Travel Pay

[halos2]

I had appts for one day, called last week and found out 3 days in a row now, so requested lodging, they said ok 1 night...I go to my appts today and to the travel window to get my travel, and the FAT Ugly Old Bit*h tells me you got lodging for tonight no travel pay for you...What if I had an empty gas tank, or no $ to eat on...this old BIT*H always fuc*s with vets $$.

What about meal $$?

So if you get lodging you can't get travel pay for the first day.

I'm gonna ask her if she is a VET tomorrow, if she says no I'm gonna say well the VA needs to hire VETS only for these positions, and I think I will ask how a vet can get your job.

Will I get in trouble if I call her an overweight non-intelligent non-active beiach??

I want to so bad in the am, before my appts I'm going to see the dumb azz.

She is the one who asked if I rode with another vet with the same last name...look at the address beiach!

Is it one or the other? If I got my pay for travel today I could have eaten other than McDonalds. I know I couldn't get it tomorrow too as I was to stay the night.

Will post tomorrow, on this subject, but may get pulled out of VA for telling the fat azz the truth.

How do you find out if one has their file flagged??

[LarryJ]

Hi Halo,

You get one lot of travel pay and as many nights lodging as you need.

3 days of appointments = 2 nights accomodation/lodging + 1 lot of travel pay.

3 days of appointments = 1 night aoccomodations + 2 lots travel pay.

It all defpends on how they want to play it. Tell them if they won't give you two nights of lodging like you need then you will be claming your travel pay because you will have to return home and travel to the appointment again. Throw it right back at them.

We have had some big problems with travel pay and lodging but we checked up on our rights, and found the law and threw it at them, They shut right up and stopped B*tching to us everytime we went to collect our travel. Some staff act like the travel pay and lodging is coming out of their own wallet. As long as you are entitled to it it is your money not theirs....You earned it.

Do not take a no from someone who can't say yes. If she refuses to co-operate then state that if she doesn't give you what you are entitled to then you will go to the director office. If she still doesn't help you then GO TO THE DIRECTOR's office. I don't know why people put up with crap like this everyday from VA staff. You have rights too. There is a patient advocate too. If your advocate is useless like ours is just go straight to the director and refuse to leave. If they tell you the director is not there then ask for there acting director, because there is always an acting when the director isn't available.

I don't know about y'all, but, at the Dallas VAMC they have this game and it's called:

"BETCHA CAN'T FIND THE TRAVEL PAY OFFICE"

I mean, c'mon folks, I'm there, at the VAMC a MINIMUM of twice weekly (which I do not receive travel pay for, BTW) and they have different signs up, pointing in different directions with different instructions as to where to go, darn near every time I show up.

It's kinda like, when my kids were little, we'd play "which hand is the candy in"!

[Testvet]

telling her off may feel good until they put you on the escort list and they have a VA policeman meet you at the door every time you go there and go into every doctor office with you before long the VA police will know more about your illnesses and medical problems than you will, is that what you really want? go to the directors office and have them straighten her out it is NOT worth the trouble it will cause you for you to tell her off getting labeled a trouble maker will make your life hell

[Pete53]

Larry:

I can find the travel pay office anytime. Its always the place where hundreds of Veterans are milling around waiting and waiting and waiting

[Philip Rogers]

Ya know, you can always just mail in your travel pay requests and avoid the standing in line. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if travel personnel are embezzling money from the travel pay office, by submitting pay slips for vets they deny or that don't pickup their pay. It would be so easy to do. Could be split w/the agent cashier. jmo

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[deltaj]

I had appts for one day, called last week and found out 3 days in a row now, so requested lodging, they said ok 1 night...I go to my appts today and to the travel window to get my travel, and the FAT Ugly Old Bit*h tells me you got lodging for tonight no travel pay for you...What if I had an empty gas tank, or no $ to eat on...this old BIT*H always fuc*s with vets $$.

What about meal $$?

So if you get lodging you can't get travel pay for the first day.

I'm gonna ask her if she is a VET tomorrow, if she says no I'm gonna say well the VA needs to hire VETS only for these positions, and I think I will ask how a vet can get your job.

