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As your constituent and a member of Veterans-For-Change, an advocacy group for Veterans rights, benefits, and treatment, my co-members and I would like to bring to your attention the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day. President Obama has clearly stated, “Whether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our responsibility to deliver the benefits and care that you earned. That’s why I’ve pledged to build nothing less than a 21st-century VA”.
August 31st, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
Here is my thought; if we as disabled vets formed a consortium to investigate and report on the medical value of the by-products of Hemp and the industrial production of “usable products” we could get a ground floor hold on a contract to supply the entire VA system with medical high grade marijuana (when the Federal Laws that inhibit are changed).
August 17th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
- Under the Bush-Cheney administration the U.S. Army saw 100s of discharges for personality disorder that should have been diagnosed PTSD. Army still denies the charge that has veteran advocates ridiculing Army brass. Sen. Kit Bond, a Missouri Republican, wants the Pentagon to explain why the number of these discharges doubled between 2006 and 2009 and [...]
August 16th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
- From Answers About Medicare: Part 5, By JENNIFER SARANOW SCHULTZ in the NYT – Question: What about the interplay between veterans benefits and Medicare? Should I take Medicare if I am receiving V.A. benefits? Answer: Generally, if you have veterans benefits, you should also enroll in Medicare Part A and Part B to guarantee [...]
August 8th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
- Congressman Glenn Nye Hears Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) – Six months after government investigators found systemic fraud in a contract set-aside program for small businesses owned by disabled veterans, ineligible companies are still getting millions of dollars in federal contracts under the program. That testimony came from government and private-sector witnesses at a [...]
August 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
- At a hearing last week, experts told Congress that VA staff were “intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans” – by Nora Eisenberg at AlterNet Despite the recently announced intention by Secretary Eric Shinseki and his Chief of Staff, John Gingrich, to change the “culture” of VA, the agency is in the grips [...]
August 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
- An environmentally sensitive politician from the GOP steps up to expose Irvine’s Toxic Cocktail – (SALEM, Ore.) – Never believe there isn’t reason for hope. The old Marine Corps air base in Orange County, El Toro, is a huge political liability, that isn’t necessarily a big secret, but new attention is being drawn to [...]
July 30th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
By Hope Yen WASHINGTON – Patients treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics will be able to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where it’s legal, according to new federal guidelines. The directive from the Veterans Affairs Department in the coming week is intended to clarify current policy that says veterans can be denied [...]
July 25th, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
- New Online Medical Claims System Launches This Year, Agent Orange Presumptives Get First System Use - From the VA: VA plans to develop a fully automated, online system for handling Veterans’ disability compensation claims by the end of this year. More than a simple digitization of existing paper-based claims, the new system is part of VA’s [...]
July 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Benefits,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
Says Colonel Dan Cedusky’s Vets’ Issues: ”Veterans already knew this … now if someone would please tell the VA rating people.” By Kelly Kennedy in the Army Times After looking at 10 years’ worth of cancer data, researchers at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center found that service members tend to have higher rates of melanoma, brain, non-Hodgkin [...]
July 21st, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
via mal contends - Servicemen and women take an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, but their word on how they’re doing afterwards is not taken at face value – Madison, Wisconsin – One of my local dailies, the Wisconsin State Journal, leads with a decent piece on the new PTSD rules. Here again is [...]
July 19th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
- New Regulations on PTSD Claims Quick Facts: This new rule is for Veterans of any era. The new rule will apply to claims: o received by VA on or after July 13, 2010; o received before July 13, 2010 but not yet decided by a VA regional office; o appealed to the Board of [...]
July 12th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
From the White House: How Affordable Care Act Helps Veterans By Darienne M. Page The health care debate featured no shortage of rumors designed to misinform the American people about the Affordable Care Act. And while the debate has ended and implementation of the new law has begun, the rumor mill hasn’t slowed down. The [...]
July 10th, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
If you served at Fort McClellan – ‘the most toxic place on the planet’ – and are ill, give this info to your Dr and file a VA claim, say veterans’ advocates. From Susan Katz Keating: … I want to hear from you. Here’s why. I am in the process of preparing a Veterans Administration claim stemming from [...]
July 6th, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
As I finished up writing my last article on questions surrounding Agent Orange Outside of Boots On the Ground Vietnam, Rainbow Colored Chemical Agents on GUAM? http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/22/rainbow-colored-chemical-agents-on-guam/, an old article written by Mokie Porter of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) came to mind, and I dug it out of my stack of The VVA Veteran [...]
