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Veteran says VA accidentally listed him as deceased (TX)
KPRC News ^ | 06/81/2014 | KPRC

Posted on 06/18/2014 4:25:47 PM PDT by aimhigh

Every month for the past seven years, Joe Morris, a Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, has been receiving a disability check from the VAs.

Two months ago came the bizarre phone call that changed everything. "My mom called me up and said ‘Hey, you're dead.' I said ‘No, I'm not,'" Morris said.

The VA sent his parents a condolence letter.

(Excerpt) Read more at live5news.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: va; veteran
VA has death panels? Who knew?
1 posted on 06/18/2014 4:25:47 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

They must have killed the wrong guy.


2 posted on 06/18/2014 4:30:42 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

Ha!

Who says there are’nt ambitious people in government?

The bureaucrat was just saving time..


3 posted on 06/18/2014 4:34:49 PM PDT by CharleysPride (aut numquid tute es legere me translate)
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To: aimhigh
"They told me there was a computer glitch that had automatically classified me as deceased. They said they don't know what happened, it just did it on its own," Morris said.

I'm sure it's the same thing that happened at the IRS. Lost emails just did it on its own. Does this mean we have computers that are now becoming sentient?

4 posted on 06/18/2014 5:07:44 PM PDT by teacherwoes (Alethephobia-fear of hearing the truth)
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To: aimhigh

If the VA were run with a tenth of the attention Obama gives the IRS, every vet in America would be in peak health.


5 posted on 06/18/2014 5:48:38 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: mountainlion

They were trying to be proactive and to save those hard-working taxpayers money!


6 posted on 06/18/2014 6:13:24 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: CharleysPride

This killin’ time is killin’ me
Drinking myself blind, thinkin’ I won’t see
That if I cross that line and they bury me
Well, I just might find I’ll be killin’ time for eternity


7 posted on 06/18/2014 6:28:02 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
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To: mountainlion

Good thing he sent his clone in to take the appointment.


8 posted on 06/18/2014 6:29:08 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
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