More topics that vets gave testimony for the record on at the St. Petersburg, Fl. Disability Commission were:
Blue Water Vets.
Wet foot - Dry Foot.
BVA - Remands, instructions not honored.
Having an attorney from the get-go, and not having to wait until a BVA denial.
Transportation cost and reimbursement. - This concerned a much older veteran that traveled all the way from Illinois at his own cost to discuss:
his round-trip bus fair to his VA appointments was $5.40 and the VA would not reimburse him for this -- yet between either medicare or medicaid and VA -- they would pay a taxi $60.00 to transport him. He was VERY upset about this
Co -payments on health care and RX drugs.
Compensation denials.
VA does not ASSIST the vet in obtaining benefits, they instead use their resources to deny, deny, deny.
I was upset that NONE of the local media showed up to cover this event and phoned 2 television stations to make them aware of the commission and let them know there was a second meeting scheduled for the next morning. I also gave the media the Commission's Web site URL. I have still not seen any media coverage on it, probably won't. After all they are ONLY spending 16 million tax payers dollars on it.
If you go to the Commission's Web site and research the actual questions they are to study on and come up with some answers -- those questions don't even coincide with what the VETS are concerned with.
The head - honcho of the Commission, at one point stopped all discussion to inform us that the Commission was in no way set-up to begin finding ways to CUT vets benefits -- YEA, RIGHT -- HA HA like we believed that BS.
I did make 4 really good contacts at this meeting that ALL said they would like to do anything they can to help me with my claims. 1) was the VA advocate for Senator Bill Nelson, 2) was a female congresswoman, 3) was the St. Pete VARO manager, but he handed me off to a lower level VARO guy, 4) was the manager
of the Women's program at Bay Pines.
I will begin contacting all of these people next week and see if they REALLY can help me some, this would be great.
I still do not like this new board much BUT I love the fellowship of my hadit family.
It seems like you people are the only ones in my life that give a damn about the things that are so important to me, and I thank you all.
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More topics that vets gave testimony for the record on at the St. Petersburg, Fl. Disability Commission were:
Blue Water Vets.
Wet foot - Dry Foot.
BVA - Remands, instructions not honored.
Having an attorney from the get-go, and not having to wait until a BVA denial.
Transportation cost and reimbursement. - This concerned a much older veteran that traveled all the way from Illinois at his own cost to discuss:
his round-trip bus fair to his VA appointments was $5.40 and the VA would not reimburse him for this -- yet between either medicare or medicaid and VA -- they would pay a taxi $60.00 to transport him. He was VERY upset about this
Co -payments on health care and RX drugs.
Compensation denials.
VA does not ASSIST the vet in obtaining benefits, they instead use their resources to deny, deny, deny.
I was upset that NONE of the local media showed up to cover this event and phoned 2 television stations to make them aware of the commission and let them know there was a second meeting scheduled for the next morning. I also gave the media the Commission's Web site URL. I have still not seen any media coverage on it, probably won't. After all they are ONLY spending 16 million tax payers dollars on it.
If you go to the Commission's Web site and research the actual questions they are to study on and come up with some answers -- those questions don't even coincide with what the VETS are concerned with.
The head - honcho of the Commission, at one point stopped all discussion to inform us that the Commission was in no way set-up to begin finding ways to CUT vets benefits -- YEA, RIGHT -- HA HA like we believed that BS.
I did make 4 really good contacts at this meeting that ALL said they would like to do anything they can to help me with my claims. 1) was the VA advocate for Senator Bill Nelson, 2) was a female congresswoman, 3) was the St. Pete VARO manager, but he handed me off to a lower level VARO guy, 4) was the manager
of the Women's program at Bay Pines.
I will begin contacting all of these people next week and see if they REALLY can help me some, this would be great.
I still do not like this new board much BUT I love the fellowship of my hadit family.
It seems like you people are the only ones in my life that give a damn about the things that are so important to me, and I thank you all.
carlie
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