According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, over 100, 000 of these receive disability compensation or pension payments from the federal government.

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Singh was demanding disability compensation from the bus owner after his accident, but the bus owner instead accused Singh of drink driving.

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The Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act, sponsored by Representative Bob Stump (R-Ariz.), would introduce, among other provisions, a cost-of-living increase for service-connected disability compensation and would expand eligiblity for compensation and survivors' benefits.

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The Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act, sponsored by Representative Bob Stump (Republican-Arizona), would introduce, among other provisions, a cost-of-living increase for service-connected disability compensation and would expand eligiblity for compensation and survivors' benefits.

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To obtain an accurate reconciliation between the DoD and DVA as to the correct pay and allowance entitlement to be paid by the military services to their reserve forces and the proper pension or disability compensation to be paid to, or waived by, certain veterans in the reserve forces.

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The Trade Adjustment Assistance Act is the principal programme for compensating those displaced by trade, but its outlays are a rounding error compared to the money spent on disability and health insurance compensation.

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Here are the facts about so-called mandatory entitlement spending in the U.S.: Out of a typical year's federal budget about half goes to transfer payments of various sorts--Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment compensation, disability programs, etc.

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Ms Risdale has since lost a compensation claim for disability discrimination.

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