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Can One Make Any Money After Getting Iu?

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He's in hospice and he isn't IU? Something wrong with that picture in my opinion.

jerr

Yeah tell me about it. But as it was explained to me.....He got his disability rating when he left the military as in "The next day" it included IU. Well as I said he got bored and decided to give the finger to the VA and go to work. In doing that he lost the disability and the IU, because the VA now assumed he was completely well and was no longer disabled. When in fact he was. He just refused to continue his treatment through the VA and went back to work.

Like I said earlier he then lost the job due to a flare up in his originally SC'ed PTSD. But now the VA basically states the any disability arising after the end date of his original service connection can not be considered to have been service connected. The fact that the conditions previously SC'ed were improved to a point where they were no longer disabling as evidence by the Veteran returning to gainful employment for a number of years, stops him from getting SC for any of those disabilities again."

So now he's screwed......he's trying for SSDI but he probably won't last long enough for anything to come of that. :) Anyway that how it happened.

We are a Vietnam vet and vet's wife, we are not lawyers or VSO's we're just learning as we go.

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Sounds to me like he may not have reported his employment, which would be fraud and cause a loss of TDIU. Probably forever, if that was the case.

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Ummmmmmmmmm No it wasn't fraud! He just wanted to work, and stopped going to his VA appointments. I really don't like that you are insinuating he committed fraud.... Sorry but I'm a little annoyed by that comment.

We are a Vietnam vet and vet's wife, we are not lawyers or VSO's we're just learning as we go.

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Ummmmmmmmmm No it wasn't fraud! He just wanted to work, and stopped going to his VA appointments. I really don't like that you are insinuating he committed fraud.... Sorry but I'm a little annoyed by that comment.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm, it was "fraud" if he went to work and failed to report the fact to the VA and continued to receive compensation based on the IU. Even one compensation check. Even one.

"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

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My brother in law is also a vietnam vet, who got 50% SC'ed with IU to 100% from the day he left the military. A few years later being the bored young man he was, he looked for something to do, then got a job offer he couldn't turn down, worked there for 5 years before his PTSD screwed with him too much and lost the job. He's been fighting for 30 years to get his disability back, he now requires hospice care and isn't expected to last long.......He'll never get it back. So just be really careful O.K.

Maybe 60 percent with IU. No one gets 50 percent with IU.

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A Veteran is a person who served this country. Treat them with respect.

A Disabled Veteran is a person who served this country and bears the scars of that service regardless of when or where they served.

Treat them with the upmost respect. I do. Rejection is not a sign of failure. Failure is not an option, Medical opinions and evidence wins claims. Trust in others is a virtue but you take the T out of Trust and you are left with Rust so be wise about who you are dealing with.

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Hey Poolguy, I just wanted to make it clear that I assume the person asking the original question is not able to maintain substanial or gainful full time employment, even with IU it can be really hard to make ends meet, I am simply sharing my experience with IU and earning money, that's all.

I guess I always assume people here on hadit are above board and are not bludgers. Just trying to help..... :)

To me, what you wrote was something more or less as directing a veteran to "keep below the minimum income threshold" to commit fraud. This type of advice is nonproductive no matter how you try to rationalize it.

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