tdiu Tdiu?

[bern381]

I was reading on another site that a person can work and collect TDIU as long as they do not work twelve months in a year. I know the basis behind TDIU is that people recieving it are unable to work. Rather than believe this, I wanted to con sult the wealth of experience on this website. Thanks, Bern

p.s. here is the link - http://www.veteransparty.us/VA%20Fight%20Back.htm

[Jay Johnson]

I see this as another example of the law saying one thing, but when the VA ignores said law, people let it slide and, therefore, the law has no meaning. The purpose of the law is to allow people who cannot work, due to disabilities, to TRY to work and/or to find different work that may not affect their disability as much.

If you feel you want to TRY to work, then do so.....if the VA comes after you for following their own regulations, then fight them!

It kills me that the VA constantly cries that they have too many people on the pay rolls, yet so many here seem ok with the VA not allowing folks to TRY to get better and/or adapt????

Seems like an idiotic circle to me.....

[SLEDGE]

"If you feel you want to TRY to work, then do so.....if the VA comes after you for following their own regulations, then fight them!"

Hmmmmmmmm.

Well, I have not figured out how to do any meaningful work, but that's not the point here.

After fighting this non-adversarial system for 3 decades I think it would be fruitless to expect anything other than 98% dysfunction from the VA.

I mean, it's at the point that nothing you do is right.

Whenever vets gain an inch toward receiving what the law allows, the secretary will issue new guidelines to set up a new reason to deny benefits.

And they don't have to inform us of any changes that are specifically designed to deprive us of something. Like they changed the requirements for VN agent orange vets to ,again, exclude all of the people that floated on water through the war instead of walking on land.

Let's get real here folks, defoliants came out of airplanes and it ain't rocket science to figure out how the high speed expulsion from a nozzle at 250 mph caused 'vapor'.

That change concerning agent orange was made in a sneaky manner because soldiers and sailors and airmen are required to have a certain level of intelligence before they can serve.

The VA has to operate one way and then publicly denounce the very behavior that they engage in.

What is the public supposed to believe?

What they can't see or hear compared to what we experience on a daily basis?

We are up against a criminal organization that was built up and is sponsored by our own government to do the exact opposite of it's stated purpose.

Anything that anybody dealing with the VA does, or does not do, is a potential for economic ruin.

Keeping all of that in mind, work a little if you can and get paid in cash.

Alfred E. Newman for President,

sledge

[Pete53]

Taking unreported cash for work can cause you a lot of grief. It is really not worth it when you think what you are risking. Not only the VA but the IRS can cause a lot of problems if you do this.

[Jay Johnson]

Well, this is something that would not only help vets, but it would also help the VA. Their ridiculous stance on work, here recently, is leading vets to stay out of the work force, when they may be able to get back into it. The VA benefits when they can get people off of the 100% payrolls and it just doesn't make sense to punish people who are *trying* to regain employment. On top of that, it's obvious the regs were thought up with this in mind......

When I think of the average veteran, I think of the concept of "learned helplessness". This is traditionally associated with people who become apathetic to their abusers, but it seems to be becoming more and more frequent with the VA......veterans seem afraid to speak up about obvious regulations violations for fear of more abuse from the system, so they keep their mouths shut and go with the flow (so to speak).

As a matter of practicality, I agree with you sledge, but one can't help but wonder where veterans will be, say 50 years from now, if we keep letting them walk all over us even when the congressional law is clearly on our side /shrug.

Edited June 2, 2007 by Jay Johnson