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VETS' COMMISSION TO FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL

UNEMPLOYABILITY -- Meeting to held in

Washington D.C. on January 18 and 19.

 

 

This should be a very interesting meeting of the Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission (VDBC).

The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) will be presenting their report on Individual Unemployability.  What will CNA propose?  Let's hope they haven't been listening to Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  Craig gets "unemployable" confused with "unemployed" and feels it is the VA's job to find work for all "unemployable" veterans.  More on Craig here...
http://www.vawatchdog.org/old%
20newsflashes/newsflash10-28-2005-2.htm

Also...the Commission will take input on Line of Duty, Character of Discharge and Concurrent Receipt.

VDBC web site here... http://www.vetscommission.org/index.asp

Meeting information here... http://www.vetscommission.org/
displayContents.asp?id=6

Information below:

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Metro-Washington, DC Public Meetings

January 2007

Thursday, January 18 - 8:00 am to 5:15 pm; and
Friday, January 19 - 8:00 am to 3:00 pm
(*Please note the change to a 2-day meeting in January*)

Location: Hotel Washington, (15th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW)
515 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC

The (draft) agenda for the meeting will include updates on the progress of the studies being conducted by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

CNA will include an overview and discussion with Commissioners regarding its research and analyses of Individual Unemployability (IU) and Program Operations.

VA will provide a public response to IOM’s request for documents and information related to IOM’s research on behalf of the Commission.

In addition to providing a summary of the overall status of Issue Papers addressing specific Research Questions, Commission staff will also facilitate the presentation and discussion of new or revised Issue Papers at various stages of development. (Research Questions approved by the Commission on October 14, 2005.)

On Friday morning, there will be time set aside for the Commission to receive comments from veteran and military service organizations and interested members of the public on three topics related to specific Research Questions. The three topics will be:

Line of Duty (Research Question 13);

Character of Discharge (Research Question 23); and

Concurrent Receipt (Research Question 21 - addressing concurrent receipt policies for military retirees only.)
Please note that the portion of Research Question 21 addressing survivor benefits will be addressed in a separate Issue Paper. The SBP-DIC Offset, also referred to as the Survivors Concurrent Receipt Issue Paper will be posted for review following approval by the Commission (anticipated at the January 2007 meeting) with public comments to be received at the next month's meeting of the Commission.

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Larry Scott

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