tdiu Volunteer Tdiu

[MikeS]

Hi all:

My local VA outpatient clinic needs volunteers to do appointment reminder calls for 3 hours for 1 day.

Could this become ammunition to take away my tdiu t&p status??

Thank you,

Mike

[Pete53]

No it won't and its good therapy to get out and do something in my opinion.

[Patrick428]

However, with all the hubbub and sensitivity about PTSD and IU I would rethink your volunteer issues. All the VA needs to make a determination about your IU status is if you have the abilkity to engage in sbstantial gainful employment. We had a vet volunteer a few hours a week at the VAMC that I go to and lost his IU because they felt that he could do substantial gainful employment based on his volunteer work.

My suggestion is to volunteer to do the dishes at home or do some volunteer work at a church or civic organization. Stay away from the VA. Just MHO.

Patrick

[Pete53]

Patrick:

That makes sense but it did not used to be like that. I used to volunteer 4 hours a month at VA to do projects to help Patient Information get info to patients. I have been under the delusion that it had to me at least substantial enough to make a living? And that Volunteer work was ok.

[john999]

If you want to volunteer stay away from the VA and their prying eyes. There are things you can do and they are not going to know about it if you don't flaunt it in their faces. I agree that I would not volunteer at the VA and that's for sure. What about compensated work therapy.

[MikeS]

Hi all:

Thanks for the info.

I know what to do now.

Mike

[Guest rickb54]

I was offered a chance to go back to volunteer as a DAV service officer, once I learned that they needed me at the VA hospital as opposed to the chapter I told them sorry, no way. I know of some who get away with volunteering at the va but I just do not trust va employees to keep their mouths shut to the regional office no matter how nice they seem to your face.

In NC we had a veteran rated TDIU who worked 40+ hours a week, he even received a free car, and compensation for gas, and lunch. He was turned in to the regional office by someone, investigated and was cleared. today he is working at the national level of the dav as well as the local level. He is the adjudant of the State DAV office in NC, his name is Wally Tyson. He gets away with what he does because he is very policically active, right up to the Governers office. Most would lose their TDIU under the same conditions.