Posted on 10/13/2009 4:29:10 AM PDT by Doogle
In response to the hardships caused by delays in delivering GI Bill benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs began issuing advance educational benefit payments to veteran-students in the form of US Bank business checks. These emergency checks are being issued in amounts up to $3,000 for veteran-students who have applied for GI Bill benefits and who have not yet received their VA payment. VA's 57 regional offices began issuing these checks to eligible Veteran-students across the country on Friday, October 2, 2009. Unfortunately, many veterans have found it nearly impossible to cash the VA checks. To help with this latest snag, the VA has established a special customer service call-in number (1-800-827-2166) for banks to verify the validity of any US Bank check brought to them by a veteran. Banks calling these numbers will be connected directly to a VA employee who can access to all necessary information to verify who the check was issued to, the check number and dollar amount of the check, and whether the check was previously cashed or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Government healthcare strikes again. We should start a ping list.
These are not advancepayments as the article states. They should have been made in august. Why the va keeps calling them advance payments confuses me. Must be some kind of pr thing.
lipstick on the pig
obama’s boy shinseki should have fixed this when it failed in august
I really would think that with all the money the government has been printing lately, they could find a couple of billion laying around somewhere to adequately fund the VA.
Ah, the wonders of our (bankrupt) munificent government!!!
Sounds like the VA is writing IOUs to the people who voluntarily put themselves in harm’s way to serve this nation. H#ll of a way to say “thanks”!
Isn’t part of this their own contributions? How does that work these days?
Thanks for your service!
The va has plenty of funding—it employs a quarter million people (and that does not include countless contractors). It needs to put vets first and bureaucrats second.
Did you know they hold regular meetings at the st regis?!
not real sure of the details today, but here are some Q&A’s on the VA’s site.....in my day there was no contribution while on active duty, it was a straight-up benefit/entitlement due and payable after discharge
https://www.gibill2.va.gov/vba/vba.cfg/php.exe/enduser/index.html
My son served in the Navy for 6 years. He is out now and trying to finish college. He has had nothing but trouble trying to get those promised benefits for serving.
It is a shame when the government has become so dishonorable. Obama’s big banks and corporate buddies sure haven’t had these problems.
“I got mine!” —from an “Our Gang” short
All this mess makes me kind of glad I wasn’t eligible for this benefit, though I am sad for my fellow veterans.
“and whether the check was previously cashed or not.”
Umm... How would this ever happen? Just a babbling journalist?
dunno
My son’s been back to school almost two months and still no check. He is fortunate to have a job and us to keep him going until it comes in.
Same thing is happening with the $8,000 first time buyer checks. I know people who have been waiting months for those also.
The government sucks.
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