i want to see a nationwide rally to call out the VA offices for not processing veterans claim forms and using all kinds of unfair tactics in trying to discourage, or to make veterans misss the many deadlines they set on us while they themselves don't have or follow any deadlines and are unfairly denying compensation claims.
this "veterans day", wednesday, november 11, 2009, lets all agree to rally in front of our local VA offices hopefully with our representatives and demand that the VA start to process our claim forms within a reasonable time and to stop their unfair tactics of purposely losing our records and trying to make us miss deadlines inorder to unfairly close our claim. please let everyone know about this rally for veterans for this veterans day, we need to all come together and help each other.
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Originally posted by Duster6: Sorry but I will be in DC on Veterans day setting up my protest of Pelosi still in office.
perfect! your protest in DC could also include calling out the VA on their unfair tactics and treatment of how poorly they are handling veterans compensation claims. there is compensation for civilians of the of 9/11 terrorist attack and now we need to help out our veterans. maybe those wall street ceo's who are still getting millions of dollars in bonus could forgo some of their multi-million dollar bonuses to go towards a compensation fund for the veteran's?
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The process is slow and there is a Hugh backlog, but many of the Veterans I work with in the Veterans forums here will tell you that when you put your case together and prove to the VA that you have a disability covered by the CFR that has a nexus in the military, you have a pretty could chance of receiving the compensation you deserve. I can say that from my own first hand experience over the last 30 + years. I have received 2 increases from my original claim, that was handled post service.
If people would quit filing BS claims, the backlog and bottlenecks wouldn't exist.
Do you have ANY idea how many people here have claims in for tinitus? Or skin problems? Or hemherroids or hangnails or PTSD from a car accident when they were 15?
Do you know how many served 6 months and were booted out as "Unfit for service" with an Other-Than-Honorable discharge, requiring the VA to see them?
The most pressing problem the VA faces are "veterans" trying to suck off the government's teet that have no right to do so. They clog the arteries of the system for those that really need the help and earned their benefits.
It's not that there is no God or that He isn't listening. You're probably just asking the wrong questions.
we're all veterans if we served and didn't end up with a dishonorable discharge and if we look out for each other we wouldn't have homeless!!!! vets and vets from vietnam!!!! still getting their benefits they earned!!!! upgraded still to this day, it's just standard operating procedures for the military to deny wrong doing and deny a majority of claims so as to keep within their budget.
Originally posted by scpd3045: Our VA center provides excellent care and services. Count me out.
maybe the VA can look at how the VA center in your area runs and use their system for the rest of the VA centers, cause i really can't say the same for VA center in northern new jersey, and the VA inspector general found so much inproper handling of veterans claim forms in the new york area that they had to replace managment there and probably the same thing of mishandling veterans claims is going on at the VA center in my area.
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Originally posted by FollowMeInfantry: If people would quit filing BS claims, the backlog and bottlenecks wouldn't exist.
Do you have ANY idea how many people here have claims in for tinitus? Or skin problems? Or hemherroids or hangnails or PTSD from a car accident when they were 15?
Do you know how many served 6 months and were booted out as "Unfit for service" with an Other-Than-Honorable discharge, requiring the VA to see them?
The most pressing problem the VA faces are "veterans" trying to suck off the government's teet that have no right to do so. They clog the arteries of the system for those that really need the help and earned their benefits.
the politicians are still to this day trying to figure out what constitues a vietnam veteran!!!!!!!!!!!! whether they were "boots on the ground" or not and denying the navy and air force veterans because they didn't have "their! boots on the ground" and you want to say that veterans don't deserve benefits???????????????? wake up cause i was infantry too and i wouldn't follow anyone who doesn't care about his fellow veterans your one of the reasons that there are homeless veterans cause you don't seem to care about your fellow veterans.
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i know that the VA doesn't give benefits to those who don't deserve it, but there are so many who do deserve the benefits and are not being treated right by the VA. did we not learn anything about how bad the vietnam veterans were treated and now desert storm veterans are still trying to find out what has made them sick as it has made me and i'm just sick and tired of being kicked to the curb for an illness that i still am not sure what it is but i know that i have all kinds of nerve problems and mental problems which i didn't have prior to becoming ill from desert storm immunization shots.
i think that rallies show that there is a problem and the bigger the rally of more of "we the people" the more chance that we will be heard. for example the tea partyer's who protested the government spending this summer, their fairly large numbers made congress slow down and re-think their strategies and not make the mistake that Bush/Cheney made of ignoring "we the people" and think that we are not paying attention and watching and we wont speak out when we don't like the legislation if it isn't done with common sense and fairness in mind.
