U.S. House of Representatives to Debate a $1 Billion Cut in Wartime Elderly, Poor, Disabled Veterans’ Benefits
The United States House of Representatives will soon be debating, and voting on S. 1315, as amended, a bill that will cut nearly a billion dollars in pension benefits for wartime, elderly, poor, severely disabled or house-bound American veterans to in part fund unprecedented benefits for World War II Filipino veterans. Please let me know what you think of this cut of nearly $1 billion in benefits from veterans who most need our support by calling (202) 225-3527.
Background: The language in S. 1315 is similar to a bill in the House of Representatives, H.R. 760, as amended, the Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2007. The amended bill would eliminate special monthly pensions for many severely disabled veterans over 65 who are also receiving pensions for wartime service. It would use $156 million of the funds saved by this unprecedented cut in veterans’ benefits eligibility to provide budgetary offsets to fund oversized pensions for non-citizen, non-resident World War II Filipino veterans.
In 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (the Court) overturned a Department of Veterans Affairs decision that denied an 86-year-old, legally blind World War II veteran, Robert A. Hartness, a VA benefit called “special monthly pensionâ€
BENEFITS CUT PROPOSED
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No way should one group of American veterans be compensated at the expense of another.
However, the above article shows that the old racism remains. The Philippine Army of pre-war & WW2 was an American colonial institution, formed to protect an American colony, and as such, was an American armed force, not a national force.
Further, many Filipino nationals (er, colonial subjects) served in the US Army proper in the SWPAC theater of operations & in the US Navy and were denied any compensation postwar.
We kept the loyalty of most Filipino subjects through the promise of immediate postwar independence & barbaric Jap occupation policies.
However, the above article shows that the old racism remains. The Philippine Army of pre-war & WW2 was an American colonial institution, formed to protect an American colony, and as such, was an American armed force, not a national force.
Further, many Filipino nationals (er, colonial subjects) served in the US Army proper in the SWPAC theater of operations & in the US Navy and were denied any compensation postwar.
We kept the loyalty of most Filipino subjects through the promise of immediate postwar independence & barbaric Jap occupation policies.
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2d Bn U.D. for 75th Ranger Regt Assn
2d Bn(Ranger)75 Inf 1975-'77
RS 9-76
Former mentor to RANGER XCrunner.
"I am well aware that by no means equal repute attends the narrator and the doer of deeds” Sallust ‘The Catiline Conspiracy’
