When Do They Take Your Money?

[free_spirit_etc]

I posted here quite some time ago about the VA taking money back out of my bank account for my husband's final check. I thought they had taken it. But they still haven't.

They placed a HOLD of the funds on my account (or probably more appropriately, they tried to place a hold on our joint account - and since that was closed the BANK placed a hold on MY account) - but they still haven't taken the money.

The hold was placed May 20, 2007. The hold is still there - and the bank says it will stay there until the VA either takes the money or releases the hold.

It seems odd that they would hold the money so long without taking it.

And it also aggravates me that they can keep an eternal hold on my money.

I wish they would either take it or give it back.

Every time I check my account balance I am reminded that I have money that the VA won't let me spend and there isn't much I can do about it.

Free

[free_spirit_etc]

Well - if they can't find the discharge physical - then they certainly can't say that his discharge physical showed he didn't have any problems when he exited the service.

So, if it really didn't show that he had any problems, like they had previously stated - it looks like they have lost a piece of evidence in their own pile.

Let's see - cancer diagnosed two years post service. No discharge physical showing good health on exit....

It doesn't "prove" anything. But it doesn't help DISprove our case either.

Or.... it didn't say what they say it said - so it disappeared.

Who knows..

Free

free,

I think that it is discusting that the VA would stoop so low as to take the money back.

It is just my opinion, but it looks to me that the VA deliberately delayed the decision on your husbands claim and how convenient for your husbands exit physical not the be in his C-File.

The VA thinks that the majority of us doesn't have the sense of a Mongoose and can figure these things out.

Always,

Josephine

[Josephine]

Free,

I am awfully sorry.

Always,

Josephine

[free_spirit_etc]

Nothing to be sorry about. If they do the discharge physical like they do the other physicals - they just go down the form and check all the little boxes as normal - then they can say you were okay, as if the doctor actually had really throughly examined you or something.

The lady that helped me look at the file at the VA tried to tell me that maybe they didn't DO a discharge physical.

Of course they DID a discharge physical.

That would be like saying they didn't do an entrance physical.

A couple C&P's have refered to the discharge physical.

One stated that my husband had stated that he reported fatigue at his discharge exam.

Another - the lung cancer pesudo-C&P stated that his discharge physical didn't indicate any signs of respiratory problems.

But again, if they don't HAVE the discharge physical - they certainly can't go quoting how wonderful his lungs were upon discharge.

So they can't use it as a link the the chain to try to disprove our claim.

It might even be in his file. I doubt they bothered to look. I imagine they figured that I had just looked at his file - and if I didn't find it - they wouldn't look for it.

If they deny the claim and then start spouting off how the discharge physical said this and the discharge physical said that - then they better dang well send me a copy.

Free

Free,

I am awfully sorry.

Always,

Josephine