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HEHS-95-136R 1 (1995-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackuu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AO) United States (3 O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-260700 April 27, 1995 The Honorable John McCain United States Senate The Honorable Jon Kyl United States Senate Current law requires a career military service member who retires and is disabled to offset his or her retirement pay by any disability compensation the member receives from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Over the past several years, several members of the Congress have proposed bills to allow concurrent receipt of Department of Defense (DOD) longevity' retirement and VA disability compensation. To provide information the Congress could use in its deliberations on this matter, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (P.L. 102-484) required DOD to report on the cost of concurrent receipt of military retirement pay and VA disability compensation. In December 1993, DOD reported, If full concurrent receipt were enacted, it would add $50.8 billion in present value of unfunded government liabilities.,2 In March 1994, DOD revised this estimate to $53.5 billion.3 Because of your concerns with the accuracy of DOD's estimate, you asked us (1) to assess the methodology DOD used in preparing its report about full concurrent receipt and (2) to provide estimates of the 1-year outlays for allowing 'Military personnel are generally eligible for longevity retirement upon completion of 20 or more years of qualifying service. Service members who become physically unfit to perform their military duties are eligible for disability retirement under certain conditions and may retire with less than 20 years of service. 2Unfunded liability is the total amount of liability attributable to past service for which no assets have been set aside. 3DOD's unfunded liability estimate was revised to reflect costs associated with partial offsets for active duty personnel projected to retire. GAO/HEHS-95-136R Concurrent Receipt /57o2/Y

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