“Disability compensation for veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly the youngest, is set too low, creating a lifetime earnings gap with nondisabled peers,” according to a new draft study.
Other veterans being undercompensated, and by a “substantial margin,” said Christensen, are those left 100 percent disabled or unemployable at 45 or younger. [...]
CNA noted that a 25-year-old veteran who returned from war 100 percent disabled from physical wounds and was rated as unemployable by the VA began receiving $28,352 a year in disability compensation using 2005 rates. That amount was more than $11,000 short of the $39,447 needed annually to stay even with nondisabled peers, the study found.
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