Outside of those two worthy organizations who "really get it"...zero interest among Colorado's citizens for the needs of the state's totally and permanently disabled veterans of honorable service who are rated "TDIU."
Not your problem, right? You're probably not a vet although perhaps the child or grandchild of one. You're probably not the father of a young man or woman in service. So...simply not your problem.
TDIU veterans make up about 30-40% of Colorado's totally disabled veterans. VA has two categories: 100% rated, for vets whose injuries are typical for the type injury suffered, and TDIU, for vets whose injuries are worse than typical for the type injury suffered.
Colorado permits the 100% rated vets our too-small partial property tax exemption, and specifically refuses it to TDIU veterans.
Are these veterans any different than each other? Yes, because the TDIU vet is specifically evaluated as having a worse-case type injury rather than "typical," and is thereby totally and permanently disabled and never able to work again.
Why do we treat them differently? Ask your legislator if they can explain...I can't. I care, but only a rare handful in the legislature seem to care.
Not their problem. They really don't care.
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