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[blackbull1970]

A double amputee who served in Iraq is pushing lawmakers to end the 'wounded veterans tax'

Federal policy prevents around 50,000 injured veterans from receiving both their full retirement pay and disability compensation.

By Melanie Zanona
May 26, 2025

A double amputee who served in Iraq is pushing lawmakers to end the 'wounded veterans tax'

Federal policy prevents around 50,000 injured veterans from receiving both their full retirement pay and disability compensation.

www.nbcnews.com

Army veteran Dan Nevins traveled to the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025, to push for legislation that would ensure veterans are able to receive their full retirement pay and disability compensation.​

 

[blackbull1970]

Veterans receiving disability payments might have been underpaid, IG finds

The IG found errors in an automatic calculator that may have been used as far back as 2017 to determine veterans monthly disability checks.

PATTY NIEBERG
MAY 30, 2025

Veterans receiving disability payments might have been underpaid, IG finds

A federal watchdog found errors in an automatic calculator that may have been used as far back as 2017 to determine veterans' benefits.

taskandpurpose.com

 

[blackbull1970]

Veterans fume after VA partially blames them for overpayments it claws back

The VA said veterans who fail to report eligibility changes are part of the problem. But these veterans said they did notify the VA, and it continued overpaying them anyway.

By Melissa Chan
June 1, 2025

Veterans fume after VA partially blames them for overpayments it claws back

The VA said veterans who fail to report eligibility changes are part of the problem. But these veterans said they did notify the VA, and it continued overpaying them anyway.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[SamSneed]

I just bumped my migraines to 50%

Then I told the nurse my dick don’t work for that extra 130

Ima sell dick pills at work lol

100% rating now

 

[blackbull1970]

Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA

Three pieces of legislation are gaining momentum, each crafted to systematically dismantle VA-delivered care under the guise of sympathy for veteran suicide and mental health struggles. These bills could deliver the decisive blow in a long-standing campaign by proponents determined to privatize VA health care, collapsing the system by pulling funding it needs to care for veterans.

Russell Lemle
June 10, 2025

Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA | Military.com

www.military.com

A demonstrator holds a sign at a Unite for Veterans rally, Friday, June 6, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington.​

 

[blackbull1970]

VA Announces $42-Million Boost To Veterans

Last year, as many as 32,882 veterans were experiencing homelessness in the U.S., according to VA data. That is about 5 percent of the entire U.S. homeless population, showing that veterans are significantly overrepresented compared to other categories.

By Giulia Carbonaro
June 12, 2025

VA announces $42-million boost to veterans

The VA has announced new funding for a program trying to help veterans facing or at risk of homelessness.

www.newsweek.com

Trump's VA cut a program that's saving vets' homes. Even Republicans have questions

Last month, out of fear of the potential cost, the VA abruptly did away with this safety net. It was the latest development in a VA mortgage saga that has whiplashed veterans between various enacted and cancelled programs and left thousands in fear of losing their homes. There are about 80,000 vets in the U.S. behind on their mortgages and heading toward foreclosure, according to data from ICE Mortgage Technology.

By Chris Arnold, Quil Lawrence
JUNE 19, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5400980/va-loans-veterans-mortgage-relief-republicans

Navy veteran Matthew Kelly's home in San Antonio, Texas. Kelly was left stranded when the VA abruptly ended a mortgage program that's been helping save thousands of vets homes.​

 

[blackbull1970]

VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination

Under federal law, eligible veterans must be given hospital care and services, and the revised VA hospital rules still instruct medical staff that they cannot discriminate against veterans on the basis of race, color, religion and sex. But language within VA hospital bylaws requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated from these bylaws, raising questions about whether individual workers could now be free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not expressly protected by federal law.

Aaron Glantz
18 Jun 2025

VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination

Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’

www.theguardian.com

 

[blackbull1970]

Veterans Affairs dramatically scales back layoffs to less than half of initial plan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has abandoned plans to cut more than 80,000 employees, scaling back that number to just under 30,000 after a massive outcry from veterans, advocate groups and lawmakers and an exodus of individuals from the agency.

BY ELLEN MITCHELL
07/07/25

Veterans Affairs dramatically scales back layoffs to less than half of initial plan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has abandoned plans to cut more than 80,000 employees, scaling back that number to just under 30,000 after a massive outcry from veterans, advocate groups an…

thehill.com

 

[blackbull1970]

Bill would let military retirees and fully disabled veterans keep contributing to military retirement accounts

By LINDA F. HERSEY
STARS AND STRIPES
August 26, 2025

Bill would let military retirees and fully disabled veterans keep contributing to military retirement accounts

Legislation introduced by Rep. Jen Kiggans, a former Navy pilot, would allow retiring service members to keep contributing to Thrift Savings Plans.

www.stripes.com

Service members retiring from the military will for the first time be allowed to keep contributing to their military-sponsored retirement accounts — known as Thrift Savings Plans — under legislation introduced by Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., a former Navy pilot.

The Financial Opportunities for Retirees and Warriors Advancing Retirement Development — or FORWARD Act — also would let veterans who are 100% disabled send a portion of their monthly benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to Thrift Savings Plans that they opened during military service, according to the bill.

Under the law now, veterans can keep their Thrift Savings Plans, also known as TSP accounts, after they leave the military. But they cannot continue putting aside a portion of their income into the retirement account…

 

[blackbull1970]

VA move to pay nearly $2 billion for private health providers inflames partisan debate over ‘privatizing’ veterans’ care

By Brian Todd
August 28, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/politics/va-private-health-care-move

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate | Ukraine news - #Mezha

The US Department of Veterans Affairs redirected nearly $2 billion to private healthcare providers, sparking political debate over veteran care quality and privatization concerns.

mezha.net

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate
The Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., pictured on June 21, 2013. Charles Dharapak/AP/File

As stated by CNN

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told CNN that nearly $2 billion from the VA health care system’s budget was reallocated to pay for the services of private medical providers. This redirection accounts for about 5% of the overall budget designated for private care of veterans.

According to a source on Capitol Hill, this is the largest step in years toward engaging the private sector. It was carried out without an official request for congressional approval, as is usually done by previous administrations, including during the first term of the Trump administration…

 

[BlackGoku]

VA move to pay nearly $2 billion for private health providers inflames partisan debate over ‘privatizing’ veterans’ care

By Brian Todd
August 28, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/politics/va-private-health-care-move

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate | Ukraine news - #Mezha

The US Department of Veterans Affairs redirected nearly $2 billion to private healthcare providers, sparking political debate over veteran care quality and privatization concerns.

mezha.net

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate
The Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., pictured on June 21, 2013. Charles Dharapak/AP/File

As stated by CNN

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told CNN that nearly $2 billion from the VA health care system’s budget was reallocated to pay for the services of private medical providers. This redirection accounts for about 5% of the overall budget designated for private care of veterans.

According to a source on Capitol Hill, this is the largest step in years toward engaging the private sector. It was carried out without an official request for congressional approval, as is usually done by previous administrations, including during the first term of the Trump administration…

Absolutely disagree with this...anytime shareholders control something that should be a right, you run into problems

 

[blackbull1970]

New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest

Aaron Glantz
Aug 2025

New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest

Trump administration to end nearly all abortions even though third of female veterans are sexual assault survivors

www.theguardian.com

Doctors at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would be barred from performing abortions, even in cases of rape and incest, under new rules proposed by the Trump administration.

The draft regulations, which also forbid providers from counseling female veterans about terminating a pregnancy, have generated nearly 20,000 comments in the federal register from conservative activists, abortion rights supporters and female veterans, many of them survivors of sexual assault…

 

[HNIC]

New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest

Aaron Glantz
Aug 2025

New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest

Trump administration to end nearly all abortions even though third of female veterans are sexual assault survivors

www.theguardian.com

Doctors at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would be barred from performing abortions, even in cases of rape and incest, under new rules proposed by the Trump administration.

The draft regulations, which also forbid providers from counseling female veterans about terminating a pregnancy, have generated nearly 20,000 comments in the federal register from conservative activists, abortion rights supporters and female veterans, many of them survivors of sexual assault…

Trump is the worse, I'm assuming he is doing this via executive order.

 

[blackbull1970]

Hundreds of VA doctors and caregivers warn that cutbacks, policy changes threaten veterans’ care

By Brian Todd
September 25, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/politics/veterans-affairs-doctors-warning-letter

…In a mass letter sent Wednesday to VA Secretary Doug Collins, the agency’s inspector general and congressional leaders, obtained by CNN, the group warns that workforce reductions and moves to outsource care to private sector doctors and healthcare facilities will harm veterans.

“We write to raise urgent concerns about proposed policies which, in addition to ones already enacted, will undermine VA’s healthcare system, overwhelm VA’s budget, and negatively affect the lives of all veterans. We have witnessed these ongoing harms and can provide evidence and testimony of their impacts,” the group wrote.

More than 160 doctors, psychologists, nurses, researchers and others signed the letter initially. Since the group sent the letter, the number of signees has grown to 350, according to one of the letter’s organizers. More than 25 doctors signed the letter by name, and many others signed it anonymously...

 

[blackbull1970]

How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls

By Craig Whitlock, Lisa Rein and Caitlin Gilbert
October 6, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/veterans-affairs-disability-claims-fraud/

Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims — including cases of brazen fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars — that are exploiting the country’s sacred commitment to compensate those harmed in the line of duty, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Taxpayers will spend roughly $193 billion this year for the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate about 6.9 million disabled veterans on the presumption that their ability to work is impaired. VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate.

Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss, jock itch and toenail fungus. 1
About 556,000 veterans receive disability benefits for eczema, 332,000 for hemorrhoids, 110,000 for benign skin growths, 81,000 for acne and 74,000 for varicose veins, the most recently available figures from VA show. Individual payouts for such mundane conditions vary, but collectively they cost billions of dollars per year.

In contrast, far fewer veterans receive compensation for certain combat-related injuries. About 10,900 service members who have suffered “severe” or “penetrating” brain injuries since 2000 are eligible for benefits. Fewer than 1,700 receive disability payments for losing limbs during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...

Army soldiers watch as trash burns in a pit near a base in Afghanistan in 2012. A 2022 law, the Pact Act, makes it easier for veterans to claim benefits based on exposure to airborne toxic substances in war zones.​

 

[Moving Target]

How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls

By Craig Whitlock, Lisa Rein and Caitlin Gilbert
October 6, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/veterans-affairs-disability-claims-fraud/

Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims — including cases of brazen fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars — that are exploiting the country’s sacred commitment to compensate those harmed in the line of duty, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Taxpayers will spend roughly $193 billion this year for the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate about 6.9 million disabled veterans on the presumption that their ability to work is impaired. VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate.

Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss, jock itch and toenail fungus. 1
About 556,000 veterans receive disability benefits for eczema, 332,000 for hemorrhoids, 110,000 for benign skin growths, 81,000 for acne and 74,000 for varicose veins, the most recently available figures from VA show. Individual payouts for such mundane conditions vary, but collectively they cost billions of dollars per year.

In contrast, far fewer veterans receive compensation for certain combat-related injuries. About 10,900 service members who have suffered “severe” or “penetrating” brain injuries since 2000 are eligible for benefits. Fewer than 1,700 receive disability payments for losing limbs during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...

Army soldiers watch as trash burns in a pit near a base in Afghanistan in 2012. A 2022 law, the Pact Act, makes it easier for veterans to claim benefits based on exposure to airborne toxic substances in war zones.​

tell these people they can go etadik.....bc so many veterans are NOT getting all of their service connected disability. i would wager there are more untreated and undiagnosed conditions out here than not....also, most of those so called minor treatable afflictions are either a direct result of service conditions or secondary derivative condition to other conditions. miss me with that nonsense.
i am still trying to treat certain conditions from my service that "they" arent connected but are ...esp my PTSD. its a jacked up system but its what we got....but ill be damned if i let anybody disparage the veteran community for whats been paid for in blood sweat tears and sacrifice. FUQEM.
dont want to take care of the veterans then stop sending them to war.

 

[blackbull1970]

Veteran to become the first to receive new ‘hero’ bionic arm inspired by ‘Call of Duty’

By Tom Bevan, SWNS
Oct. 1, 2025

Veteran to become the first to receive new ‘hero’ bionic arm inspired by ‘Call of Duty’

The rugged new limb, described as the world’s stongest bionic arm, has been developed by UK robotics firm Open Bionics with a design inspired by the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 game.

nypost.com

A female US Army vet who nearly died in a grenade attack in Iraq has become the first in the world to be fitted with a new ‘hero’ bionic arm – inspired by Call of Duty.

