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He lives in my subdivision and i was helping him carry a box from the mail box and we started to talk,,,,, he is 100% and in his early 80sss and said for the most part he lives alone. He has a grandaughter who helps some times and was thinking of going to assisted living... He told me he heard he can get up to 1,600 toward his assisted living cost but he did not apply seems he was told the 1,600 would be taken from his 100% check like an offset ??? i said i would ask but did not know...

i am 70 and IU and over 60 and asked for PT and they wanted a re exam so i took out my claim

i had the same problem till the doctor said ok he can do some very simple jobs but he can not do ANY jobs full time

i feel you i have been seeing a shrink now most times 2 time a month and this started in 2000 and i have nothing more to say... i am just burned out talking about anything i finally stoped this last july the doctor calls me and says i missed you ... i said dont take this wrong but you have drained me of all my thoughts and i just dread coming to your office as i have nothing to say ...

i also had a hard time as they throw out them jobs like folding sheets , or working at a gas station as ( he can still do this ) but my doctor said sure he can do these simple jobs he just cant do them more then 4 hours a day ... seems the rule is you must be able to work full time..

i agree with you this gives them an in... to take away i thought they were two totally different systems

I would think anything is possible as long as the down payment is high enough to please the bank... years ago being self employed to the banks was like being a wild child who paid only when they felt like ...as i was self employed for most of my life ( did not work well with others..)) i always had to put down at least 20% and they basically did not care what my income was .. these days i bet if you put 30 to 35% down you will be able to start over... first i would start by asking questions of the places that place VA loans they even have a NO funding fee for disabled vets

i received almost the same letter and appealed and won at the AJ ... what went in my favor is the doctor said sure he can do some task but he can do NO task full time ....

that could work except i take a dim look at anyone who seems to be following me .... i live in the philippines so the travel was easy on a car ride away... i have spent a lot more then that over the years on diets.. and cloths i can now wear the cloths i have from the 80ss who knows maybe they will come back into style..

after being on a diet off and on for 30 years i gave up and had a vertical sleeve done i paid for it myself in the philippines cost me about 6,500 dollars lost 75 lbs or from my 295 lbs and have keep it off for 2 years for me it was a great investment... i was in the hospital 3 days...

ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Andrew Taylor, Associated Press – Thu Feb 10, 6:35 pm ET WASHINGTON – Piling cuts on top of cuts, House Republican leaders outlined an additional $26 billion in spending reductions on Thursday in hopes of placating conservatives who rejected an initial draft as too timid. Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., in charge of drafting the legislation, said he had proposed "deep but manageable cuts in nearly every area of government." No details were immediately available, but the move would cut current spending in hundreds of federal programs by about $60 billion, resulting in levels in effect in 2008. By Republican reckoning, the new measure would reduce spending by $100 billion below Obama's request for the current fiscal year, a number they had promised to meet in the "Pledge to America," their manifesto in the 2010 campaign. The actual cuts from current rates are less because the $100 billion promise assumes Obama budget increases that were never enacted. Rogers, R-Ky., had warned only Wednesday that such cuts could lead to layoffs of FBI agents and harm to the nation's air traffic control system. He also warned of cuts to health research, special education and Pell Grants for low-income college students. Thursday's announcement caps a long struggle among Republicans over what they meant exactly when promising to cut $100 billion last year in their Pledge to America. At the center of the debate has been the fact that the budget year began Oct. 1 and the government has been spending money at last year's levels since then. A stopgap government funding bill expires March 4. That makes it much harder to keep the promise since it squeezes a year's worth of cuts into seven months. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had earlier promised to spread the cuts over a calendar year, with the upcoming spending bill making a significant down payment in advance of another round of cuts as Congress hashes out next year's appropriations bills. "We will meet our pledge to America," Boehner said, adding that the upcoming legislation will "send a signal that we're serious about cutting spending here in Washington." But rank-and-file Republicans, many of whom have little hands-on knowledge of the budget and the impact the cuts will have on programs popular with their constituents, insisted on keeping the $100 billion promise, forcing Boehner and the appropriations panel to go back to the drawing board. "It's important to do what we said we were going to do," said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Boehner met with GOP freshmen Thursday afternoon to sell the plan, which Republicans expect to unveil Friday afternoon. The new plan will build upon a partial roster of cuts released Wednesday that targeted school aid, the Environmental Protection Agency and would kill off a high-speed rail program that Obama wants to significantly expand. Republicans also promise to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, family planning services and AmeriCorps. The new promise means closer scrutiny of the Pentagon, Homeland Security and possibly even veterans' accounts that Republicans had hoped to hold harmless.And it means that the FBI won't get the 4 percent increase Republicans had hoped to give it, while health research might bear a cut instead of being frozen at $31 billion. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, a Boehner confidante with responsibility for drafting the transportation and housing budgets from his perch on the Appropriations Committee, promised that a housing program that provides rent subsidies for the poor would continue to provide rental vouchers. Latham worries, however, that House passage of the new, tougher version of the measure could spark a prolonged deadlock with the Senate and lead to a series of short-term spending bills that would continue to fund the government at current levels. Passing a measure with smaller cuts might have a better chance at becoming law. "My concern is that we may be missing a real opportunity to actually enact cuts that could have been put in place and that we're going to end up with a (stopgap measure) that just continues level funding," Latham said

how about all the money the US spends on military in germany, korea, japan, philippines,, money to mexico and columbia and every other country that wants a hand out..

i always was told these two are different one is a amount set on loss of ability to earn and the other was a straight insurance program ... if you worked you should be able to collect the insurance like any other american ...

so has any one gotten a tax break in arizona and if so how..

has anyone did anything toward property taxes in arizona....??? even if you cut out your va money they still want a income below 13,200 a year to include you and the wife .... my ss is 1,200 a month to looks like they will tell me no...

