Clothing Allowance Time Again

[JayBrown1]

I went to the Prosthetic Department at my local VA Medical Center as directed by letter I received. I took my damage clothes and was wearing my devices as I do daily. I was ask if I was wear my devices and I told them yes. He wrote on letter that I was wearing devices and said I will make you a copy to keep. I ask him don't you want to see my damage clothing, he said that's not necessary, I said yes it is and I pulled out every thing I brought with me and showed him. He then said ok, I make that copy now. I said first you need to annotate on the letter that you observed my damaged clothing, he said okay and wrote on it and said would you like a copy now and I said yes I would. Veterans, please make sure that they make note of all damage clothing otherwise they could deny you allowance just like they did last year with me. My appeal is still waiting a decision. I was receiving a clothing allowance for over ten years and when they changed to dual allowances I was denied one of them because they stated that it was not noted that I showed damaged clothing even though I did but because it was not noted it was denied so I only received one allowance.

[iceturkee]

Tampa sent me an approval letter on 14 Jun 13. According to the 800-827-1000 number, checks will b mailed from 1 Sept to 31 Oct 13. However, as "Ice" stated, he got his weeks ago and he's in FL.

The VA once again showing how negligent they can be.

ice is a she! LOL.

[TheImpaler]

ice is a she! LOL.

ICE I so apologize Please forgive me.

[iceturkee]

ICE I so apologize Please forgive me.

you are forgiven. :-)

[TheImpaler]

you are forgiven. :-)

Thank you

[cajunchef]

The VA keeps telling me a different story every time I call about my CA. I have been getting the CA now for some number of years and always got it in late August still have not got it as of September 9, 2013. The last call I made said they were sending some out but the holiday messed up some but they also said that some will not get theirs till late October. So I see some of you have got yours around the time that usually get mines so I guess if mines is not in the bank tomorrow I will have to get on the horn again and fine out what is going on with my CA.

[JayBrown1]

Just left the prosthetics department at my local VA med center to check on my clothing allowance and get a new back brace. First on the clothing allowance I was told that there was only one lady processing the clothing allowance and she is still working on both my appeal from last year and the dual clothing allowance for this year. I was told that she has a couple of thousand to clothing allowances to process and its going to take a while to get them done. I guess I shouldn't be expecting anything soon. Second on the new back brace, I guess they are trying to cut back on having to payout clothing allowances by making all the veterans that receive allowances get new braces that they claim will not wear out clothing. The brace that I was given they said will be just like the one I had. However, I had a rigid back brace and they gave me a soft back brace that caused me an increase in pain. So I had to great my primary care doctor to request a rigid brack brace for me. Got there and they tried to give me another soft brace stating that it was just as good as a rigid brace. I told them I didn't want to take that chance and that's not what the doctor ordered so they reluctantly gave me a rigid brace. It is sad that they are treating us this way. They know every year clothing allowances are coming up, you would think they would make adaption to get the clothing allowances done in a timely manner especially since they give us a deadline to get our applications in. Also, I don't feel that they should be cutting corners on our health and well being to save money.