re: 40% of all living veterans are on disability benefits

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I don’t know a single Veteran who wouldn’t admit there is fraud. I just don’t appreciate a guy who has never dealt with what we have dealt with a day in his life questioning what we’ve dealt with

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Again, no one has a problem with legitimate claims.

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over 4.5 years away from my family still takes a toll on the body and mind.

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My parents were Navy, and I regularly spent 6-9 months without seeing my dad, so should he get disability for the rest of his life because of the trauma?

Linemen that work in disaster restoration spend long periods of time away from family, and have a pretty decent risk of serious injury or death. It's not the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, but can you claim disability for merely having been on mids or swings in the military if it caused you anxiety or PTSD?

There's a reason there are memes about a paratrooper hitting a deuce and a half and the joke is, "your injuries are not service related," but that doesn't seem to be any of the people that end up on Financial Audit that are drawing disability.

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You’re not skeptical. Many of you are outright calling veterans welfare queens and demanding major cuts to benefits. Stop being dishonest.

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Your making shite up isn't me being dishonest.

I have not called veterans welfare queens or demanded cuts.

I believe waste/fraud is rampant in the federal government, and the VA isn't immune to that. That's all I've argued, and that I'm good with efforts to reign that shite in - across the federal budget, involving every agency/program.

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My apologies, Candace. You’re just asking questions

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JFC you're stupid.

I'm making statements/arguments. Fraud and waste have gotten to ridiculous levels all across the federal government. That's not a question, and I hope you're not dim enough to question that.

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Who said anything about efficiency or fraud free? Did you miss where I called the process rigorous?

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Oh, frick - some dumbshit on tigerdroppingsthat going by "lurking" promised everybody that the VA process for determining disability benefits is rigorous. We all can rest assured the VA, unlike every other federal agency, is relatively fraud-free.

Almost 2000 posts a year you aren’t that busy bitch

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I have not called veterans welfare queens or demanded cuts.

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I didn’t say you did, grandpa. Time for your meds.

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I believe waste/fraud is rampant in the federal government, and the VA isn't immune to that. That's all I've argued, and that I'm good with efforts to reign that shite in - across the federal budget, involving every agency/program.

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I didn’t argue against that, moron. I said the VA is unique in that what is required would be detrimental to ALL VETERANS. FFS some of you are so incredibly dense it’s no wonder we’ve all but lost the country. We were busy deployed and trusted you idiots to preserve the nation in our absence. You did great, buddy.

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Fraud and waste have gotten to ridiculous levels all across the federal government. That's not a question, and I hope you're not dim enough to question that.

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I’ve already agreed, big brain. You’re arguing with yourself at this point.

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Oh, frick - some dumbshit on tigerdroppingsthat going by "lurking" promised everybody that the VA process for determining disability benefits is rigorous. We all can rest assured the VA, unlike every other federal agency, is relatively fraud-free.

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It is rigorous. Anyone arguing otherwise is unfamiliar with the process. Because they’re a pussy afraid to serve.

So again, you cucked boomer, how do you think this ends?

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I don’t know a single Veteran who wouldn’t admit there is fraud. I just don’t appreciate a guy who has never dealt with what we have dealt with a day in his life questioning what we’ve dealt with

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So don’t question anyone else receiving anything from govt ever because you don’t know what they’ve been through

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Well then maybe the VA should make the process more transparent and easier to navigate

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I believe they have done this somewhat.

One major benefit to service members, and the likely cause of the number of approved claims over the last 22 years, was the congressional mandate to move to an electronic health record system in 2004.

Service treatment records beforehand were reliant on paper spanning the member's entire career and actually being available at the time of their separation. Oftentimes these records were mailed during a PCS and thousands were lost over time. Now, VA representatives can view every single appointment a member had over their career in real time. Congress mandated the creation of MHS Genesis in 2016 that links the VA Healthcare system with the Department of Defense.

If people want a boogeyman to blame for the increase in VA disability claims, then they should be blaming technology, not screaming fraud.

Son…you have no idea….but people like me served and fought for this country so shitbags like you can have the freedom to say what you want…even if it is shite!

You’re welcome idiot!

So you are equate us to illegals now, awesome