Senate cuts expansion of concurrent receipt

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Posted : Tuesday Jul 20, 2010 16:57:52 EDT

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/07/military_concurrentreceipt_senate_072010w/

Another congressional effort to expand concurrent receipt of military retired pay and veterans disability compensation has failed.

Facing election-year pressure to dramatically scale back new spending, the Senate voted Tuesday for a stripped-down economic assistance bill that now omits a proposal supported by the White House and approved by the House of Representatives that would have temporarily extended concurrent receipt of both benefits to medically retired veterans who served less than 20 years in uniform.