrange. I'm 40% disabled by the VA. I was in Vietnam a total of 13 months. No retirement. Can I draw CRSC pay, because of Diabetes. I found it on the list of Cobat related VS. service connected and it said it was considered combat related. Thanx for your expertise.

Greetings and special blessings.

I am sorry, but in order to draw CRSC for under 20 years, you must be retired on a Chapter 61, Medical retirement.

The CRSC is giving back what the VA takes from your retirement pay. No retirement pay, then there is no way you can draw the CRSC.

For the people who got out of service with a lump sum payment on a medical, if you do draw any CRSC, you would have to pay back the lump sum payment you received first.

I trust this helps to answer your question. If anyone else has anything on this please post.

May God richly Bless and you.

In His Service,

Grover

You know, it is kinda sad in a way. Looked at the My Pay site yesterday, and after all this time, my retired pay is now reduced to ZERO! This is of course because of my 100% rating being more than my retirement pay, and of course someday CRSC will kick in for that same amount of my used to be retired pay. I suppose that when we get a cost of living raise of retirement pay, the CRSC will pick that up as well.

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Originally posted by Sch****e:
You know, it is kinda sad in a way. Looked at the My Pay site yesterday, and after all this time, my retired pay is now reduced to ZERO! This is of course because of my 100% rating being more than my retirement pay, and of course someday CRSC will kick in for that same amount of my used to be retired pay. I suppose that when we get a cost of living raise of retirement pay, the CRSC will pick that up as well.

Just got the paperwork from DFAAS yesterday telling me mine will be reduced down to $123.00 as of 1 August due to my 80%. Been **ly a few days since I filed my CRCS papers so I got a bunch of waiting to do to get caught back up.
Bill

Yeah, I have them backed up as well. My April approval to 80% is still not being paid, and now they have my June approval to 100% to work **. They seem to have become slower than previous, just too many of us applying I suppose. I called last week about the April approval, they told me it had been worked that day, but my CRSC voucher in My Pay still s**ws the old rate.

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Originally posted by Sch****e:
You know, it is kinda sad in a way. Looked at the My Pay site yesterday, and after all this time, my retired pay is now reduced to ZERO! This is of course because of my 100% rating being more than my retirement pay, and of course someday CRSC will kick in for that same amount of my used to be retired pay. I suppose that when we get a cost of living raise of retirement pay, the CRSC will pick that up as well.

D**ALD
You brought up **e h*ll of a questi**. COLA for VA is under ***le II USC, Retirement pay under ***le X and XVIII USC. The CRSC program implementati** effective Jan 2008 has no provisi**s for COLA and w**'s going to pay for it. I will have to reasearch the wording of the law itself and get back to you. It seems that the CRSC I and CRSC II programs had t**se provisi**s built into it, now that the new CRSC kicked in, I did not see it. Get back to a very interesting point you brought up.
Freddy

I have no idea where t**se came from but I'm not going to retype everything for the 3rd time.
Read carefully!!
Freddy

Boy do we ever have the filter turned up to high this morning! Everything seems to be porno to it.
I was **ping some**e w** is in that situati** would resp**d ** the way COLA works now.

what Donald?

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Originally posted by 15781731:
what Donald?

Donald,

As I understand it CRSC COLA increase is on auto. When we receive a COLA increase in our retired pay, CRSC increases that amount automaticaly.
Bill

I feel sure it must work that way. Thanks

Military retirement, VA disability, et al...
COLAs are always at the same rate as social security COLAs.

I understand that, but when 100% and you draw no retirement pay, is the cola applied to your retirement voucher or your CRSC voucher. Same difference of course, I think.

I am new to this, so hope that I am asking on the right thread. I am writing on behalf of my husband, who was just approved 100% SC, all Combat related, nearly all orthopedic from GSW's and TBI from a blast in Viet Nam. He has a doctorate and worked for over 30 years, but developed problems from brain injury, has become blind, and the years of wear and tear on the joints with the injuries and retained bullets have left him using a walker with worse to come. He is 60 years old. He was medically retired, Chapter 61, after serving only 3 years in Viet Nam. He was on approximately 50% disability prior to 4 years ago when he could no longer work. He was just approved for SSDI last month as well. Question: He heard he could apply for CRSC and would like for me to do that for him.
He was only an E-5 Sgt., so his retirement pay, all offset by the VA disability, is only about $800. However, it seems like the formula for someone who only served 3 years (2.5% x 3 years x base pay) would only be about $40. Is this correct? If correct, is there any other benefit to going through the application process for CRSC? Thanks for any wisdom and guidance you can provide.

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Welcome to this website first and foremost. I'm sure I am speaking for all that make this website a "Home of information wealth."

In reference to your question. You can go to the following Link: mypay.dfas.mil/mypay.aspx and access your latest "would have been pay" had you received it, they update it everytime there's a change, so you should have one posted for December 2007. Your husband is a Chapter 61 retiree and has disabilities rated concurrently at least with the rating he received at the time of his medical retirement. Don't try to figure out what you think his pay would be, for you would have to include all his colas etc., so it's best to look at the Dfas website. He should or you should on his behalf, go to the following link after you're done with dfas:www.hrc.army.mil/site/crsc/index.html and download the DD Form 2860 for his submission of his CRSC claim. While you're there, by all means, take a few moments to look over the FAQ section and most of your questions will be answered. After you have done these things, please let us know how it went, and equally how you both are doing. There are some fantastic resident experts on Military.com. Two Dave's, and many more. Wishing you the best and Godspeed.
A Veteran in Arms
Freddy

Eh...If I missed anything, be sure to straighten me out, I take criticism very well.
God Bless you and yours.
Freddy

I invite you to also ask me questions because I am an Official Dual Ambassador for both CRSC/TSGLI granted by Col John F. Sackett on 2/25/2008. It is now park of my job as being a DAV NSO.

Welcome aboard? Navy term? or was it Welcome on Deck!
Nevertheless, I always advocate seeking advice from a VSO. Having said that, I also always advocate "Educate Oneself" for NO ONE CARES about your disability claim or issue more that YOU DO.
A Veteran in Arms
Freddy

You are so right! If you are working with a VSO, from any organization and they are all good, please be very truthful and tell them everything. They are very good at what they do but I have not met one yet, including myself, who can read your mind. Please keep us informed of your wants and needs and we will try our hardest to make it happen.

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Originally posted by 14332079:
You are so right! If you are working with a VSO, from any organization and they are all good, please be very truthful and tell them everything. They are very good at what they do but I have not met one yet, including myself, who can read your mind. Please keep us informed of your wants and needs and we will try our hardest to make it happen.

Dunno !!
I know there are a great number of VSO's that have the fire of passion within, care deeply and go the distance to insure veterans are justly adjudicated. I also know that a vast number of them consider any successful claim as a "win" no matter the percentage and whether the veteran should have fared better. If that wasn't the case, we would have nothing but happy veterans with rightfully and justly adjudicated claims. Unfortunately, many veterans find much later what they had felt all along, and that is that they should have gotten more. Perhaps it's the system overloaded, the VSO's handling too many claims, whatever, but I stand by my notion that it's a "numbers" game. If it wasn't so, I would never had gone to Law School. Lastly, I never have, nor would I ever advocate any veteran to be untruthful, rather, I stated "Be Firm, be Focused and be Determined."

Eres Tu !!!
Freddy