But when you look at the Arizona web site it says.... LIST ALL INCOME from all sources

Thinking of moving to arizona as its on sale..... looked up bennies for 100% disabled vets... one hand it says if your 100% disabled VA you dont have to pay property tax's on house you live in.... but if you make to much money your not allowed to take this bennie.. so what is to much 14,000 a year so if your 100% you dont have to pay tax but if your 100% you make to much money ... confusing or am i just to dumb to read between the lines ???

i had the same treatment in 69/70 i got sick and passed out and next i know i am in a tub like thing and they are packing ice around me but it does not seem to be cold.... i was in and out 7 days... never was told why it happened i was a gunner in the 229th 1st air car in Dau Tieng

i live in the philippines and i think this is the only place outside the us you can get help for your SC only... There are bases in Korea manybe you will be allowed to get medical help there but i am not sure...

had problems keeping a job after Viet nam and went thru about 6jobs in 2 years then I invented myself I learned to refinish bathtubs and countertops a perfect job for me because I only did empty apartments .. you work alone don’t have to talk to anyone and send the bill in the mail this worked for me for 30 plus years and it would be only after the customers would insist to meet me in person that I would pick up and move and start over ... you need to adjust your illness the best way you can I did not seek any treatment until 2000 I did get arrested over the years and the most common thing the judge would say is ... I don’t understand this you run your own business never get a traffic ticket and then one day wake up and go nut-so??? After the 3 rd time to get arrested the judge as part of the sentence made me go see a therapist and it helped so she sent me to the VA because it was free as I had no insurance. I never knew anything was wrong with me except for loosing it sometimes , one arrest came because I felt my neighbor was spying on me and following me around I confronted him and it got physical , turns out he just did not like me , another was I went into a bank and acted like I was going to rob it I acted like I was writing a note and threw it away paced etc I don’t know what or why I was doing this but when I went to leave there were lots of police waiting for me and I guess I could of ended it right there and I wasn’t scared but just not ready ,,,, you just have to put one foot in front of the other every day and hope things work out. Now I talk for about 2 hours to a doctor every 2 weeks and it keeps me stable and the meds help me sleep , I have been seeing a doctor now for a little over 10 years and if I don’t go to the doctor I am afraid the old me will come back ...With the exception of my guilt of not being a great dad I did the best I could with what I had to work with, my son who is now in the Navy remembers me always locking my bedroom door ( my wife left after 3 years of marriage , left me and our two children they were 1 and 3 years old and my mother helped me raise them ) he always though it was to keep him out but it was to keep me in I was always afraid I would wander the house and accidentally hurt him so I locked the door with a key and the key was not near the door so it took effort to unlock and gave me time to snap out of it and wake up… the most dangerous time for me is that time when you have been awake for too long and you slip from awake to sleep that has been fixed with the meds.. Everyone is different and handles things differently and we all need to find out what works best for us I think the phase .. one day at a time was ment for PTSD ..

I live in the Philippines and will be going to Mesa Arizona to visit a granddaughter does anyone know of a discount given on a rental car for one month or more?? anyone give me a approx. cost on a 6 week rental ? Small car is fine..

i am glad to have read this i take 850 of this once a day and 150 Zoloft and my doctor said 850 is not too much you can take up to 1,200 before it can become harful

that is why I chose vertical banding no moving of the plumbing, no problems with lack of vitamin if I try to eat say a big Mac I can not finish it maybe I can get 2/3 done but that is only if I don’t eat the fries or the drink if I eat any more it feels like I want to throw up...

I slowly got bigger and bigger when I finally went IU in 2004 at that time I was 248 lbs 6 foot and in the next 5 years I grew to 297 lbs...(border line diabetic I was more and more winded now I am sitting here typing this and I weigh 226 lbs... so how did it do it your asking... as I live in the Philippines I was able to get a very reasonable price on a Vertical banding they call it stomach staple they don’t move anything or reroute anything just make your tummy smaller so I get full very easy.... At the same time I had a stomach hernia a very very very large one and I got both operations at the same time... Best thing I ever did for myself... the va was suppose to do the hernia but they stalled and stalled and i finally said i am moving from oregon to the Philippines in 2004 ...Next question everyone wants to know how much??? cost my about 6,000 dollars for both operations if I was only getting the staple one it would of been 5,000 and that included the hospital and all doctors.. I am still not anywhere close to a buff stud but hey for a 59 year old I am not bad... all of my siblings have a weight problem so I think mine was not related to anything but eating too much and to often...

come on dont get testy... i get a total of 50,000 and have 6 children with 2 still in school to some this is not enough to me its heaven sent..