re: This mid-20s fitness freak is raking in the Veterans disability

It’s sickening. Much worse and more fraud than most civilians realize.

That would require clinicians to play along with it and receive kickbacks from other companies while the va contracts these independent clinicians

You can be a 100% disabled veteran and work which is contingent on the conditions you do have.

If you change the whole rating system then you have the change the whole medical system as well.

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6 kids?

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Even then it would be hard to get to $6,000 per month. He would get $110 per child (2026) and $350ish for each child over 18 and enrolled in college. So if a few are college age its possible.

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As a former infantry officer that destroyed an ankle, crushed my spine while losing my hearing by running ranges I never even contemplated applying for partial disability.

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As a former enlisted infantry nobody who had my stomach blown open (which I’m still getting periodic surgeries for 15 years later), my back and ankle wrecked, all the ribs on my left side broken when a truck landed on top of me, and lost a finger (literally had it when I left that morning and have no clue where the frick it went), plus all the normal stuff like hearing loss and exposure to hazardous chemicals, please accept my gratitude.

When soldiers complained about Sadr City I’d always remind them they could be back at Malone Range smoking cigs all day between yelling “range walk” at privates.

I’m sure the government appreciates it and is using it wisely on behalf of the citizens of some random country or maybe a study on the links between rainbows and systematic racism, but that’s money the government made a contractual promise to pay you if you got injured. There’s nothing immoral about holding them to the deal after you upheld your end, and there’s nothing virtuous about refusing it. A deal is a deal, and neither you nor I twisted the government’s arm to get that promise.

I find it odd that on a board that loves saying “taxation is theft,” “any money you get back from the government is good because it's not their money,” and “Trump would’ve been dumb not to exploit loopholes,” somehow the common soldier is the one who’s supposed to say “no thanks, it would be wrong to accept the money you agreed in writing to pay me.”

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I think more attention needs to be paid to "excessive wear" injuries, though. The amount of Airborne with fricked up backs, knees, etc., that get denied seems unfair, as an example.

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The program covers these injuries. My guess is that they are getting denied because for whatever reason their packet is lacking evidence or the veteran is failing to properly link the injury to their service. Many of these warriors didn't go to sick call for wear and tear injuries so they lack the evidence in their medical records, or they failed keep their medical records.

People call out the companies that "prey" on veterans but the companies understand the bureaucracy associated with getting your injuries approved and language needed in your claim files. Most of these companies provide this information free.