armytiger96

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Could MHS Genesis account for the rate of veterans receiving disability benefits going up 5x?

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Not nearly as much as word of mouth within the Veteran community. Most prior to 2012 probably never realized that 25 years after service they would qualify for disability for the ringing in their ears, bum knees, bad back, etc. Injuries during service + father time taking its toll on body equals an increase claims. Word of mouth increases it exponentially.

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Again, no one has a problem with legitimate claims.

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The problem is ignorance of the system. What most of the people on this board don't understand is that most of what they consider fraud are legitimate claims.

They have an image of what disability looks like and when they see or hear about someone's rating and it doesn't match that image their thoughts go immediately to fraud.

This is most evident by the 10,000 or so posts complaining about someone having a high rating even though they can work a job that makes big bucks.

Joe public is completely unaware that VA disability payments have absolutely nothing to do with can you work. This isn't the same as your employers disability insurance. It's more like your employers workers compensation program.

They also hear 100% and think it should be someone that is completely disabled. They have no idea how VA math works and don't realize that you can have 100% rating via multiple smaller ratings that accumulate to 100%

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Feds don't tax VA disability pay, do they?

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No because its considered Workers Compensation payments which are not taxable.

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There is no lockbox. There is no lockbox. Ponzi schemes are illegal unless the government runs them.

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No one said there was a lockbox. Just a promise to pay.

It's no different than any other debt the gov't promises to pay.

Why are you ok with the gov't defaulting on its debts?

I would love for my kids to not have to pay into it as well. However, I am not ok with being robbed of over $500K when time for me to collect.

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the money that’s also not yours anymore

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This is complete load of horseshite. We are all forced to pay a premium with a promise of a certain payout when the day comes to collect it. It is a defined program any changes to the rules that negatively affects them is wrong and we should all be complaining because if they set the precedent now Lord only knows what they will do to your generation.

Would you be ok if on your tax return the government said, " we know you overpaid on your tax bill this past year but we spent more than we intended so we're not paying out your return?" Once they take it out of your paycheck it's not really your money anymore! Right?

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You also expect millennials and Gen Z to pay more taxes so you can collect that money

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First off, you do realize that this isn't a new problem. GenX has been forced to pay into this shite program for 30+ years with the expectation that they likely won't get their money back because that's what we have been told since the 80's.

We were promised reform in 2004 only to watch our trusted representatives do absolutely nothing to address the problem.

Gen Z has paid in 10's of thousands while GenX has paid in hundreds of thousands, and millennials are somewhere in between.

I don't expect anyone to pay more taxes and I am all for reforming the system. However, they have to figure out a way to accomplish it without negatively affecting the recipients. I expect the Government to figure out how to pay its debts with the money it currently collects from the General funds without raising taxes. To me the citizens should not allow their government to default on it's debts to it's citizens. The fact that the younger generations are ok with this is frightening.

What's next flood insurance, bonds, mortgages?

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And you are straight up lying that boomers don’t complain on here about losing their ss and their have also been plenty of threads with them cheering on elimination of their property taxes

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This is a thread about affordability not SS. Post a single thread started by a Boomer complaining about affordability and linking it to SS. That is a completely different argument than I paid $300-$500K and they are threatening to not pay what I was promised.

As I said previously the vast majority of the SS "complaints" on this board by Boomers are in reaction to asinine comments like yours stating the Gov't shouldn't pay them what they were owed. These complaints have nothing to do with affordability.

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They always blame avocado toast and coffee for why younger people can’t afford things, but older generations spent plenty too.

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Because they are not the ones who are complaining about affordability. The younger generations are complaining so they are the ones being told cut out these spending habits by those that figured out how to control spending and generate wealth.

Instead of listening to and adhering to their advice on how they created wealth you want come here and say see you had wasteful spending too! Sounds like a great way to prove there is an affordability problem.

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Artillery Crews (not) FDC,

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Just curious why not FDC? You're located adjacent to gun line and it's impossible to do your job while wearing earplugs.

And by the way tinnitus is automatic for Artillery MOS's.

Here's the problem. It's called VA Disability but in actuality it is essentially a workers compensation program for loss of function or quality of life as result of an injury while in service.

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VA disability operates fundamentally as a federal workers' compensation system for injuries or illnesses incurred or aggravated during military service. It provides tax-free monthly compensation, which—like workers' comp—is designed to offset lost earning capacity, pain, and suffering rather than replace lost wages.

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Military News

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I’d rather they allow the individual to control their own money. They can still call it a tax and require it go into a retirement account, but give the individual the choice to where it goes. I’d rather have my financial advisor manage it with my personal IRA, etc.

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I think we all want this option as well. Unfortunately, GW was crucified when he pitched this exact idea to congress in 2005.

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I bet it will be one or some or all of raising the maximum income threshold, increasing the minimum retirement age, or means testing, if they do anything at all. More likely they let it burn out with everyone paying in until it does.

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This will be the most likely outcome and the means testing will piss me off the most because it will reward the slapdicks in my generation that had fun chasing the Jones's for the past 30+ and punish those of us that were disciplined and planned for retirement.

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It could go belly up tomorrow and they wouldn’t owe you or I a thing.

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They would still "owe" us because it is a debt; however we wouldn't have a means to recover that debt. This would be the equivalent of not paying out your tax returns if you over paid. Sorry we over spent this year so we're not going to acknowledge your return.

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Somebody is going to get mega fricked. It needs to happen now, or it will continue getting worse. There needs to be a path to doing away with it right now. The problem is everyone getting all pissy about losing their money, and not caring how bad it gets as long as they get theirs. Meanwhile uncle Sam is fricking my eyes out.

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It must be 2004 again. You do realize this is the exact argument that was used in 2004 when they tried to privatize SS and has been said by every young worker since the '80s.