Endless Obstacles Delay Veteran Benefits

The VA Brush-Off

The Department of Veterans Affairs routinely delays disability claims by wounded soldiers for months and years, often shunting them into homelessness. But there’s a simple way for the government to get disabled veterans the help they deserve. It can trust them. Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 12, 2009 - 10:27 AM PST
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Edited by: Samuel W. Velsor IV - Nov 14, 2009 - 5:05 PM PST
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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Nov. 14, 2009

I think this article is a bit, wordy. But shows how severe the problem is.

I thought the President was going to work on this and he has been in office a year and there is not even any submitted legislation to bring our VA system into standards of the western world it a real true crime, a fraud, a sham, a disgrace. Now what can we do to get Americans to demand action for in the end game it is our fault. I for one have taken this to heart and have written to the White House via their web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) about this - maybe more of you will too???

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by Glenn LaBauve - Nov. 14, 2009

When I first left the Air Force after Vietnam, rhe VA was a place to go to die, that would screw up your earned benefits, would try to deny your VA home lone and make your schooling difficult. Disabilities were automaticly rejected and God help you if you couldn't remember 1 piece of info. MUch has changed in the last 30 years, some of it for the better, but the first answer is still no on disabilities

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