If my girlfriend were to demand child support through the state of NY, could they take the money owed out of my VA comp and pen? I am rated at 100%…
Yeah, I had one kid with her. I shouldn’t have to give her enough to raise her other kids on my income alone.I don’t think that is fair. I don’t want to feel like her pay check and not have the right to see my child.
I recently broke my nose a day before I returned to Iraq from leave, where I work. I have no personal health insurance because Contractors do not get benefits like Military personnel, but I do have VA Health care because I am a combat veteran of the Iraq War less than 5 years ago. Is there any way to receive VA Health care in Iraq? If not, who is going to reset my broken nose?
Question: I have Medicare and Veteran’s benefits. Who pays first?
Answer: When you get health care, you must choose which benefits you are going to use. You must make this choice each time you see a doctor or get health care, like in a hospital. Medicare cannot pay for the same service that was covered by Veterans benefits, and your Veterans benefits cannot pay for the same service that was covered by Medicare. You do not have to go to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital or to a doctor who works with the VA for Medicare to pay for the service. However, to get services paid by VA, you must go to a VA facility or have the VA authorize services in a non-VA facility.
Question: Are there any situations when both Medicare and VA can pay?
Answer: Yes. If the VA authorizes services in a non-VA hospital, but doesn’t pay for all of the services you get during your hospital stay, then Medicare may pay for the Medicare-covered part of the services that the VA does not pay for.
Example: John, a veteran, goes to a non-VA hospital for a service that is authorized by the VA. While at the non-VA hospital, John gets other non-VA authorized services that the VA refuses to pay for. Some of these services are Medicare-covered services. Medicare may pay for some of the non-VA authorized services that John received. John will have to pay for services that are not covered by Medicare or the VA.
Question: Can Medicare help pay my VA co-payment?
Answer: Sometimes. The VA charges a co-payment to some veterans. The co-payment is your share of the cost of your treatment, and is based on income. Medicare may be able to pay all or part of your co-payment if you are billed for VA-authorized care by a doctor or hospital that is not part of the VA.
Question: I have a VA fee basis ID card. Who pays first?
Answer: The VA gives fee basis ID cards to certain veterans. You may be given a fee basis card if:
If you have a fee basis ID card, you may choose any doctor that is listed on your card to treat you for the condition. If the doctor accepts you as a patient and bills the VA for services, the doctor must accept the VA’s payment as payment in full. The doctor may not bill either you or Medicare for any charges. If your doctor doesn’t accept the fee basis ID card, you will need to file a claim with the VA yourself. The VA will pay the approved amount to either you or your doctor.
Question: Where can I get more information?
Answer: You can get more information on Veterans’ benefits by calling your local VA office, or the national VA information number 1-800-827-1000. Or, you can use a computer to look on the Internet at www.va.gov. If you do not have a computer, your local library or senior center may be able to help you get this information using their computer.
Question: If I have additional question on my Medicare coverage, who do I call?
Answer: 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) or TTY/TDD: 1-877-486-2048 for the hearing and speech impaired)
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My husband served five months during 2003 active duty for the Air Force,(during the war in Iraq, but was not sent there) was honorably discharged and has his dd214 paper. Would we qualify for a VA home loan?
RICHMOND- Thanks to the expanded Post 9/11 G. I. Bill, many veterans are opting to return to school. With more than 1,000 approved post-secondary educational programs, Virginia has a lot to offer veterans. Approved programs range from university degree programs to apprenticeships, on-the- job training programs, and license and certification tests.
“In order for a veteran to use his or her G.I. Bill benefits at an educational institution or program, the program must be certified by the State Approving Agency for Veterans Education and Training,” explained Annie Walker, Director of the Virginia State Approving Agency (SAA), part of the Virginia Department of Veterans Services.
Every state has an SAA which operates under a contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The SAA reviews, evaluates, and approves post secondary education and training programs offered by educational institutions, businesses, and industries. This certification process ensures that programs meet VA requirements and allows veterans and their dependents to receive their educational benefits when attending an approved program.
The SAA also conducts compliance visits to verify the accuracy of enrollment data, award actions, and previous payments and to ensure payments made to veterans comply with VA regulations.
Virginia ranks fourth in the nation in terms of the number of veterans enrolled and receiving G.I. Bill benefits. “Since 2002, we’ve seen tremendous growth in Virginia in the number of veterans receiving G.I. Bill benefits, the number of programs approved, and the dollar amount of benefits paid out by the VA,” said Walker.
Veteran enrollments have increased nearly 200 percent over the past decade, growing from 17,429 in 2002 to 51,574 in 2011. Likewise, the number of approved educational institutions has increased 81 percent, from 558 in 2002 to 1,008 in 2011. In 2011, VA educational benefits paid out to Virginia veterans totaled $562 million, up 346 percent from $126 million paid out in 2006.
Among the approved four-year public institutions, Old Dominion University and George Mason University have the highest veteran enrollments, 1,916 and 1,222 enrolled veterans, respectively.
Tidewater Community College with 4,482 veterans and Northern Virginia Community College with 3,117 veterans have the highest veteran enrollments among the state’s community colleges. Strayer University and ECPI University, 5,049 veterans and 4,442 veterans, respectively, have the highest veteran enrollments among the private colleges. Among apprenticeship programs, Northrop Grumman with 42 veterans and Dominion Power with 10 veterans have the highest number of veteran participants.
