Travel Pay

[rattattat]

I was wondering,

if you have been treated at the VA for a health problem for the last five years and that same health problem is now service connected, can you receive travel pay for all of those past appointments that were related to the now serviced connected problem?

Sandy

[SLEDGE]

28 cents a mile is still woefully short of the actual cost of driving to the VA.

We should be getting whatever the VA gives out as expense money to the VA employees when they are asked to travel.

You can bet it's more than 28 cents.

sledge

[Pete53]

Sledge it was 11 cents a mile 6 months ago

[william n]

40 cents and change to emplyees..did you know that the gov't cars that are allotted to va employees have to perform XXXX miles a year or they lose them(the dept's.) so they routinely drive them on CRUISES to place miles on them..Just FYI im thinkin hopin to have Bill Levesque @the St. Pete Times do a story and expose them

Edited June 2, 2008 by williamn

[Philip Rogers]

Last I knew government employees receive .485 cents per mile, for using personally owned vehicle (POV).

[SLEDGE]

Pete,

It was 11 cents a mile for over 30 years.

I would like to know how often the VA employees get an increase?

I believe the difference between us and them constitutes prejudice.

But, we have to consider the wording in the regulations.

Nothing within the VA regs is written in stone, they all say 'MAY' and are paid at the whim of congress, not according to any law.

I would not mind giving up travel pay in exchange for reasonable healthcare.

As it stands now, the VA will be cutting out something else in order to finance the increase in travel pay.

sledge

[Pete53]

I wonder how many Veterans would quit going to the VA if there was no travel pay?