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Under the current inflation update, monthly disability and pension payments increased 1.7 percent this year. Under chained CPI, those payments would have increased 1.4 percent.
That's not the way Sen. Bernie Sanders sees it. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs said "he recently warned Obama that every veterans group he knows of has come out strongly against changing the benefit calculations for disability benefits and pensions by using chained CPI".
Veterans fight changes to disability payments | General Headlines | Comcast
Members of Congress regardless of their political designation will rue the day that they supported the reduction of VA Disability Compensation and pension payments for low-income veterans and surviving families.
That's not the way Sen. Bernie Sanders sees it. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs said "he recently warned Obama that every veterans group he knows of has come out strongly against changing the benefit calculations for disability benefits and pensions by using chained CPI".
Veterans fight changes to disability payments | General Headlines | Comcast
Members of Congress regardless of their political designation will rue the day that they supported the reduction of VA Disability Compensation and pension payments for low-income veterans and surviving families.
