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VA halts implementation of controversial disability rating rule following backlash

The VA will continue collecting public comment on the rule but it “will not be enforced at any time in the future," VA Secretary Doug Collins said.

www.navytimes.com

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Not sure why veterans were upset by this. Seems like a common sense change and I was all for it. If your meds make you better than why should you collect money for being disabled?

When I was last working, I was shocked and disappointed at how many Vets were trying to get disability payments. It has become a game to see how much welfare these clowns could collect, there were a couple that deserved help or compensation, but most were welfare rats.

Fatrat said:

When I was last working, I was shocked and disappointed at how many Vets were trying to get disability payments. It has become a game to see how much welfare these clowns could collect, there were a couple that deserved help or compensation, but most were welfare rats.

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They're herding us into that.

I fell down boom-boom on a ship. During a shipboard fire. No, we weren't attacked - a storeroom full of cardboard packaging, waiting until we were in international waters to be float-tested (our term for it) caught fire. Long story how, but no mystery.

I had to climb a vertical ladder on a bulkhead with a two-inch fire hose on my shoulder, to get to an opening to a void about 20 feet above.

And some boot-camp charged the hose while I was still getting into position. Misunderstood his instruction.

The nozzle was closed but the hose stiffened. I grabbed onto it, not wanting the brass nozzle to hit me in the head, and instead, down I came off that wall-ladder, ten feet to a steel deck. Broke my clavicle.

On discharge, two years later, I was rated at 0-percent disability. That has meaning - it's recognizing the service-related injury but deeming it non-functional.

Well...off decades later to the last year. I'm needing VA accessibility. As a Persian Gulf vet, I have the bottom tier accessibility - below disabled veterans, below careerists, below the pre-1985 non-career enlistees. Subject to an income/assets test.

An eligibility counselor suggests I go through the process to have my disability status re-examined - and perhaps gain a higher status of eligibility. No cost, except the time. Yah, sure. Bring it on.

I do so; get the outside medical evaluator's examination, and then, within two months, I start seeing MONEY pop into my bank account!

Two weeks after the first payment (a largeish lump sum) I get an award letter. MONTHLY CASH PAYMENTS. I had NO IDEA I'd even be CONSIDERED for that - it wasn't on the radar.

It isn't much, but every little bit helps, now. I'm rated at 20 percent, which gains me a couple tiers on the eligibility ladder and removes the income tests.

But I absolutely fail to see how this benefits THEM...the SYSTEM...unless (and of course it is) it is a plan to put us all under their CONTROL. Your Disability Payments are conditional on your having Approved Political Views, and that you not spread Disinformation or Non-Recognized Truths.

1984 style.

Eventually they plan to take it away. Especially since I have just about enough resources to pretend I can be an independent thinker.

I am 10% disabled since 1975 and you can KMA.

foolsgold said:

I am 10% disabled since 1975 and you can KMA.

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Gonorrhea or diabetes...Seriously, if you got hurt, fine you get paid, but claiming disability when you can work for a living is insulting to those of us working. Enough people on the cart, leaves no one to pull the cart...

I got a computer science degree with help from the GI bill, worked my whole life and retired at 66.

Fatrat said:

Gonorrhea or diabetes...Seriously, if you got hurt, fine you get paid, but claiming disability when you can work for a living is insulting to those of us working. Enough people on the cart, leaves no one to pull the cart...

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You can earn about 100k a year tax free on disability. SSDI and VA if you max them both out. There are peeps defrauding the system for sure but there is a big push to root them out right now too. If they get caught they have to pay back everything as well as do some time in club fed.
I think the VA fraud is a very small percentage versus some of the other shit I see out there. SSI and welfare and EBT scams. Bitches on the debt scams talk about finding the right counselor and sleeping with him to get a nice bump in beanies. SSI your only allowed like 2 k in your bank accounts or your benefits get reduced. However there is a way to set up another account to get up to 100k in it and it's exempt.

Then we have the illegals and or refugees coming in and getting max payouts from SSDI and they never worked in this country 1 day in their lives. 3950 a month. Then they tell us SS is running out of money.

Tons of videos out there of the blacks just walking into stores loading up their carts and walking right out. If they try and stop them they really chimp out like your taking away some entitlement program from them. It is truly insane out there.

Cigarlover said:

You can earn about 100k a year tax free on disability. SSDI and VA if you max them both out. There are peeps defrauding the system for sure but there is a big push to root them out right now too. If they get caught they have to pay back everything as well as do some time in club fed.
I think the VA fraud is a very small percentage versus some of the other shit I see out there. SSI and welfare and EBT scams. Bitches on the debt scams talk about finding the right counselor and sleeping with him to get a nice bump in beanies. SSI your only allowed like 2 k in your bank accounts or your benefits get reduced. However there is a way to set up another account to get up to 100k in it and it's exempt.

Then we have the illegals and or refugees coming in and getting max payouts from SSDI and they never worked in this country 1 day in their lives. 3950 a month. Then they tell us SS is running out of money.

Tons of videos out there of the blacks just walking into stores loading up their carts and walking right out. If they try and stop them they really chimp out like your taking away some entitlement program from them. It is truly insane out there.

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I don't like it one bit, but we're at the mercy of the idiots in Washington DC.

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