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VA: Veterans’ Benefits Will Be Suspended in Prolonged Shutdown
WRC-TV / NBC News ^ | October 8, 2013 | Scott MacFarlane

Posted on 10/08/2013 4:13:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Military veterans will lose many of their veterans’ benefits in “late October” if the government shutdown persists, according to newly-released U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs documents.

The VA has been continuing to make payments to veterans in the days since the Oct. 1 government shutdown, but agency officials say the pool of available money is dwindling.

“Claims processing and payments in the compensation, pension, education and vocational rehabilitation programs are anticipated to continue through late October. However, in the event of a prolonged shutdown, claims processing and payments in these programs would be suspended when available funding is exhausted,” said a statement from the agency’s public affairs office.

The impasse also threatens to further slow the VA’s backlog of overdue claims for benefits from needy veterans....

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: benefits; cic; compensation; military; obama; processing; shutdown; veterans
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Why do democrats hate Veterans?”

Because they’re all war-mongers!


21 posted on 10/08/2013 4:40:58 PM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

go after Vets, Military, Seniors good way to get yourself shot.

Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get Cut
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/10/07/social-security-warns-benefits-could-get-cut/


22 posted on 10/08/2013 4:42:39 PM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The jackasses are in full panic mode.
They're braying away on cspan and pretending to be all kinds of things.
Anything other than what they are :)

And now they're going to stop VA benefits and off the elderly...
23 posted on 10/08/2013 4:43:35 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Hidden Obamacare Taxes That Will Crush The Middle Class http://moneymorning.com/ob-article/obamacare-taxes.php?code=t-oc-taxes http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/08/morning-bell-why-is-obama-needlessly-scaring-seniors-about-social-security-checks/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaig
24 posted on 10/08/2013 4:48:35 PM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First cut benefits for congress and the retired members. Then the labor unions. The last one cut should be the military.

But we know that 0bama hates the military.


25 posted on 10/08/2013 4:48:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Sequoyah101
Yes, it's true. One of the 5 killed in Afghanistan this weekend is from Milwaukee.

Fisher House is providing grants to the families so they can fly to Dover to escort their loved ones home and bury them.

You can donate at www.fisherhouse.org

26 posted on 10/08/2013 4:51:22 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Didja hear the one about the 3 Senators who went to sign up for Obamacare? Yeah, me neither.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America now a communists run empire.


27 posted on 10/08/2013 4:55:22 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Being an old salt & shellback, I have plenty of adequate profanity for this, I just don't want to find myself banned for life from FR. PPOS isn't worthy of even the vilest and most disgusting words & sentiments.

He realy would serve this country well to go back to his Choom Gang and smoke his sorry a$$ to oblivion.
28 posted on 10/08/2013 5:03:54 PM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: Sequoyah101

According to Greta.


29 posted on 10/08/2013 5:26:23 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Veterans screwed by government again......we’re used to it.


30 posted on 10/08/2013 5:26:36 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Sequoyah101

“The House funded this last THURSDAY and Reed is letting it set and won’t bring it to a vote”.

Reid is the sorriest excuse of a human being in Washington. Sorrier than his POS pretender in chief “president”.

The crooked SOB was worth about $30,000 when he came to Congress. Through sweetheart deals, kickbacks, and paybacks from the Vegas mob he is now worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million. He’s lower than whale shyt and crookier than a snake.


31 posted on 10/08/2013 5:33:45 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Why do democrats hate Veterans?”:

Because most of them are Vietnam draft dodgers that despise anything to do with the military.


32 posted on 10/08/2013 5:35:06 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They can’t just kite a check?


33 posted on 10/08/2013 5:51:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama decided it was more important to send $450,000,000 to People’s TV than pay veteran’s benefits. It’s all about priorities.


34 posted on 10/08/2013 5:54:06 PM PDT by DManA (.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
crippled old WW2 vets turned away and yet an illegal alien rally to be allowed in DC....

people who vote rat may say their veterans, but they are not patriots...

that guythatwillnotbenamed is an arrogant piece of camel dung...

35 posted on 10/08/2013 6:13:11 PM PDT by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Sequoyah101
the govt is collecting just as much money now as it did a month ago.....I'd like to see a govt shutdown where my taxes are shut down...

we really do live in a totalitarian country...

thinking lately that I don't care much for America anymore....its not my America...

36 posted on 10/08/2013 6:16:10 PM PDT by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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He brought troops home from Iraq don’t ya’ know... /s


37 posted on 10/08/2013 6:17:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obumma has already suggested that to stop the pain of the shutdown and eliminate these so-called battles over the debt ceiling, he may have to take a new sort of action. I’m pretty sure he’s thinking dictatorial powers and martial law will solve it all and he’ll be worshipped as a demigod for saving America.


38 posted on 10/08/2013 6:42:39 PM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: Mygirlsmom

That is different. The bodies are being flown home by the military.

As for the Bereavement Pay the family could use to fly to Dover being withheld that is another matter.


39 posted on 10/08/2013 7:08:18 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And WHEN did they say that they are closing down the section 8 housing?


40 posted on 10/08/2013 7:14:49 PM PDT by SisterK (its all a spiritual war)
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