Posted on 05/26/2016 9:31:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Some 4,000 U.S. military veterans and their families stopped receiving benefits over the past five years after they were wrongly declared dead, the newest in a string of problems to emerge from the Department of Veterans Affairs...... ust in 2015, benefits were incorrectly terminated for 1,025 veterans. The mistakes were largely due to employee error or wrongly interpreted data by the department's computers
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This will screw up a lot of families!
I am not dead yet...
For all Monty Python folks...
Is there a list somewhere so I can check to see if I am “dead” or not?
Make room for Padre'.
“I’m feeling better now”
Ain’t it funny how all these Veteran’s Administration “errors” keep happening during Obama’s watch, but it’s never Obama’s fault?
Sarc understood....I hope.
Will someone be fired in this government agency? Where does the buck stop?
You're not fooling anyone.
“Is there a list somewhere so I can check to see if I am “dead” or not?”
Only if you’re a celebrity. :-)
Betting none of the “dead” voted for him.
Just to be fair how many dead people are this still paying?
And they still collect bonuses and benefits!
At Mickey ‘D’s, how many times can you burn the fries or screw up an order?
Before they let you go?
Well, that explains why I’ve been feeling so flat lately.
My thinking is, a similar number of errors in each direction?
I retired from the AF 20 years ago and the VA has declared me dead twice since then. They never attempted to confirm whether I was actually dead or not, they just stopped my disability. They never contacted my wife about benefits she would have been owed in the event of my death, either.
I went to the local VA office and showed them a picture ID and they said that it wasn’t sufficient. I had to write a notarized statement and provide 2 photo IDs which had to be submitted to the main office in St Petersburg. If they decided I wasn’t dead, I would have to wait at least 6 months for them to fix the error and reinstate my disability payments.
In the meantime, the VA decided to notify the AF of my death and they quit sending my AF Retirement. It took one phone call and 5 minutes for the AF Retiree center to fix the error.
It’s a simple cost cutting method by the time they get reinstated they will be dead and will have no standing in court.
It’s just a trial run for saving ObamaCare.
When you can never be fired from your gub-ment job, why not simply dispose of the work load.
Same thing as a postal worker throwing bags of mail in a dumpster.
“Dead” Man: I don’t want to go on the cart.
Large Man: Oh, don’t be such a baby.
Four years.
I’ve been trying to get the VA to correct an administrative error by them for four years.
The bureaucrats at the VA are organized crime.
A good way to deal with the waiting times.
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