Veterans organizations continue to organize around the Major Richard Star Act.
The federal legislation would allow veterans to receive full benefits from Department of Defense retirement pay and Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation.
Disabled American veterans National Commander Joe Parsetich said, "the issue of concurrent receipt is one of fairness."
"Military retiree pay and VA compensation for life-changing, and often lifelong, disabilities are for separate reasons, and one should not impact the other," he argued.