June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
By Alan Judd The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Richard P. was distraught. After arguing with his former wife, he checked into a motel, looped a belt around his neck and tried his best to take his own life. The belt broke. So Richard entered the labyrinth of Georgia’s mental health system. On June 5, hours after Richard’s [...]
June 20th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
- ‘Public is only now beginning to realize the extent of the contamination’ – By Barbara Barrett | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Former Marine Corps Cpl. Peter Devereaux was told about a year ago that he had just two or three years to live. More than 12 months later, at 48, he still isn’t ready [...]
June 20th, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
Senator Webb, we need you on this. U.S. Senator Jim Webb Virginia 248 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-4024 Fax: 202-228-6363 Toll Free Number 1-866-507-1570 Webb wary of expanded Agent Orange benefits By Rick Maze A $13.4 billion expansion of Agent Orange-related benefits for Vietnam veterans could be delayed because a key [...]
June 12th, 2010 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
Larry Scott has been all over this betrayal. EDGEWOOD ARSENAL / MKULTRA LAWSUIT MOVES TO NEXT PHASE Claims it is unconstitutional for the VA to decide VA claims where VA itself participated in the illegal chemical and biological weapons program. By Larry Scott, VA Watchdog dot Org ————————- We have been following the Edgewood Arsenal [...]
June 11th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Overview Published October 2009. This is one of the best publications of information I have seen from VA about the VA Health Care Benefits they want you to know about. But not to worry, I will still be writing articles in the future about the VA Health Care and other VA Benefits the VA does [...]
June 6th, 2010 | Posted in Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), chief architect of the pricey Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefit for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war era, could become a new champion, for taxpayers, against what he perceives as excess spending on military pay and on a new wave of Agent Orange claims.
June 5th, 2010 | Posted in Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
Current Rules Concerning Service-Connected Disability and DIC claims involving “Alcoholism” and “Drug Addition” are as follows: The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA 1990) erected a partial bar to benefits where “alcoholism” or a “drug abuse” disability is involved. For claims filed after October 31, 1990, OBRA 1990 provides that an injury or disease [...]
May 27th, 2010 | Posted in Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
In response to the IRS Tax-Fraud Complaint I filed with the IRS on April 13, 2010 and also sending a copy of same on April 14, 2010 to Congressman C.W. “Bill” Young (R) of the 10th District of Florida in St. Petersburg who is my Congressman, along with the story I wrote titled IRS Tax-Fraud Complaint filed against Veterans Park Conservancy(which [...]
May 18th, 2010 | Posted in Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
In order to be in the Army Luther had to pass the various medical and psychological examinations, so his condition couldn’t possibly be pre-existing. He was kept in an isolation chamber for one month, where he was treated worse than a prisoner, until he agreed to sign a pre-existing PD discharge. The Army’s officials found a way to get away with misdiagnosing him and he was denied treatment for his disabilities. The Army’s Chapter 5-13 says that any soldier with pre-existing PD should be discharged from the army with no medical benefits.
May 16th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
(MINNEAPOLIS, MN) – John Uldrich, an El Toro Marine veteran, has a 100 percent plus disability rating. But for all intents and purposes, it is as bogus as they come! Former MCAS El Toro Marine comments on his experience with the VA and passes on important information to other veterans. The VA knew he was [...]
May 6th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
Section 1151 Service-Connected Disability Compensation Claims – A Benefit the VA does not widely-advertise. PREFACE & WRITER’S NOTE: This Writer filed a Federal Tort Claim and sued the VA in Tampa, Florida Federal District Court in 2001 for being verbally and emotionally abused, and for being wrongfully discharged early by VA employees while a Resident-Patient from October 1998-March 1999 at [...]
May 1st, 2010 | Posted in Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
PREFACE The most important thing to remember about working while applying for or while receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is that you must report your wages, or your hours and wages from self-employment to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for each calendar month you work. You can report this work information by telephone at 1-800-772-1213, or you can report it in writing by [...]
April 28th, 2010 | Posted in Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING “RATED” AT 100% AND BEING “ASSIGNED” 100% TDIU BY THE VA? ARE VETERANS PERMITTED TO WORK WHEN “RATED” OR “ASSIGNED” 100% VA DISABILITY COMPENSATION? IS IT TRUE THAT A PERMANENT & TOTAL VA DISABILITY RATING IS NOT PERMANENT UNTIL AFTER 20-YEARS OR MORE? IS A VETERAN PERMITTED TO EARN [...]
April 24th, 2010 | Posted in Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
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