And, Sussex 1 State Prison, 13 veteran participants, and Virginia Beach Police Department, 20 veteran participants, have the highest number of veterans participating in on-the-job training programs.
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I know allot of people who collect both unemployable and partial in their 70′s and most people only get reevaluated every 10 years if ever because the VA does not have resources to do new claims so they contact it out!
My husband receives VA benefits and pension. He lives with us, but he doesn’t pay any bills or buy any food. He has me and our son as dependents even though we don’t depend on him because I work and my son does too.
How can I have that part of his VA check come in my name instead?
I served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm and I now have GWS. I have applied for VA benefits but I have not heard anything back, yet. I want to know if anyone has gone through the process and is receivging benefits for GWS.
i was told that if my husband (who is prior service) receives disability benefits from the va that my son and i would be able to receive money from social security each month..is this true? and if so how would i go about filing for it?
by Sami Jamil Jadallah
We have paid an obscene price for the so-called war on terror, which has benefited none other than 1) Israel and 2) American energy corporations. Were the costs of human lives and the damage to our economy worth it? I do not think so, not one life, not one dollar.
It is clear who are the winners, the losers are many, American citizens and tax payers, Iraqi, Afghani and Pakistani civilians, the people and the truth are always the losers.
Almost all of those responsible for the US plowing the way to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq went on to better things. They are highly paid executive consultants, resident scholars at think tanks, professors at prestigious universities, even as heads of world banks. They are writing books and making a ton of money. We know the benefits they reaped. Not sure if they know the price we paid.
In Iraq the costs are staggering, 4,485 soldiers dead, with 31,921 wounded, and the deaths of more than 2,097 civilian contractors. Journalists have paid a high price, with upwards of 170 killed by both the US and Iraqi insurgents. Financial costs are in excess of 805 billion dollars.
Iraqis have suffered more than 1.5 million civilian casualties, more than 1.3 million internally displaced persons, and more than one million refugees living in Jordan and Syria, not to mention the destruction to the country’s infrastructure, reduced to rubbles and corrupted with an inefficient sectarian government that fails to provide basic services or security to its people.
In Afghanistan, the figures are equally devastating with 2,826 allies’ casualties, 1,771 Western collateral casualties in neighboring countries, and tens of thousands of injuries. The Afghani and Pakistani casualties are in the tens of thousands with varying figures depending on who is counting.
I am sure that intelligence and security advisors to President Reagan had little knowledge that the “Jihad War” in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union would come back and haunt America.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in Washington meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss and agree on the final phases of withdrawal of the last of American troops. They also plan to discuss future business, commercial and security cooperation with a devastated and broken-down Iraq. There are no plans for rebuilding the nation, but there are plans for extensive presence of American corporations that continue to loot Iraq. We are left wondering why our nation went to war and allowed people to die only to secure business opportunities for energy and military industrial companies.
I am not so sure that American tax payers and the families of all those who died as a result of the tragedy on September 11th, and those who died in these wars are so happy with the promise of tens of billions of dollars in contracts awarded to American corporations. I am not so sure that the families of dead veterans are happy, knowing the remains of their loved one are dumped in garbage sites and the injured find nothing but careless neglect, returning to a country that fails to provide adequate mental and economic support. The price America and the American people have paid for this war has far exceeded the billions it promises to energy and military industrial companies. The benefits of this war are not worth the loss of a single American soldier or civilian, here or overseas.
It so ironic and incredible that all those responsible for the safety and security of America and its citizens, whether civilians or military all were promoted without any one being brought to account for such negligent if not criminal failures.
Ronald Reagan “Jihadists,” including the likes of Osama Bin Laden, were enlisted to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. America, in fact, has engaged in the systematic recruitment, training, funding and politicization of tens of thousands of potential Jihadists in Afghanistan.
Just over a decade later, the Bush Administration blamed 19 “Jihadists” for the September 11th attacks on our country, and used their actions as the primary reasoning for why we should go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are left with a multitude of unknowns and unexplained facts. Domestic and international, private and public corporations were all beneficiaries of the 9/11 tragedy, and reaped tens of billions of dollars from the destruction of the Twin Towers, the collapse of Building 7 and the War on Terror. It was a political military coupe d’état. None of the government explanations for these wars have made any sense.
The US economic costs are at 3.2-4 trillion and counting, I am sure that these “Jihadists” have good reasons to support radical Neocon-inspired actions, knowing that wars of attrition can and do result in permanent damage on any nations that engage in them—including the US.
Almost a decade later America, we have nothing to be proud of. Were the captures and killings of Saddam and Osama worth all of this? We did not end the threat of terrorism, and in fact we have contributed to the spread of terrorism. We did not make Iraq or Afghanistan safe and secure democracies. Allowing Neocon and Zionist thinking to determine our foreign policy has resulted in greater risks both for America and for Israel. With so many mistakes, missteps, reckless and damaging decisions that endangered our country and put us at greater risks, it we, the citizens of this county that must investigate our government, not the other way around.
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