Danielle Green lost her left arm while serving in Baghdad 20 years ago and has struggled with every day tasks ever since.

But now, in a world-first, the 48-year-old says she wants to inspire fellow vets and amputees – and finally feels ‘complete’ after being fitted with the Hero RGD...

Danielle’s Hero RGD can lift up to 35 kilograms.

The new device includes custom covers co-designed with the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit that helps veterans.

The arm was unveiled during the Call of Duty Endowment Bowl VI. showcase in Las Vegas.
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[RUDY RAYYY MO]

tell these people they can go etadik.....bc so many veterans are NOT getting all of their service connected disability. i would wager there are more untreated and undiagnosed conditions out here than not....also, most of those so called minor treatable afflictions are either a direct result of service conditions or secondary derivative condition to other conditions. miss me with that nonsense.
i am still trying to treat certain conditions from my service that "they" arent connected but are ...esp my PTSD. its a jacked up system but its what we got....but ill be damned if i let anybody disparage the veteran community for whats been paid for in blood sweat tears and sacrifice. FUQEM.
dont want to take care of the veterans then stop sending them to war.

This part and Google who now owns Washington Post now that should tell you all you need to know . Yes there are fraud cases, but let's talk about the millions of veterans that dont file for disability due to stigmas

 

[TIMEISMONEY]

Oh them niggas gave me 70% for adjustment disorder increase and I’m still not at 100%, sitting on 90%, I need 50% more to get it smh

What is that

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

Oh them niggas gave me 70% for adjustment disorder increase and I’m still not at 100%, sitting on 90%, I need 50% more to get it smh

Its a dirty game. I was at 80, submitted sleep apnea claim , got approved at 50% which only increased me to 90%. . I thought for sure apnea was going to get me 100. But I ain't done yet gone submit another claim

 

[Z MONSTER]

Veteran to become the first to receive new ‘hero’ bionic arm inspired by ‘Call of Duty’

By Tom Bevan, SWNS
Oct. 1, 2025

Veteran to become the first to receive new ‘hero’ bionic arm inspired by ‘Call of Duty’

The rugged new limb, described as the world’s stongest bionic arm, has been developed by UK robotics firm Open Bionics with a design inspired by the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 game.

nypost.com

A female US Army vet who nearly died in a grenade attack in Iraq has become the first in the world to be fitted with a new ‘hero’ bionic arm – inspired by Call of Duty.

Danielle Green lost her left arm while serving in Baghdad 20 years ago and has struggled with every day tasks ever since.

But now, in a world-first, the 48-year-old says she wants to inspire fellow vets and amputees – and finally feels ‘complete’ after being fitted with the Hero RGD...

Danielle’s Hero RGD can lift up to 35 kilograms.

The new device includes custom covers co-designed with the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit that helps veterans.

The arm was unveiled during the Call of Duty Endowment Bowl VI. showcase in Las Vegas.
​

Beautiful sister, RAW.
On the real, I need to reapply for the pack act. I was in desert shield/storm and breath all those chemicals. When I first applied through the VA I got a letter from a local doctor soliciting me. I ignored the letter because I though it was a scam and the VA denied me because I didn't respond.

 

[SamSneed]

What is that

It’s a mental health claim

The ringing in my ears has caused me to have physical and mental problems

Lack of sleep, irritability, hypertension,

VA Disability Rating for Adjustment Disorder | CCK Law

Many veterans are affected by adjustment disorder after leaving military service. Your VA rating for the disorder depends on the severity of your symptoms.

cck-law.com

This site has all the info needed for claims

 

[SamSneed]

Get 130 extra a month for Ed, tell them your dick don’t work

You can’t get hard and nut, that it’s frustrating,

Your body pain makes it hard to focus, your thoughts are everywhere

 

[blackbull1970]

NAVY Vet Says VA Cut Her Disability Check In Half Over Job She Never Had
October 8, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs cut a local veteran’s disability check because she was working a full-time job.

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[kesq]

Is there a one stop shopping organization that will just handle this shit for me? My time is tight and I don't mind giving up a bit of the cash I receive.

 

[blackbull1970]

Government shutdown impacting Veterans Affairs. Details on benefits, medical care, more.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' services are limited as thousands of its employees have been furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown.

