Accession Number:

ADA561883

Title:

Compensating Wounded Warriors: An Analysis of Injury, Labor Market Earnings, and Disability Compensation Among Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Heaton, Paul
• Loughran, David S.
• Miller, Amalia R.

Report Date:

2012-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

115.0

Abstract:

Nearly a decade of operational combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has focused attention on meeting the needs of military service members, especially those injured in combat, following deployment. Two recent commissions the President s Commission on Care for America s Returning Wounded Warriors 2007 and the Veterans Disability Benefits Commission 2007 have recommended fundamental changes in how DoD and the VA evaluate, treat, compensate, and otherwise support injured service members and their families. To address this continuing issue, the President directed the Secretary of Defense to examine compensation benefits available to wounded warriors, caregivers, and survivors of those fallen service members as part of the 11th QRMC. In response to a request from the 11th QRMC, RAND performed the first comprehensive, quantitative assessment of how injury sustained while deployed in support of OEFOIF affects subsequent labor market outcomes and the extent to which retirement and disability payments received from DoD, the VA, and SSA compensate for earnings losses attributable to injury. The findings of that assessment are presented in this monograph.

Descriptors:

• *AFGHANISTAN
• *COMPENSATION
• *IRAQ
• *MILITARY OPERATIONS
• *PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
• *VETERANS(MILITARY PERSONNEL)
• *WARFARE
• *WOUNDS AND INJURIES
• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
• DEPLOYMENT
• FAMILY MEMBERS
• MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)

Subject Categories:

• Personnel Management and Labor Relations
• Medicine and Medical Research
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE