Posted on 05/19/2013 9:51:41 AM PDT by Whenifhow
You know what the IRS is really great at? Breaking its own laws. In addition to targeting conservative groups, the corrupt government agency has also been singling out disabled veterans. They do this by using banks to launder and then stealing the veterans’ disability checks.
Shameful.
The Veterans Disability Act of 2010 exempts VA disability from withholding of any sort. But the IRS has been stealing disabled veterans’ money anyways.
Kevin Lake is a 60% disabled veteran of the Iraq War. A few months ago, he noticed that his VA disability check had not been deposited, and that his bank account was in the negative. Lake contacted his bank, and was told that the IRS demanded all of the available funds be taken out of his account and wired to them. A confused Lake then called the IRS, and was placed on hold for a long time (bureaucratic government agencies tend to be efficient like that!) before he was finally able to speak with an agent. The agent claimed Lake had made $157,000 in 2010 and that he owed them money. Funny, since in 2010 Lake was still in the hospital recovering from injuries he’d sustained while in Iraq — he earned less than $10,000 that year.
Le After telling the IRS agent that VA disability money is 100% exempt, Lake was placed him on hold for another substantial chunk of time (surprise, surprise!) and was then told, “We do not take veterans’ disability money. We wait until the funds are deposited from the VA and then we take all of the funds from your bank account.”
Bureaucrat language for: “We stole your money.”
Lake was a contributing writer for key Tea Party personality “Joe the Plumber”. This likely played a role in Lake being targeted and stolen from by the IRS. Oh, never mind — I forgot that “partisanship or the perception of politics has no place in the IRS”, as acting commissioner Steven Miller put it.
Give me a break.
After a lot of persistence, Lake was eventually successful in having the IRS give back the money they stole. But other disabled veterans may be victims of this disgraceful (and seemingly partisan) crime. Vets fought tirelessly for all Americans, but now they are being forced to fight for themselves.
Someone must be held accountable for this obvious, disgusting government corruption
This has to stop!
Good God.
This needs to be distributed.
If this has happened to one disabled veteran, you know it has happened to more.
Very good point. Don’t keep them in the same place.
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This sounds highly inappropriate.
Surely the GOP will do nothing.
“Here’s a clue....if you get a disability check, a social security check, etc. Open up a separate account at a separate bank from the bank you use for savings, checking, etc. It isn’t fool proof, but it gives you enough time to do electronic panicking/withdrawal if you see evidence of this.”
This is a good suggestion. A couple of years ago we had a local Maddoff, who fleeced investors and people who worked for him. The State of California and IRS took owed state/federal taxes and money equal to what he should have paid for his employees withholdings. This was his 80 year old mother’s money, her own from a sale of a home, SS and her dead husband’s pension because he was just an approved signature on her accounts in case she was unable to access/use her accounts. A side note, he took what the IRS and state of California left.
While the author of this article is extremely cute...we still need proof before sending it to a congressman.
By the time you see evidence, it’s too late.
Master Speaker may take a break from holding court in the cry room and go have a smoke!!!
The country is bankrupt and to delay the inevitable and to protect their fuehrer, they decided, literally, to rob Peter and pay Paul. Not so bad if you are Paul.
Here is an article written by Kevin Lake
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/disabled-veterans-have-checks-stolen-by-irs/
What’s one to expect when one’s government is over-run with criminals?
Indeed.
The Crier of the House certainly does not have much to say on any of this.
In fact, the only thing I am aware of is who is going to go to jail for this? To which I would say, you tell me, John, that’s your job.
GOP, you had best get your ass in gear.
The IRS needs to be squashed and obliterated. There is no reason to give such a corrupt agency the kinds of power it can wield in the lives of America. No govt agency should be given this type of power.
Arrrrr....this pisses me off!
No it is not. That’s foolish. I watch my bank accounts and credit cards daily for processing and pending transactions.
The IRS gets your bank account numbers from your SSN and primarily from any information that you have given them for direct deposit of your tax refund, etc. They glom other information first from the SSA where you might get a disabiity or SSI payment or any other such payment.
They then look for other possible accounts that match your SSN (which is not supposed to be used for identification.
I said you should have a sole secondary account into which you should have your recurring government deposits put - separate from where you have other monies, in other institutions. I stand by that. I have my ‘notitification triggers at one of my banks’ set so low, I get instant emails nearly all the time. The IRS is just not that fast.
And here is a yahoo article
I understand your concern and I share it
but this looks legit
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-irs-launders-veterans-disability-checks-12136745.html?com=5&cat=17
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