Let's Try to Fix the SBP/DIC Offset When The 2008 NDAA Is Revised

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Let's Try to Fix the SBP/DIC Offset When The 2008 NDAA Is Revised 2008 National Defense Authorization Act

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Fix Section 644: SBP/DIC Offset Please send the following editable text to your Senators and Representatives- -
As you are aware the President returned the 2008 National Defense Authorization act via pocket veto to Congress because of objections to Section 1083: Terrorism Exception to Immunity.
My presumption is that the Congress, rather than attempting to over ride this veto, will accommodate the President's objections by revising the 2008 NDAA.
If that be the case, then I strongly urge that you propose one additional revision to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act before it is returned to the President for signature. That revision would be to replace the current wording of Section 644: Special Survivor Indemnity Allowance for Persons Affected by Required Survivor Benefit Plan Annuity Offset for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, with appropriate wording that would simply restore the fully amount of SBP that is offset by DIC.
Consider the following: As currently worded Section 644 would grant an allowance of $50/month for 2008, increase by $10 for 5 years and then remain fixed at $100/month. Compare that amount to the 2008 DIC amount of $1091/month. For the 61,000 DIC widows, many living in poverty, this is a meager pittance compared to what full restoration of the offset amount would do for them.
Please help these DIC widows who were left in the cold when the two tiered SBP step down from 55% to 35% at age 62 was repealed in 2004.


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