Is Anyone Else Using The Va Ebenefits Site Yet?

[Bill (USAF Retired)]

I happened across this during my online wanderings, and it's awesome.

http://www.ebenefits.va.gov allows me to check my VA claim status, check my VA pay status for disability compensation, GI Bill and voc rehab, pull a home loan eligibility certificate, pull a copy of my Air Force service record (I'm retired), and other stuff. I've been kicking the tires on this for an hour or so.

Bill

[john999]

Larry

You are on a list. It is called list of potential pains in the ass. The VA keeps this list in secret vault. We are all in it here at Hadit. You are lucky your identity as a vet was not erased. Just keep it up. You will be hearing from the VA/Seal team around 3am when you vanish with only your hat spinning around on the floor. The ninjas are going to get you.

[LarryJ]

Larry

You are on a list. It is called list of potential pains in the ass. The VA keeps this list in secret vault. We are all in it here at Hadit. You are lucky your identity as a vet was not erased. Just keep it up. You will be hearing from the VA/Seal team around 3am when you vanish with only your hat spinning around on the floor. The ninjas are going to get you.

I'm taking my hat with me! They can take my identity......even my heart and mind, but I ain't goin nowhere witout me hat! :)

[Vync]

:) :ph34r:

[Michellee]

So you are kidding right???????? What is the stupid list and how do you get on it. What is the purpose of it. Does that make you a combatant? Like you are terrorizing the VA. I never heard of such a thing.... Are you serious??? :)

I thought that I'd give this EBenefit thing a try. You know, expiring minds like mine need to know, right?

So, I filled out the stuff to give me "Level One Access"..........................no go.

"Why", I wanted to know, could I not EVEN get "Level One Access"?

So, I called the telephone number that it lists on the web site for if you have any questions.

Come to find out, I don't NEED "Level One Access", 'cause I'm already in the DEERS system (I'm Viet vet but I have already applied in person at the NAS, Ft. Worth, for my MWR card and that got me into the DEERS system, even though I'm "pre-1982").

So, I say, "Okay", and proceed to fill out the application for "Level Two Access". Now, this should be NO PROBLEMA, si'? I mean, after all, I'm in the DEERS system, I don't NEED the "Level One Access", right? So, I should be a shoe-in for the "Level Two Access" and a happy recipient of the benevolence of the VA in "granting" me the ability to "participate" in their diabolical little exercise, RIGHT?

So, any way, I fill out the app for "Level Two Access", okay?

And, it tells me that I need "In Person" recognition or whatever they called it. That I'd have to go to the VA for this to happen, so, I goes to the VAMC here in Dallas, and I goes to the desk where they did my "In Person" recognition thing for my HealthEVet access. They doan know nuttin, have never heard of DEERS, or the Naval Air Station, Ft. Worth, or the EBenefit Program, nor do they want to know. But, they tells me to go to the Medical Library, that they do "In Person" stuff there, so I do, with the same results. BUT, the lady there did tell me that she had actually heard of this program, the EBenefit thing, and that I'd have to go to the Regional Office in Waco, that they did the "In Person" thing there. So, I looks at my watch, see, and I decide that I have time to drive 120 miles (ONE WAY) to the RO and get this crap DONE (after all, by now I have HOURS invested in this deal, right?).............so, I do......................................

.................only to be told that I'm on their "Very Stupid Person List" (they called it something else, but by now I'm not HEARING YOU!) and that, seeing as how I'm an accredited veterans service officer that I am not allowed to access ANY information that is remotely connected to ANY thing with MY Social Security Number attached thereto.

and, the beat goes on, and the beat goes on...........pounding rythym to my BRAIN...................

I jist wanna get outta this place, if it's the last thing I EVER DO!

Valium is good, yeah...............

[JustPLS]

Now why, may I ask, do you think that they told him to come back in a month?

And your point? Feel better?

[Rockhound]

Like others, after listening to my SO, who broght up the subject, since I completely clueless to this new information, I to was sent to those who sign up Vets for MyEHealth and like them, they knew nothing about it. So after Q&A to anyone who may have some knowledge of this program, I finally went to my VA regional offices and did the inperson sighn up, only thing is, it appears the system isn't quite ready to fly, at least in my area, but hae, I'm at least on a list and will be notified when things are up and running. Maybe by then everyone will know what to say and do for the rest of those who like me were clueless.

One thing I'm not going to do is to sit by and hope they don't loose my name or the list I am supposed to be on. You can bet that I will be bugging them every week or so, just to keep them honest as I can. LoL

Rockhound Rider :)