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re: A great X thread on the scam that is the veterans benefits system

Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:49 pm to
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20176 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:49 pm to
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Because they are not disabled if they can earn $300k. Then change the name of the benefit.


It’s actually called “compensation and pension”

Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20176 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 4:50 pm to
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know a guy that makes six figures annually on disability due to “PTSD”, but still works on a $75k salary.


No you don’t, because PTSD maxes out at 70%.

So either you or him are full of shite.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
36549 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 5:10 pm to
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Have another buddy that’s active military and our tax dollars pay him $20k every three years when he moves, if he moves his own shite.
Your buddy is lying to you. I only did a 'DITY move' once because I ended up paying 2k out of pocket by the time it was all done. And it's not a flat rate, anyways. You don't get reimbursed for the same amount for moving from Ft Benning to Ft Hood, as you do for moving from Hood to Korea, for example.
Posted by mmmmmbeeer
ATL
Member since Nov 2014
8883 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 5:33 pm to
You can literally google to see VA disability payment amounts. Ain’t nobody making $6-7k/mo on VA disability.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
28646 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 5:46 pm to
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Your buddy is lying to you.


I just ran the PCM pay for an O6 with three kids, 2 POCs, 3000 miles, 9 travel days, and 15,000 pounds of HHG, and it came out to 17,387.61.

Gonna be hell to clear $20k on a DITY PCS.

I have to admit I never did a PCS once on Bragg you stay on Bragg. Endless TIY though.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
36549 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 5:52 pm to
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I have to admit I never did a PCS once on Bragg you stay on Bragg. Endless TIY though.
I knew a ton of 82nd guys in Korea that spent their whole careers doing 3 years at Bragg, 1 in Korea, 3 in Bragg, 1 in Korea.... over and over.
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
16858 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 6:00 pm to
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Elle looks like she's eatin' good...

She hasn’t got that stomach disabled.
Posted by Tider13
Member since Jun 2020
936 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 6:41 pm to
Hey look smart veterans using their earned benefits. Everyone in this thread could have joined but chose not too. Quit bitching.
Posted by Dragula
Laguna Seca
Member since Jun 2020
6033 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 6:43 pm to
Heros.....
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21465 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 7:02 pm to
Vets get worse pay for more responsibility and danger than their LEO counterparts. I am ok with them getting more govt $ in their bank account.
Posted by tes fou
Member since Feb 2014
922 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 10:09 pm to
Partner made the mistake of hiring one of these people once. I quickly realized I was looking at a perfectly normal healthy man in his late 30’s who was more interested in scamming the government than he was in being an effective employee or earning an honest living.

Glad a competitor offered him way more than he was worth to leave so I didn’t have to fire his sorry arse.
Posted by moneyg
Member since Jun 2006
59650 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 10:16 pm to
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It needs to be called Compensation for Service-Induced Damages or something to that effect because that's what it actually is.


It’s really not.

It’s really welfare.
Posted by terd ferguson
Darren Wilson Fan Club President
Member since Aug 2007
112211 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:56 am to
I'm actually impressed by the amount of blatantly false info in here. Quite a few of you should probably stop believing what your buddy told you bc it's mostly bullshite.
Posted by terd ferguson
Darren Wilson Fan Club President
Member since Aug 2007
112211 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:59 am to
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Heros


English languagers
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
14453 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 4:44 am to
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Everyone in this thread could have joined but chose not too.


Yeah I could have but I was smart enough to realize that I had better options.
This post was edited on 6/3/25 at 4:44 am
Posted by METAL
Member since Nov 2020
1403 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:49 am to
There shouldnt be a limit to how much you can make on VA disability but people that were shoe clerks that some how get a 100% rating should be investigated.

I’m looking at you, finance personnel.
This post was edited on 6/3/25 at 5:54 am
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
83824 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:08 am to
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Hey look smart veterans using their earned benefits. Everyone in this thread could have joined but chose not too. Quit bitching.


ehh

I certainly don't object to Veterans getting benefits and I candidly don't even mind if they work the system a bit at my/taxpayer expense.

But it's not about jealousy for what they're getting, to me it's about a seemingly (from the outside) messed up system that to some extent rewards a lot of people who were minimally in harm's way and suffered minimal physical/mental ramifications while those who left service with major issues from combat struggle to get everything they need because of bureaucracy.

Maybe that's not in fact the case, and good if so, but for an outsider that's what it looks like.

Posted by METAL
Member since Nov 2020
1403 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:14 am to
Most of the people I know on a VA rating are full of shite. If not completely, at least in part.
Posted by faraway
Member since Nov 2022
3283 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:14 am to
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Everyone in this thread could have joined but chose not too. Quit bitching.
not true
Posted by jizzle6609
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
15050 posts
Posted on 6/3/25 at 7:17 am to
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man the Financial Audit show makes me feel so much better about my savings and finances in general.


Most people and by most 90% plus lie to you about their finances

Almost everyone is a blow hard and I am talking about doctors too. Want to find the big ballers find your quiet finance guys. That’s where the money is.

There is a difference in having money and making money.

Most women are so stupid they just look at the husband and his potential career rather than the entire family.

Morons

Ps I hope both of these people go to jail.
This post was edited on 6/3/25 at 7:19 am
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