Rep. Dan Boren pushing Guard, Reserve early payments

// March 25th, 2009 // News

WASHINGTON — Rep. Dan Boren is seeking earlier retirement benefits for National Guard and Reserve members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Boren, D-Muskogee, and Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, have introduced a bill to let all Guard and Reserve members who served in the conflicts get retirement 90 days early for every 90 days they were deployed. Currently, most Guard and Reserve members begin collecting those benefits when they’re 60. Under the proposal, they could collect them at 59 if deployed for a year in Iraq or Afghanistan. Congress already has approved early benefits for Guard and Reserve members sent to Iraq after January 2008. Boren and Wilson said that wasn’t fair to about 600,000 mobilized

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