Anyone Know Where We Can Find A Good Atty For A Class Action Suit

[Philip Rogers]

The VA pays employees "actual" mileage traveled when using their privately owned vehicles (POV) for VA business and generally at a rate that is more than we receive. We get paid USPS PO to PO, thereby saving the VA millions of dollars yearly. I'm fairly sure it didn't start out this way but was eventually reduced to this method, as a cost saving measure. I'd like to find an atty and see what they have to say.

pr

[john999]

Yes, I am sure they don't have a deductible like we vets do. I never get a dime in travel because I live 15 miles from the VAMC. It still takes an hour to get there due to lack of parking.

[Philip Rogers]

John, you should get something, w/the new rate being 41.5 cents per mile. It may only be a few dollars each trip, for those first 3 trips, each month, but that forth one, and those after, could pay for a visit to Golden Corral, using your senior discount, of course.

pr

Yes, I am sure they don't have a deductible like we vets do. I never get a dime in travel because I live 15 miles from the VAMC. It still takes an hour to get there due to lack of parking.

[john999]

Last time I ate at the Golden hog farm I got food poisoning. Can I at least get a hamburger from the home of the Big Mac?

[LarryJ]

You want a good attorney?

I'm thinkin' here, okay?

still thinkin'

[Philip Rogers]

Very funny, Larry!!!!!!!!!!

pr

You want a good attorney?

I'm thinkin' here, okay?

still thinkin'

[purple]

I think that mileage thing has been fought quite a bit....all government employees get paid at a much higher rate than we do & they get paid for every trip...not just after the first 3 of each month. Just like when we were active duty and would go TDY...we got paid for each and every TDY; not just after the first certain few of each month.

I'm in the same boat as John. I live close to the VA...my first 3 visits aren't paid at all, the 4th one is paid at some ridiculous 1/2 rate (like $4 or $5) and then I would get paid the full price after that. Even I don't go to the VA more than 5 times in one month!!!

[john999]

I think a group of individuals have to file suit and then they have to get permission to get it certified as a class action suit. In a class action the lawyers get all the money and you get a check for about 60 cents, but it might change the behavior of the VA.

[LarryJ]

"the lawyers get all the money"

That is the first thing they taught me in Lawyering 101.........until I decided that I'd make a much better engineer......seems I spent more time AT the bar instead of studying FOR the bar.

[Philip Rogers]

I know and when someone says "it's not about the money," "it is about the money." I have enough. Between what the VA pays me and my SSDI (about $900 a month) I am very comfortable. My needs are small, as are my wants and I never, ever, confuse them. I believe when they started paying mileage they paid actual mileage and at some point the VA changed their policy as a cost saving measure. I used to operate an ambulance service and had to deal w/Medicare. They tried that town to town mileage sh*t but I won. The VA is screwing many vets. There are also vets, who live closer, that may be getting paid more than they should. I'd just like it made right. With all the programs out there like Mapquest, etc., they can do it right. jmo

pr

"the lawyers get all the money"

That is the first thing they taught me in Lawyering 101.........until I decided that I'd make a much better engineer......seems I spent more time AT the bar instead of studying FOR the bar.

[Pete53]

I have papers to file for class action for avandia that VA gave me.