re: Veterans Claiming 100% Disability

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It’s one of the biggest scams going.

They can serve 20 years, retire with a military pension AND 100% disability, then go work for the federal government for 20 years and retire with social security AND a federal pension.

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What part of working two careers worth of jobs to qualify for those benefits is a scam exactly?

Downvoters don't want to explain this super awesome scam? Not shocking

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but officers and senior enlisted can easily skirt this and hook each other up.

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That's called integrity... and you either have it or you never did. Don't judge others, just judge yourself.

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Doesn't explain why it's ballooned so drastically lately (in participants and dollars), in relative peacetime. Is it really that much of a stretch that there's abuse of the system?

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The last 25 years was only "relative peacetime" to those that werent serving. We churned a generation of warfighters through constant deployments and that took an immense toll on health and wellness. This also included a higher utilization rate for the guard and reserve components.

I work with a veteran and this shite pisses him off. He said he routinely gets shamed by his veteran friends for not gaming the system.

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untouchable

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When did vets become Democrats?

I have a family member who did this. They didn't even spend six months in, not even through AIT. bullshite injury no worse than a bicycle wreck, but played it up into "nerve damage" and "emotional distress". Had rich partner at the time, doctor shopped constantly even outside the VA with physicians they knew. Eventually got full 100% disability within 5 years or so of being discharged and feigning being hurt.

Was a complete scam the whole times far as I could tell (this person never wanted to work to begin with, ever). Got full benefits including VA home loan for a house with just a $5,000 downpayment. We stopped talking a decade ago because it was obviously a grift and caused tension at any gatherings. The house was lost and a divorce happened, but the government checks still roll in.

They used to be too paranoid to even mow the lawn themselves in case an investigator took a picture and they lost the checks.

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You should hold everyone to the same standard,

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I'm not the one making the determinations you dumbass.

For those sent to Vietnam, especially those drafted, i am cool with the disability benefits. They went through hell for a pointless war.

However, don’t tell me your agent orange exposure caused your heart disease when you’ve smoked 1-2 pack/day since you were deployed in 68’

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Dude literally claimed his alcoholism was a result of his time in the Army and was awarded 100% disability. Ridiculous

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No such thing…totally the opposite as being an alcoholic and/or drug addict hurts claims as especially mental since it’s hard for raters to determine if issues stem from substance abuse or precipitor.

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You can qualify as a DV just for sleep apnea and needing a CPAP

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Another falsehood…SA has to have been diagnosed while in service and recently SA in rated at 0% if CPAP in use.

Living conditions for a deployed service member is often in crappy conditions in crappy countries with every kind of virus, amoeba, microscopic scabie, pulmonary enemy and bacteria you can imagine.

For the folks who did 4 years at Andrews AFB or out in Hawaii and no deployments, or broke a femur in boot camp/AIT and processed out…God bless them.

POGs and REMFs and FOBBITS get crapped on by combat arms folks but they’re our POGS and REMFs and FOBBITS, so civilians who are jealous Shaniqua got PTSD from having to show up to formation at 0630 can just just suck it.