HadIt.com Elder LarryJ Posted August 18, 2009 Author HadIt.com Elder Share Posted August 18, 2009 I am waiting also ..I just got off the phone with My Union hall . I just made union due payments in the amount of 80 bucks - That Hurts,and was told By my Business agent.. if the VA moves and grants Me IU then I get My pension also. Boy I could use that rain storm also.. Now the "VA "has control on both .. . I get My MRI's done next week at the Buffalo VAMC .. they will see for themselfs how ripped up, I am in the pictures..then I expect a rain storm also.. If they are fair at all. Macool If you are not working then the union SHOULD have a dues category for you whereby you only have to pay a couple of bucks to keep your card current. I know that I've kept my IBEW card for years, paying on-the-back-burner dues, knowing I'd never work again, but proud of my membership! "It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadIt.com Elder cowgirl Posted August 18, 2009 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) After all these years, I too pray for 'IU rain' and its showers on deserving veterans. I celebrate any small amount of dignity the VA feels it can bestow upon clients who have the endurance to run the race. I pray for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and those that choose to live their life quietly, unobserved, having experienced horrors of what most historians gloss over. I am thankful to Hadit since 2006 for helping me understand benefits, for energizing me with personal struggles to get whats due and not giving up on my attempts to understand. I have recieved correct increases for my sc disabilities back to day of discharge, so far. From what I read, thats a nearly a miracle in itself! My percentages were sadly low at 20, then with much effort went on to 40, 60, and 90% - thanks to my Hadit family. Now I am a IU candidate. In my opinion all my military, medical and personnel records show since discharge, over a decade, since retirement, since my honorable military career - show that I deserve IU. That my family deserves IU. Hello? I am Cowgirl, veteran-retired, mother, wife and for 14 years have struggled with Unemployability due to major service connected disabilities. Edited August 19, 2009 by cowgirl For my children, my God sent husband and my Hadit family of veterans, I carry on. God Bless A m e r i c a, Her Veterans and their Families! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Done wit this Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 wish that were the case .. I pay the normal dues until I am granted IU then they are like 5 bucks a month...until then I have to come up with it. Macool "We should not have to fight the system, We fought to protect" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator broncovet Posted August 18, 2009 Moderator Share Posted August 18, 2009 Well, even if there is an "IU rain" I doubt if there will be enough to soak into this parched, dried ground of millions of homeless Vets, along with our brothers who have already taken their own life while waiting on their benefits. Remember, hadit members represent an extremely small sampling of the 25 million Veterans...or even the 1 million or so Veterans waiting on the VA to 'process" their claim. If I see the number of Vets waiting on benefits reduce from a million, back to about 400,000 where it was when the present administration took office, then I will begin to beleive in an "IU rain". If the number of backlogged Vets goes backwards..say to 200,000 or less, then I start thinking about doing a "I U rain- dance". I think the chances of reducing Veteran homelessness to zero in the next 5 years are nearly nil..as I said I will be happy if the backlog stops growing exponentially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadIt.com Elder Pete53 Posted August 18, 2009 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted August 18, 2009 We are witnessing a big shift in how the VA operates. I think that we can thank our current Secretary, Congress, the American people, the media and yes the President. Veterans deserve real choice for their health care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoonDoc Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 We are witnessing a big shift in how the VA operates. I think that we can thank our current Secretary, Congress, the American people, the media and yes the President. Well, I can't thank anyone in the government, but I got what I asked for...rain Larry, ya knew that was gonna happen...my non-specificity got me that time. BoonDoc BoonDoc Sailors see the World as 2/3rds full "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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