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Thanks for the information from you all. My Dad is a Civilian in the Federal Govt of the USA and also a military retiree. For some reason he thought he could try to get his retirement waived of having to pay income taxes when he goes out on a disability retirement. I am trying to find out if anyone has heard of this. I did not think it was possible. He would probably have continued to work for years more if it weren't for the PD. As it is, he is 55 and has the years to go out on regular retirement, but it is more beneficial for him to go out on a disability retirement. Since, he probably won't be able to pick up another job or continue to work as healthy retirees many times do, I think that he and others like you all should get a break on income taxes. Just my thoughts. I guess I am just trying to explain it more, in case someone out there has ideas. From what I can tell, his disability retirement income will be taxed like any other retirement income. Thanks for your prior and future comments, Jen, a CPA and Dad w/ PD 55/39 -----Original Message----- From: Hawkins, Darwin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 2:17 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Disability Retirement Pay and Taxes You are mixing two things here. As I understant it, and I may be wrong, if a person is collecting disability income, whether company funded or individually, the income is not taxable up until the person reaches retirement age. At retirement the disability income stops when the retirement income starts and the retirement income is taxable. The logic is that if you are retired, you wouldn't be working, disabled or not. > ---------- > From: Fleming, Jennifer[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:21 AM > Subject: Disability Retirement Pay and Taxes > > My Dad is planning his retirement. He mentioned the other day that he was > going to try to get his disability retirement income to be waived of > income > taxes. I have never heard of this before. Have any of you on the list > been > successful in getting a waiver on paying taxes on your disability > retirement > income? I told him that I would run it by you all and find out. Thanks > much, > > Jen, Dad w/ PD 55/39 >