It was just over a year ago that the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the VA first initiated "VA retro" payments to approximately 133,000 disabled retirees who were eligible for new concurrent receipt legislation and filed a VA claim since Congress authorized payment of combat-related special compensation (CRSC) in June 2003 or concurrent retirement and disability pay (CRDP) in 2004. DFAS and the VA established a self-imposed deadline to complete the payments by Nov. 15, 2007. But that date has long since come and gone, and files of approximately 49,000 retirees are still in the queue waiting for payment.
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