Recent content by Hawkeye99

So, we can blow $6 Trillion on a Scamdemic, but we have to make retirees pay a monthly fee for Tricare Standard/Select? What a joke!

I went through basically the same thing. Cost me around $2,400. They claimed I was receiving 100% comp for a period when I was actually receiving 30%. I filed a bunch of forms/appeals with the VA telling them how they were wrong. DAV sent them one as well. Turns out the VA never even looked at...

Iowa gives a 100% exemption no matter the value. I believe New Mexico does the same.

Wife & I are in the process of buying a house, so I looked up the property tax exemption. Apparently, it reduces the actual value (up to $200k) of your home by 50%. This would mean approx 20% off our prop taxes for this house. I'm not even sure if one could find a house in Colorado worth $200k...

I guess what I really want to know... should someone that is rated P&T be concerned about the VA caring whether or not he or she sees a doctor on a regular/specific basis? From your initial post, I think no, but from the future examination criteria, I'm not so sure. I stopped using VA healthcare...

So, if at some point, a vet stops seeing the doctor for the condition (no additional medical records), will the VA look at the condition as 'static' since they can't see any evidence or documentation of change?

Do we know how the VA defines "static" and "permanent in character?" What is the difference?

Unless you visit the Denver (Lakewood) VR&E office where they'll tell you that nobody receiving SSDI can use Voc Rehab bennies.

Just in case any of y'all are interested, I watched the Committee on VA hearing earlier today. It started off with the VBA Under Secretary stating that everybody will be eventually be paid correctly sometime in Jan 2020, so I thought we must be good.... But, later he seemed to get a bit...

Well, this is pretty much right on par with how everything else has gone for me with this joke of an organization. Wow! "Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee...

Does this exemption mean that the CH 61/CRDP vet's mil retired income is exempted up to the same dollar amount that the vet is entitled to receive in VA disability compensation?

They did though. I'm just wondering how to fight it. I've decided to use up most of my GI Bill bennies and apply again when that time comes. The VR&E folks I dealt with were saying things completely different when it came to verbally versus in email.

Who does one contact when Voc Rehab denies benefits because one is receiving SSDI?

Sorry I don't have any advice, but I can sympathize with you. I'm going thru something similar with the VA about an incorrect debt related to compensation. They've essentially been ignoring me for almost the last 2 years. Hopefully, someone here will have some useful advice. Good luck! :)

Of course. If it ever does happen; I'm sure there will be quite a bit more public commentary on it prior to the passage of the bill.