Melina Khan
USA TODAY
October 14, 2025

Government shutdown impacting Veterans Affairs. Details on benefits, medical care, more.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been impacted by the government shutdown. Here's what to know about benefits, medical care and more.

www.usatoday.com

…Some VA services, including compensation and pension benefits, are not impacted. Other areas, like transition program assistance, have ceased during the shutdown.

VA Secretary Doug Collins told Georgia radio station AccessWDUN on Oct. 10 that most of the affected services have to do with the agency's outreach efforts...

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

I just bumped my migraines to 50%

Then I told the nurse my dick don’t work for that extra 130

Ima sell dick pills at work lol

100% rating now

Put me on game on the erectile dysfunction., I've been thinking about pursuing it ...pause

 

[SamSneed]

Put me on game on the erectile dysfunction., I've been thinking about pursuing it ...pause

You have to claim it

Doc will ask you some very straight forward questions

Like can you nut, and how many times

I pretty much said I can’t get hard and nut, the pain in my body doesn’t allow me.

Make sure to connect it with your existing claims like ringing in ear

 

[blackbull1970]

How VA Cuts Damage Women Veterans

“A system dedicated to veterans has to understand what it means to be a woman veteran and what issues women veterans deal with,” Kyleanne Hunter, the CEO of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) told the Prospect.

BY SUZANNE GORDON
OCTOBER 15, 2025

How VA Cuts Damage Women Veterans

The challenges that these military members face merit more focused attention. Instead, vital services like mental health care face devastating cuts.

prospect.org

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

You have to claim it

Doc will ask you some very straight forward questions

Like can you nut, and how many times

I pretty much said I can’t get hard and nut, the pain in my body doesn’t allow me.

Make sure to connect it with your existing claims like ringing in ear

I'm rated for Back and knee pain, I will claim it secondary to those or anxiety. Appreciate it

 

[SamSneed]

I'm rated for Back and knee pain, I will claim it secondary to those or anxiety. Appreciate it

Did you claim adjustment disorder?

 

[blackbull1970]

Veteran pushes VA to provide disability payments, health coverage for Gulf War illness


By LINDA F. HERSEY STARS AND STRIPES
October 20, 2025

Veteran pushes VA to provide disability payments, health coverage for Gulf War illness

A Gulf War veteran is urging the VA to “act swiftly” to include Gulf War illness as a medical condition with a disability rating and benefits.

www.stripes.com

A Gulf War veteran is formally requesting the Department of Veterans Affairs add Gulf War illness to the list of service-connected medical conditions that qualify veterans for monthly, tax-free disability compensation and enrollment in VA health care.

The request by Ronald Brown, a toxic wounds consultant with Vietnam Veterans of America, follows a recent decision by the Centers for Disease Control to officially recognize Gulf War illness as a legitimate medical condition affecting tens of thousands of former service members deployed to the Persian Gulf more than 30 years ago.

Brown submitted a letter to Margarita Devlin, principal deputy undersecretary for benefits, urging the VA to “act swiftly” to include Gulf War illness as a medical condition with a disability rating and benefits specific to the severity of an individual’s ailment…

Mike Jarrett, an Army veteran, served in the Persian Gulf War from 1990 to 1991. Jarrett said he developed several medical conditions during his deployment that continue today. “I didn’t ask until I needed help. But I was often told it was in my mind,” said Jarrett, who is 100% disabled from Gulf War illness. He is shown riding aboard a landing craft utility boat in the Persian Gulf.​

 

[blackbull1970]

Thousands of vets saddled with false criminal histories, lawsuit says

Titling, The term sounds nonthreatening enough. But in the military, “titling” isn’t about taking ownership of a car or property. It’s what happens when a service member’s name is simply listed as the “subject” in a military criminal investigative report. “Titling does not mean an individual has been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime,” a legal assistance document on the Army’s website explains.

By Rachel Fobar, The War Horse
Oct 23, 2025

Thousands of vets saddled with false criminal histories, lawsuit says

A Texas mom and National Guard member is suing the Army to clear her name — and upend the military justice system, The War Horse reports.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[DC_Dude]

 

[HNIC]

The only reason I go to the VA website is to check my meds, confirm appointments and message my doctor.