Veterans Benefits Network-CRDP vs CRSC (2024)

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Veterans Benefits Network-CRDP vs CRSC? ›

If you meet the eligibility requirements, CRDP is automatically applied. The amount that had been taken away by the VA waiver, is now included back in, thus increasing the amount you receive to your full retired pay. Next, we have CRSC. CRSC is for veterans whose disabilities are combat-related.

As a special compensation for disability, CRSC payments are not taxed and cannot be divided by a court in a divorce. As restored retired pay, CRDP is taxable income and can be divided by a court in a divorce.

SECTION 1414 OF THE SAME TITLE: The law requires that a member eligible for both CRSC, as provided by section 1413a of title 10, United States Code, and Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payments (CRDP), as provided by section 1414 of title 10, United States Code, may not receive both but must elect which ...

In order to receive the full retroactive CRSC entitlement, you must file your CRSC claim within 6 years of the date of any VA rating decision that could potentially make you eligible for CRSC or the date you become entitled to retired pay, whichever is more recent.

Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP) allows military retirees to receive both military retired pay and Veterans Affairs (VA) compensation. This was prohibited until the CRDP program began on January 1, 2004. CRDP is a "phase in" of benefits that gradually restores a retiree's VA disability offset.

You must be in retired status, receiving military retired pay, you must be rated by the VA and have service-connected disabilities, have an active VA waiver in place with DFAS.

YES. Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) is one of two forms of concurrent receipt. Concurrent Receipt allows military retirees to receive both their retired pay and VA disability compensation concurrently without a reduction in your retired pay amount.

A: If you elect to receive CRSC, your retired pay will be offset by the full amount of your VA disability pay. You may still receive some retired pay if your retired pay exceeds your VA disability pay.

Retirees with 20 years of service and a service-connected disability rated at 50 percent or greater by the VA are eligible for CRDP. needs to be service connected. with a former spouse. Must have a VA disability rating of 50-100 percent.

In addition to monthly CRDP payments, you may be eligible for a retroactive payment. DFAS will audit your account to determine whether or not you are due retroactive payment. An audit of your account requires researching pay information from both DFAS and VA.

What is the average CRSC payment? ›

2 The average disability offset for those retirees was just over $1,900 per month in 2022, almost three times the average CRSC payment of just under $700 per month. Under H.R. 1282, those disability retirees would instead receive the full amount of their retired pay.

To be eligible for schedular TDIU benefits, a veteran must have either: a single service-connected condition with a rating of at least 60 percent; or. (the 70/40 rule) at least two service-connected conditions with a combined rating of at least 70 percent, with at least one of the conditions rated 40 percent or higher.

Does PTSD qualify for CRSC? It can, yes. Any VA disability for which you are rated at 10% or over will serve as one qualification for CRSC.

CRSC is the combat-related version of concurrent receipt unlike CRDP which is not combat-related. CRSC is tax-free; CRDP is not. You must apply to your Service for CRSC. The Services determine what proportion of your VA disability rating is combat-related.

The only retirees not eligible for CRDP are those retirees who retired for medical reasons (under chapter 61 of USC 10) with less than 20 years of service. Reserve Component members must be receiving retired pay to receive CRDP; after all, CRDP is the restoration of retired pay that is withheld due to the VA Waiver.

To be sure you get the full amount of your back payments, you must file your CRSC claim within 6 years of any VA rating decision or the date you become entitled to retired pay, whichever comes first. If you file your claim after this 6-year limit, you can only get up to 6 years' worth of any payments due to you.

If you are due any money from DFAS, you will receive it within 30-60 days of receipt of your first CRDP monthly payment. If DFAS finds that you are also due a retroactive payment from the VA, they will forward an audit to the VA. VA is responsible for paying any money you may be due.

CRSC is payable for disabilities that are found to be related to combat, including disabilities that were incurred in actual combat, while engaged in hazardous service, in the performance of duty simulating war, training for combat or as a result of an instrumentality of war.