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Why? He is lying or just plain stupid. VA disability payments are NOT affected by shutdown. If what he says is true his disability rating would be either 100% or totally and permanently disabled which pays at 100%. That should be around $3.5K per month tax free. If he is neither of those there is more to this story than is being told. If he cannot work why is me not on SS disability. Also not affected by the shutdown. Get an attorney and eventually they agree and that is another $3.5K per month. If not on disability, again, there is more to the story or he is lying. National Guard and Reserve do not factor into this unless they are support staff on active duty. Their military pay is a few hundred per month and in terms of income is their secondary income not primary and if they are on SNAP it has nothing to do with being veterans. Locally the cost of living is low and there is an excess in base housing so they generally do not rate SNAP benefits anyway. High tax high cost Blue states maybe.

Since 9-11 and wide spread support for the military everyone who ever served regardless of the character of their service is a veteran especially for the freebies. Many get upset when asked for their ID or DD 214 to get the freebies. Not everyone who served is a veteran depending on character of service. Local business advertises as owned by a veteran as a vet I could care less if a business is vet owned. I know a lot of vets I won’t hire. Also kind of dumb in a military town with thousands of retirees and over 10,000 active duty. Occasionally I use VA medical. Nothing is more irritating then listening to to someone yelling I am a vet I deserve better service. Why? Why do you rate more than the other 50 people waiting with you. Yea I am jaded on this subject.

“VA disability payments are NOT affected by shutdown. If what he says is true his disability rating would be either 100% or totally and permanently disabled which pays at 100%.”

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Chief, I think I love you. Ya damn squid.

(in loving kindness from an Army earth pig)

There is much more to this story. Maybe he needs help, mebbe he don’t. He should have several thousand in medical disability, tax free, per month. Probably around $5-6k.

Kit

THANK YOU for the sanity. You are exactly right, and the VA has already paid out this month.

My other favorite is Active Duty on food stamps…..probably 50% of their pay (BAH and BAS combined) is tax free, AND they can shop at the commissary. So, it’s more likely Lance Coolie or Joe went out and mortgaged a Dodge Charger Scat Pack at 23% interest to impress his buddies or stripper wife.

And before the usual crowd shows up to whine I’m disparaging the troops - I’m a combat wounded vet with four combat tours, and as an NCO and SNCO had to deal with the ramifications of these children and their poor financial decision making on a regular basis.

The “married a stripper and mortgaged a car” stereotype exists for a reason. If they need to be on SNAP on Active Duty it’s likely due to poor financial choices.

Obamacare also opened the door a bit wider as assets are no longer considered for medical care benefits, just income.