Employment Questionaire

[john999]

I did not get my employment questionaire as I usually do around the first of January. I sent in the form myself after getting it off the VA website. I fear that the VA may be playing games with these forms. If your form is past due you may want to submit it yourself since if you don't the VA can claim they sent it to you, and try to reduce you. I do not trust these people as far as I can throw them. My VARO has claimed I missed C&P exams in the past after not sending me notification, so it is not out of the question for them to claim they sent me the questionaire when they did not send it.

[LarryJ]

I was sitting here with my cup of coffee and my dog....thinkin...

Wondering if there was anything that I needed to do this day. You know, any bills I hadn't paid, any oil in any of the cars needin changin, any pet that hadn't been petted, any itch that hadn't been scratched.

And, lo and behold, I actually thought of the very thing that you have brought up, wonderin if the form was on the VA web site.

And, should I send it in? I've not been 100% for long enough for them to have sent me one, yet.

Do I wait for them to send me my first one, or do I nip it in the bud and send MY first one to them?

Or, do I leave sleepin dogs lay, in hopes that they will just let this old man slide by?

DO NOT want to go stirrin pots that don't need stirrin, ya know.

[john999]

Larry

If you are 100% schedular you don't have to worry about it. It is just for those who are TDIU like me. I would not send the VA a thing is you are schedular unless you are asking for housebound.

John

[Berta]

John-the VA WAS playing games with this form-

they were found sending the forms out close to or even past the response date-

so even if a vet responded to this form when they got it-, the VA would tell them they were proposing to reduce them because they didnt respond in time.

This crap was at VA watchdog- a few months ago- as to how the VA had to rectify it.

We saw this here at hadit too-

we had a few vets who either didnt even get the form-or who were told they didnt send it in on time and therefore VA proposed to reduce their comp-

And it was the VA itself who had failed to give the vets enough time to respond. I think VA had to make a statement at their web site too-to correct this additional VA practice of somehow trying to keep what is rightfully due a veteran.

I hope the new Sec can put a swift foot up some of their -----well- lets hope he can show the leadership we have been denied.

Some of the stuff VA pulls on us is not a mere fluke or a single incident of incompetence-I think some of this crap is well planned.

[jbasser]

I did not get my employment questionaire as I usually do around the first of January. I sent in the form myself after getting it off the VA website. I fear that the VA may be playing games with these forms. If your form is past due you may want to submit it yourself since if you don't the VA can claim they sent it to you, and try to reduce you. I do not trust these people as far as I can throw them. My VARO has claimed I missed C&P exams in the past after not sending me notification, so it is not out of the question for them to claim they sent me the questionaire when they did not send it.

I would do the same thing John, Be pro-active.

J

[Testvet]

I haven't even been sent my SSD review notice I am never going to be cleared to return to work not with my extensive problems I think with my ejection fraction of 25% I am on the 7yr review plan maybe it's due this year I have been out of work for a decade it seems, yea I have the 100% schedular so I am safe from the IU forms, I have the BVA hearing next month for my cardio problems then hopefully I will end my exchange of paperwork with the VA except for the monthly deposits, the less I have to do with them the happier I will be

here is a link to a success story it took this widow less than a month to get her DIC awarded that must be a record

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/6/181...0259/465/680919

some of you all helped me with the answers a few weeks ago thank you 3.307 and 3.309

[Chuck75]

"Some of the stuff VA pulls on us is not a mere fluke or a single incident of incompetence-I think some of this crap is well planned."

This sort of thing and others with the same end of reducing or denial of benefits has been going on for decades. It cannot be considered mistakes, isolated incidents, or any of the other weak excuses the DVA gives. The only logical conclusion is long term conspiracy and intent to defraud veterans and their survivors on a massive scale. After my father (a wwii veteran) died, I found records showing similar practices by the VA existed in the 1950's.

If the VA could not hide behind "sovereign immunity" and other laws designed to limit government and specifically DVA liability and accountability, things might be a lot different. The DVA and other government agencies choose to forget that they are accountable to the citizens as well.

John-the VA WAS playing games with this form-

they were found sending the forms out close to or even past the response date-

so even if a vet responded to this form when they got it-, the VA would tell them they were proposing to reduce them because they didnt respond in time.

This crap was at VA watchdog- a few months ago- as to how the VA had to rectify it.

We saw this here at hadit too-

we had a few vets who either didnt even get the form-or who were told they didnt send it in on time and therefore VA proposed to reduce their comp-

And it was the VA itself who had failed to give the vets enough time to respond. I think VA had to make a statement at their web site too-to correct this additional VA practice of somehow trying to keep what is rightfully due a veteran.

I hope the new Sec can put a swift foot up some of their -----well- lets hope he can show the leadership we have been denied.

Some of the stuff VA pulls on us is not a mere fluke or a single incident of incompetence-I think some of this crap is well planned.

Edited January 7, 2009 by Chuck75