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JR Reihs

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  1. Yup, get that to OPM ASAP..........Make sure it gets there
  2. IMO, you will get SC'ed for the issue listed. What that rating will be is not a question anyone here can answer. The VA will send you the rating and how they reached the decision, if you disagree, you get back on the merry go round.
  3. Well, it went fron 40 to 0%..........how and why did that happen , and when did the 20% hit 15?
  4. John Stewart did a bit on his show about this......it was really a good piece and should be watched.
  5. This should be posted in a Sticky somewhere.........This is a subject that will continue to get questions, even though they have been answered hundreds of times.
  6. What was wrong with the previous C&P. That would be a major question to the DRO. .
  7. Ha Ha, that funny right there.....What good is a locked gun. The NRA will give those out for free. Just my collection alone, they will need a bigger box. Any VET who submits to this quackery, does not deserve to have a gun. I hope I get the form in the mail
  8. Retro Pay???? "I've been approved for nsc pension $1037 starting 1/1/15. I've been drawing ssi $731 for 15 months." Looks like the VA awarded you the same date SSI did.......Soooooo, you are going to probably need to pay SSI back. Best hold that VA retro until you get things straight with SSI.
  9. Ok, your Avatar show 30%, but I will still say that you face an uphill battle due to OWCP comp. Have you looked into OPM to get away from OWCP? Once you do this I think you would have a great chance in getting into the ILP.
  10. You are in a Sticky situation due to the OWCP. The receipt of OWCP means that as of now you are disabled due to a work related injury, and now you are asking the VA to enroll you into the ILP program that is for "basically", 100% SC'd Vets who are not able to persue Voc Rehab. I think you will get the "You are on OWCP so we can't help you", and don't take it personally, it's not. OWCP has it's own programs that you might be qualified for, but OWCP is a monster far beyond what most people could fathom. There may come a time that you would be good to go with ILP, but the VA would be within their right's by it's denial for ILP based on the OWCP claim for wich your are currently disabled from your employment, and not SC'd injuries.
  11. Just make sure you do not spend an ssi check after 1/1/15and you will be ok.
  12. Not true, and you should not stand for this. VOC Rehab is there to help Vets further their employment opportunities through education. Any Vet with a 20% or more rating is eligible to apply.
  13. I am pretty sure you need to go thrugh the adoption rocess to satisfy the Va rule. withyou having the awarded custody it might not take a legal fight to get the right papers through.
  14. In your situation, ulnless you owe a few thousand, it would be better to go Ch-7 and get it out of the way......no one can touch your VA unless you have child support, but you will get dinged on your credit report trying to go this route about as much as just throwing in the towel and starting fresh.
  15. Ladies and Gents, this is another top reason to Never Ever go into a C&P exam without an IMO in hand or in file. You gotta shoot a rabid animal before it bites you, not after, and here the VA, after all these years are "skeerd" of us. Why now? Do they know something is going to change,or is there something else going on. This change raises more questions than the blanket answer that has been stated. Dealing with the VA, you need to go by the rule of boxing....Protect yourself at all times.
  16. My wife gives it out at the Richmond VA VAMC to Vets who have a script.......caught her offguard that it was MJ , she said it looked like a fish oil pill.
  17. It was announced today that the COLA for SS came in at 1.7%. I expect the VA will get the same once congress gets off their butts.
  18. As long as they have a printing press , we will get paid. What things may cost you is another story.
  19. My wife disperses VA government paid for cannibas at the VA in Richmond. It is in a gel pill form, and they have had some amazing results, and the benefits to the Vets are by far above those on Parma Meds with the same issues.
  20. Paper trail.........you might call them, you may have filed for it two years ago, but can you prove it? As bad as things are, I do not see them getting better until you push this.......Did I mention paper trail?
  21. Do what is best for you and yours. You should be good for a few years before the VA might decide to re-evaluate,in the meantime use that VA money to your benefit for later down the road.
  22. Gastone, I went through the ILP several years ago. Back then Idid not know as much about it as I should have, as I ended mine with a new puter setup, it was about 24 hundred back then, but it was top of the line suff. Several here have got on the ILP and received completely different awards. You need to make a list of the top things you need now, and a few things you want.......do not let the counselor try and snowball you, there was a CVA award on a vet that was denied a glass art studio attached to his home cuz he liked to paint, ILP said no because of the cost, BVA said yes and he got his studio at around 30k. I always thought ILP was a one time shot, but if memory serves, there was a case that said it did not. If you need a lawn tractor, then I would get an estimate of the outside cost to contract it along with snow, and show them that you can not afford that. Just because they stopped does not mean they can't do it, you may need to force their hand, even through appeal. I plan on going for round 2 next year.....cuz I like to cook :)
  23. What are you looking to get out of ILP......That is the bigger question. Awards vary, based on your want and needs, you just got to have a stick to your guns attitude to get the things you really need, and anything that is on your want list is a bonus.
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