Will I get in trouble if I call her an overweight non-intelligent non-active beiach??

I want to so bad in the am, before my appts I'm going to see the dumb azz.

She is the one who asked if I rode with another vet with the same last name...look at the address beiach!

Is it one or the other? If I got my pay for travel today I could have eaten other than McDonalds. I know I couldn't get it tomorrow too as I was to stay the night.

Will post tomorrow, on this subject, but may get pulled out of VA for telling the fat azz the truth.

How do you find out if one has their file flagged??

Would this be considered beneficiary travel? If so then under 38 CFR 70.20 (a) a claimant may apply for beneficiary travel pay orally or in writing. You have to supply receipts for each expense under 38 CFR 70.30 (d). YOU GOT CHEATED OUT OF THIS BENEFIT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU NEEDED TO KEEP COPIES OF YOUR RECEIPTS FOR MEALS AND LODGING. I suggest that all veterans here read 38 CFR 70.20 (d) and 38 CFR 70.30 (a) (3) concerning reimbursement for meals and lodging. I suggest that you get a copy of the signed request for travel pay and advise this individual in writing that you had orally requested reimbursement of meals for a particular number of days and lodging for a particular number of days under 38 CFR 70.20 (a). Also advise her that you are requesting reimbursement of meals and lodging under 38 CFR 70.20 (d), and 38 CFR 70.30 (a) (3). Also advise her that since your claim for beneficiary travel pay has been denied that you intend to appeal to the Board of Veterans Appeals under 38 CFR 70.40 . Under 38 CFR 70.20 (f) there is a 30 day time limit for applying for payment of beneficiary travel. Make certain that you make photocopies of all receipts you submit to v.A. for payment of beneficiary travel and keep those copies for your records.

Edited March 3, 2010 by deltaj

[halos2]

Gosh all thanks for all the + replys will fill you in:

So I went to the travel pay office as advised in the morning of 2nd Mar and guess what?/ The bietch tells me to you get it tomorrow when you leave...I said you told me to come back this morning before my appts so I want it NOW!! TOO bad she says, so I said I had to pay over $22. for my dog to stay with me so I need a meal voucher, she said no, I said then give me 1/2 of my travel, no she replied, so I said give me your supervisor, I went and told her and she said we are paying for 2 nights for your stay, and you get 1 travel voucher tomorrow, I told her give me food one's as I was out of cash forgot my purse had no ID on me(was the truth, still can't find it at home from sun night) and I said look I need at least half of my travel, so she finally gave me half...WTF, like stated here by others it is not their $$.

I did have some cash hid in my auto but if I needed to get home I needed to get gas, and we are talking principles here. Thanks for the info with the reg listed too.

Funny when I looked at the voucher it lists meals or lodging, never paid attention to it before.

Crazy thing is I could have gone there each day, gotten travel pay, left and paid VA hosp rate at hotel, paid for my dog, and still had $12. left over twice for paying 2 nights, and $105. for my C&P travel cause no deductibles...so being honest I got 2 nights lodging, and 1 day travel pay paid over 44. dollars for my dog and didn't even cover my gas for round trip and forget my meal costs...

Next time fu*k the lodging. I'll get travel each day. Can't try to be honest with a bunch of low life crooks.

Oh by the way when I went to get my travel 1/2 prior to leaving the beitch wasn't there but a nice lady and a different creep, so I said to the nice lady what is your name your name tag is turned around, so she fixed her tag, and told me her name whit a very perplexed look on her face, and I said you are a kind and polite person to all vets not like the other 2 mean hateful rude females that work here!! She looked back at the other creep, and said thank you to me.

I proceeded to tell her it was pleasant speaking to a genuine honest person, all along while watching the creep give me dirty looks...as the next vet came to the window I told him to get Marilyn to wait on you as she is a nice lady not like the mean rude other 2 that work here!!!!( BTW Marilyn is older than the other two and they got to be in their 50's) Really wanted to find out if the other 2 are vets...but not able to then.

Also their supervisor is a vet, and she is somewhat abrasive too...where are the nice people at the VAMC?? Too far and few between.

Edited March 5, 2010 by halos2