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Slowlane

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  1. why arent these proud ass service organizations walking the C&P waiting rooms and holding class on how they are about to get screwed?????
  2. If you are not paranoid now you will be when VA gets through with you. Sure as hell seems that they ALL are against us. I watched the same show today.......Cavouto on Fox news. Whistleblower telling his story. He was given a hard time too! Said he was giving direct testimony to Jeff Miller and that was the ONLY reason he was not fired. He verified that the bonus checks were for making the numbers look good and get this...........NO BONUS'S WERE GIVEN FOR HELPING VETERANS. He also said that they would just hire more GS 13s and up to offset the damage when they really needed more lower level grunts to actually do work. I saved the show and will watch it again when I cool off. Slowlane
  3. Congratulations. Proud of you for keeping up the pressure. Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!
  4. I know zactly what you are experiencing. When I sense something going in the wrong direction with VA I am usually right on the money. Gotta be careful it causes paranoia. It got to the point when I was watching a football game on TV when the team went into a huddle I thought they were talking about me.
  5. Dont let it bother you changing Doctors...........Not a big deal unless you are doing it way too much.......
  6. My Administrative review for severance of service connection for Agent Orange has closed 6/24/14. Ebenies has no other information except the word Next with a colon and no words (nada). Anyone out there that knows if I am supposed to get some kind of notification or results of the review? I'm cranking on my letter to Jeff Miller but need to know what went down on the Administrative review.
  7. The RO scheduled my CP exam without my knowledge and did not want me to be there. My CP was on neck cancer and the Dr was a gyno doc. Her opinion that was fed to her by the RO and got my service connection severed. They just do whatever they please.
  8. Sounds like you got a dog in this fight. You might spend a few bucks on an outside opinion from a local shrink. Also, do a lot of reading and this site can keep you busy. Good Luck and keep fighting.
  9. Begging for a RO Whistleblower I know you are out there. We need your help. The cheating and taking advantage of Veterans at C&P level. The amount of time it takes to process a claim. The amount of time it takes to produce a Statement of Case. The amount of time it takes to get a case to the BVA. The number of Veterans that are stuck on the hamster wheel. Deny Deny until they Die. I ASK THAT ONLY VA RO EMPLOYEES REPLY TO THIS THREAD. PLEASE!!!!
  10. VA: 80 percent of senior executives got bonuses By MATTHEW DALY 19 hours ago BONUSES FOR VA EMPLOYEES  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 80 percent of senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs got performance bonuses last year despite widespread treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA hospitals and clinics, a top official said Friday. Related Stories VA chief: More vets wait 30 days for appointment Associated Press Senate bill doubles spending on veterans' health Associated Press Veterans health spending doubled in Senate bill Associated Press Senate to take up new VA bill after scandal Associated Press VA chief: 18 vets left off waiting list have died Associated Press More than 350 VA executives were paid a total of $2.7 million in bonuses last year, said Gina Farrisee, assistant VA secretary for human resources and administration. That amount is down from about $3.4 million in bonuses paid in 2012, Farrisee said. The totals do not include tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded to doctors, dentists and other medical providers throughout the VA's nearly 900 hospitals and clinics. Workers at the Phoenix VA Health Care System — where officials have confirmed dozens of patients died while awaiting treatment — received about $3.9 million in bonuses last year, newly released records show. The merit-based bonuses were doled out to about 650 employees, including doctors, nurses, administrators, secretaries and cleaning staff. Farrisee defended the bonus system, telling the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA needs to pay bonuses to keep executives who are paid up to $181,000 per year. "We are competing in tough labor markets for skilled personnel," Farrisee said Friday. "To remain competitive in recruiting and retaining the best personnel to serve our veterans, we must rely on tools such as incentives and awards that recognize superior performance." View gallery Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson speaks during a news conference at the VA Medical Cen … Farrisee's testimony drew sharp rebukes by lawmakers from both parties. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said the VA's bonus system "is failing veterans." Instead of being given for outstanding work, the cash awards are "seen as an entitlement and have become irrelevant to quality work product," Miller said. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., said awarding bonuses to 80 percent of executives means that the VA was setting the bar for performance so low that "anybody could step over it. If your metrics are low enough that almost everybody exceeds them, then your metrics are not very high." Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., said the VA suffered from "grade inflation, or what (humorist) Garrison Keillor would refer to as 'all of the children are above average.'" View gallery Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson speaks during a news conference at the VA Medical Cen … Kuster and other lawmakers said they found it hard to believe that 80 percent of senior employees could be viewed as exceeding expectations, given the growing uproar over patients dying while awaiting VA treatment and mounting evidence that workers falsified or omitted appointment schedules to mask frequent, long delays. The resulting election-year firestorm forced VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign three weeks ago. Miller, the panel's chairman, noted that in the past four years, none of the VA's 470 senior executives have received ratings of minimally satisfactory or unsatisfactory, the two lowest ratings on the VA's five-tier evaluation system. Nearly 80 percent of senior executives were rated as outstanding or exceeding "fully successful," according to the VA. "Based on this committee's investigations, outside independent reports and what we have learned in the last few months, I wholeheartedly disagree with VA's assessment of its senior staff," Miller said. An updated audit released this week showed that about 10 percent of veterans seeking medical care at VA hospitals and clinics have to wait at least 30 days for an appointment. More than 56,000 veterans have had to wait at least three months for initial appointments, the report said, and an additional 46,000 veterans who asked for appointments over the past decade never got them. The VA has confirmed that dozens of veterans died while awaiting appointments at VA facilities in the Phoenix area, although officials say they can't tell whether the delays caused any of the deaths. The VA's inspector general has said that the bonus system — which has been suspended amid a criminal probe of wrongdoing at the agency — contributed to the fake record-keeping, since employees knew that bonuses for senior managers and hospital directors were based in part on on-time performance. Some 13 percent of VA schedulers surveyed by auditors reported being told by supervisors to falsify appointment records to make patient waits appear shorter. The House and Senate have both approved legislation to make it easier to fire senior executives and hospital administrators. The House bill would ban performance bonuses, while the Senate would sharply limit them. Lawmakers say they hope to bring a compromise bill to the president before the July 4 recess. ___ Matthew Daly can be reached at: https://twitter.com/MatthewDalyWDC
  11. If you ever get back in, ask for a Rx of 30 pills @2mg each. You can cut them to ones and get 60 days out of the experiment.
  12. Walt Kelly first used the quote "We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us" on a poster for Earth Day in 1970
  13. I understand Berta about the multitudes of things that make the delays happen. Problem is, if you tried to explain it to a average citizen he would start yawning after the first 15 minutes of your 2 hour diatribe. Strictly using math of X days to get an appeal to the BVA and X days to get a decision is the real eye opener that needs to be on national news. Heck, the American public is aware of 22 suicides a day now and has become numb to it as if it were a traffic accident. Hate to say it but we dont stand a chance.
  14. John, There are so many complaints tied to BVA that it should be the ONLY item that we should try to get national exposure on. Wait time, SOC, Form 9, wait again on BVA, years and years and on and on and on. So, instead of a "top 5" complaints I am going to just focus on BVA problems.
  15. I'm sure he will appeal..........hope it has to go thru the St Pete RO.........!!!!!!!!
  16. AAAYYYYHHH!!!!!!!!! OK after 2 pages of good complaints can we at least come together long enough to select the NUMBER-ONE-COMPLAINT?? And the number-one-complaint is: 1.
  17. There is some really good stuff in this thread. We should compile the top 5 or 10 and get everyone to send them to Jeff Miller, CNN, FOX, Obama, and whoever is the newest VA head. Shoot, we could even put the email addresses right below the top 5 or 10 list so it would be real easy to send.
  18. Looks like you have made an innocent admission of truth that the VA can amplify (lie) and use against you. The VA probably had an orgasm when they read your report as this is their entire sex life. Problem is, when you mail in a letter trying to correct the misunderstanding, it will just make the situation worse and make you look more like a liar. Then comes their second orgasm when they reopen your entire file. Keeping your 90% might be a bit of a challenge if they re-open your entire file. Have you thought about quitting your full/part time job?
  19. This is just one VA Center. How about the rest of them ? Can you believe this ??? Read it and weep, pass it on. Just when you think the poop couldn't get any deeper here comes this information! The Feds​ at their best...no wonder they can’t care for our vets......they are way too busy padding the pockets of their own!! ​ Time to shuffle the deck and ‘vote the bxstards out”! his is the list of salaries of those employed at the VA hospital in Phoenix!Hold onto your ​ socks and fasten your safety belt for this one. http://www.openthebooks.com/search/?PensionCode=840&F_fiscalyear=2013&F_Station=Phoenix&F_Name=&perpage=100 >
  20. I so hope you are right about "it going to break" because I know that my C&P examiners were coached by the RO.
  21. You have been treated very badly. The end of your rant "but what can you do?" You can vote against whomever is in office now because this happened on his/her watch. And just for fun, make sure you tell them about your vote as well. Thats just one thing you can do. Are you motivated to do more?
  22. 1. We take up a collection. 2. We hire a airplane to fly banners over Regional Offices. The press gets involved and large chunks of do-do hits the fan.
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