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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.
 
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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.
 
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