In October 2006, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the VA initiated the process of providing retroactive compensation for more than 133,000 disabled recipients of either combat-related special compensation (CRSC) or concurrent retired disability payment (CRDP) and VA compensation. Since then, the VA has identified more than 85,000 additional retirees as potentially eligible for retroactive payment. As of April 20, DFAS reported that nearly 179,000 accounts have been processed, with approximately 39,000 remaining. Of those, more than 16,000 are new cases. But about 23,000 of the most complicated cases from the originally identified group still are being worked on.
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