Veteran disability payments rising as number of veterans falls
May 12th, 2008From the Associated Press in the Kansas City Star, the Kaiser Network:
The U.S. will spend an estimated $59 billion or more annually in 2033 to compensate disabled veterans, compared with $29 billion annually currently, according to internal Department of Veterans Affairs documents obtained by the Associated Press, the AP/Kansas City Star reports.
… The decline in the total number of veterans is attributed to older veterans from World War II and Korea dying. However, the total number of disabled veterans has increased 25% since 2001 to 2.9 million, compared with a 4% increase during the six-year period before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, according to data from the VA and U.S. Census Bureau. Advances in medical care are helping injured veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars stay alive after “devastating injuries” that likely would have killed veterans from earlier wars, according to the AP/Star.
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