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How to Recoup Taxes Paid on Disability Severance pay From the Armed Forces IRS publications 17 (Your Federal Income Tax) & 525 (Taxable & Non-taxable Income, page 17) both state that “if you receive a lump-sum disability severance payment and are later awarded VA disability benefits, exclude 100% of the severance benefit from your income.” But neither publication says how. "Many medically discharged vets, including some good friends of mine, don't know they are entitled to get the taxes back if they get a VA rating," says Dorothy, the author of this extremely important USVI veteran document. In this informative USVI document, composed by a discharged veteran of recent years, discharged veterans awarded VA disability benefits will learn how to recoup money paid as taxes on disability severance income. Read it here on USVI: Click Here

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New information about Agent Orange See: Oct 2007 issue Agent Orange Review; the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine(IOM), just released their most recent congressionally mandated report, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2006". Web site is: www.VA.gov/AgentOrange, also see: www.VA.gov/EnvironAgents (click on "Agent Orange"). The IOM site to read he release and report is web site: www.nap.edu. The VA newsletter contains much information and Contact information.

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