Reserve Personnel Services Branch
RPM-3 manages the Coast Guard incapacitation system for ill and injured reservists and acts as the Coast Guard’s Benefits Issuing Authority (BIA) for medical hold (retention) orders, Active Duty for Health Care (ADHC) orders, and Notices of Eligibility (NOE).
Specifically, RPM-3 is responsible for:
Authorizing medical hold status for members incurring or aggravating an injury, illness or disease while serving on active duty for a period of more than 30 days;
Authorizing Active Duty for Health Care (ADHC) for members incurring or aggravating an injury, illness or disease while serving in a qualifying duty status as described below:
Active duty for a period of 30 days or less;
Inactive Duty Training (IDT); or
Service on Funeral Honors Duty
Authorizing Notice of Eligibility (NOE) for medical treatment/care;
Validate claims for incapacitation pay and forward to PPC(ses) for processing.
Authorizing continued care identified by Post Deployment Health Reassessments (PDHRA);
Ensuring reserve medical cases are properly referred to the Physical Disability Evaluation System (PDES);
Exercising assignment authority for reservists assigned to medical support allowance positions in conjunction with PDES processing; and
Maintaining a system to track incapacitated reservists in accordance with DODI 1241.2, Reserve Component Incapacitation System Management.
Reservists
who are receiving VA disability compensation are not entitled to receive
military pay and allowances (active duty or IDT) at the same time.
Any reservist receiving VA disability compensation must elect to
receive military pay and allowances or VA compensation through annual
submission of a waiver form to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Notice of Waiver of VA Compensation or Pension to Receive Military Pay
and Allowances VA Form
21-8951-2 is used to elect a waiver of VA compensation or military pay
and allowances. VA Form
21-8951-2 must be completed each fiscal year by the member, endorsed by the
member’s unit CO, and submitted to the VA regional office responsible for
the member’s VA claim file.