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Timestamp: 2018-03-20 01:51:04
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VA Secretary Shulkin Testifies on FY 2018 Budget
Veterans Affairs Secretary Dr. David Shulkin testifies before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on his agency’s budget request for fiscal year 2018.
Unemployability Excerpt starts at 00:53:03 video
CHAIRMAN ISAKSON
>I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET FOR A MINUTE IF I MAY. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL UNEMPLOYABILITY CAP. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE RATIONALE OF WHAT WENT THROUGH THE THOUGHT PROCESS THAT WENT THROUGH THIS?
>SECRETARY SHULKIN: SENATOR HELLER, MY STARTING POINT IS THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE TO DO BETTER FOR OUR VETERANS. WE HAVE TO DELIVER ON OUR COMMITMENTS THAT WE HAVE TO OUR VETERANS. THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET INCLUDES SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN BOTH DISCRETIONARY AND MANDATORY FUNDS AND MAKES CHOICE A PERMANENT PART OF FUNDING, BUT WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE OUR CURRENT FUNDS IN A WAY THAT MAKES SENSE, BEST FOR VETERANS AND TAXPAYERS. SO WE PROPOSE A PART OF THE PROCESS THAT WOULD REVISE THE INDIVIDUAL UNEMPLOYABILITY BENEFIT. THE IN THE BUDGET A PROCESS. THIS WAS PART OF A MENU OF OPPORTUNITIES. THAT WE HAD FOR THINKING HOW WE COULD MAKE THE BUDGET PROCESS BETTER. AS I BEGAN TO LISTEN TO VETERANS AND THEIR CONCERNS AND THOSE IN PARTICULAR, IT WAS CLEAR THIS WOULD BE HURTING VETERANS AND WOULD HURT VETERANS WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE THOSE BENEFITS TAKEN AWAY. I’M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS THIS IS PART OF A PROCESS. WE HAVE TO LOOKING AT WAYS TO DO THINGS BETTER. I’M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT POLICIES THAT HURT VETERANS. SO I WOULD LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN DO THIS BETTER. WE HAVE BUDGET NUMBERS AND TARGETS WE HAVE TO HIT BUT WE SHOULDN’T BE DOING THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE HURTING VETERANS THAT CAN’T AFFORD TO LOSE THESE BENEFITS.
I APPRECIATE HEARING THAT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY VETERANS WOULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS
> THERE ARE 330,000 IN RECEIPT OF I.U. ABOUT 200,000 OF THOSE ARE UNDER THE EDGE OF 60 AND WOULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.
>SENATOR HELLER: IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RETROACTIVE
> IT WOULD HAVE BEEN POINT FORWARD BUT TO INCLUDE ALL VETERANS IN RECEIPT OF I.U. I DON’T BELIEVE WE’D PULL BENEFITS WE DISTRIBUTED
BACK — SENATOR HELLER: BUT IF YOU HAD THE BENEFIT YOU COULD LOSE THE BENEFIT YOU’RE RECEIVING.
>SECRETARY SHULKIN: THAT WAS THE PROPOSAL. BUT WE DO LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS
>BETTER. SENATOR HELLER: I APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERN, BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE AVERAGE IS PER VETERAN, THE AVERAGE INTAKE PER VETERAN?
> AVERAGE PAYMENT? ROUGHLY $1,600. THAT’S ON TOP OF YOU HAVE TO BE RATED BETWEEN 60% TO 100% AND IT TAKES YOU TO TAMPA RARE 100%.16% IS — 60% IS ROUGHLY
>SENATOR HELLER: YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE FINANCIAL BURDEN IT MAY POSE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL. WHAT I’M MOST CONCERNENED ABOUT IS THE LONG-TERM RETIREMENT TESTIMONY THEY MAY HAVE NOT PREPARED ORBEEN PREPARED IF — IN BELIEVING THAT THAT $1,600 MAY BE THERE.
SECRETARY SHULKIN: I THINK THAT’S THE ISSUE. THIS IS WHY WE HAD IDENTIFIED THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY. I THINK IF WE WERE DESIGNING THE SYSTEM FROM THE BEGINNING, WE WOULDN’T HAVE USED UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TO FUND PEOPLE’S RETIREMENT. I THINK THAT WAS THE CONFLICT. BUT THE END RESULT IS, THAT IS THE BENEFIT. TO WITHDRAW THIS BENEFIT FROM PEOPLE WHO RELY ON THAT MONEY IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO DO.
Director Shulkin refers to Unemployability as unemployment insurance. No where in the law is it referred to as unemployment insurance.
38 U.S. Code § 1502 – Determinations with respect to disability
Another prior section 1502, Pub. L. 85-857, , 72 Stat. 1171; Pub. L. 86-721, § 3, , 74 Stat. 820; Pub. L. 87-815, § 7, , 76 Stat. 927; Pub. L. 89-138, § 2(2), , 79 Stat. 578; Pub. L. 90-631, § 1(a), , 82 Stat. 1331; Pub. L. 92-540, title I, § 101(1), title III, § 301, , 86 Stat.
38 CFR 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual.