ptsd Disablity Review Commisson

[Guest fla_viking]

Dear Fellow Veteran & Friends.

The disablity reveiw commission stated it does not intent to cut or offset SSDI or VA comp. However it goes on to say it wants to study SSDI and VA payments for the same disablity.

I belive they want to look at those two and declare there is doubel dipping for the same disablity and that should be cult out.

Im sure what wont be studyed is. In the ORlando area it cost $275K for the average home. SSDI and VA comp dont pay enough for me and my kids to afford an average home. They should look at the tottal cost of liveing and maybe adjust upward the VA comp so vets can afford to live off of VA comp if that is there plan. Also because vets dont have judical review or courts to enforce VA law. Vets like my self are decades behind financially. You take the average american and wipe out 25 years of income due to silly and illgeal ruleing denying them payments. You would have a revolution on your hands.

They want to offset us and take comp away They should look at the real financial lost vets have suffered from due to the systems fraud and corruption.

The hidden cost of this commission study. Right now there are veterans out there suffering great emotional stress because they dont know if the lives they built and familys they made will be ended because someone feels they should not get the money they are now getting. One vet in Texas killed himself because of the stress of the PTSD reviews. Now congress did in the PTSD reviews state they were not gong to cut vetserans benifits even if they were awarded illegally PTSD. For the VA to make paper work errors and then years latter take a vets comp away was even for congress to crule. I hope they will make the same concideraton for todays vets and that they have after years of fighting the VA to obtain the benifits they now have. Those benifits are what support veterans and there familys now and it would be a great hardship to now change there minds and pull the rug out .

Terry Higgins

[john999]

You know my civil service disability retirement is already offset by the SSDI that I get. Am I going to get screwed twice on this thing via my VA compensation being offset by SSDI as well?

[Guest fla_viking]

Dear Jhon

Your offset of your civil pension. How long ago did that happen. When was the law passed. Did they grandfather clause those people in.? I feel it is one thing to up front state the other will offset each other. however to change after the fact our coverage after we developed lifes is a real crule action.

Terry Higgins

[john999]

Terry

Ever since the Federal Employee Retirement System came into effect in 1984 the SSDI offset to disability retirement from federal service has been the law. The old civil service system employees did not pay into SSA. My federal pension was reduced by 60% of my SSDI income. If a federal employee is out on workers compensation their SSDI is reduced to almost nothing.

[SLEDGE]

Personally,

I believe they are making up new reasons to distract us from the real issues.

Those ignorant studies have no real purpose other than to scare us and piss us off.

How many congressmen would get shot if we got screwed that bad?

I don't think they really wanna upset that many PTSD vets.

Stay focused on the real stuff like VA claims fraud.

sledge

[Guest fla_viking]

Dear Fellow Veterans & Friends.

The VA secretary on his own can chagne Title 38. He can use as a pretence the disablity review commissions findings as justitfacaton. And let the vet, congresss, and the VA point fingers after the fact our benifits are cut.

Terry Higgins