Holt argued that the Board enacted the revisions on the same day that it set the deadline to apply under the old ordinance, thereby creating and taking away a right at the same time. Section 3-3-36 had only one requirement, that a member have a service-related injury. Section 3-3-37 grandfathered members who had submitted an application for service-connected disability as of December 9,1996. Thus, according to Holt, although he qualified under section 3-3-36, it was impossible for him to submit his application timely because the earliest he could have submitted it, even if he had been aware of the changes on December 9,2000, was December 10,1996. The County argued that certain events must occur before an inchoate right vests. Pitts v. City of Richmond, 235 Va. 16, 366 S.E.2d 56 (1988) (<HOLDING>). In the case at hand, filing the application
holding that retirement benefits are accrued benefits under erisa holding railroad retirement benefits are not community property by congressional action holding that an employees claim for breach of a letter agreement was preempted by erisa where the agreement did not specify the amount or other terms of the employees retirement benefits and the court would have to refer to the employers erisagoverned retirement plan to determine the employees retirement benefits and calculate the damages claimed holding that inchoate rights to retirement benefits do not vest until a member qualifies holding that military retirement benefits are current pay and thus significantly different than other retirement benefits