Posted on 08/21/2019 4:44:02 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher
President Donald Trump will further ingratiate himself to America’s military veterans when he signs an executive order Wednesday wiping out all student loan debt for thousands who have been disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The action will be announced during a speech at the 75th annual American Veterans convention in Louisville, Ky., where he flew earlier today. The order directs the Department of Education to eliminate “every penny” of student loan debt for veterans who have been rated 100 percent disabled.
Currently, The Washington Times reports, there are some 40,000 vets nationwide who qualify for student loan debt forgiveness under actions taken by the Departments of Education and Veterans Affairs last year.
However, just a fraction of those eligible have taken advantage of the program and applied for the assistance.
In June, bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress that would wipe out all federal student loan debt for eligible vets whether they applied for the program or not, the Times said.
I’m guessing his disability was more than 10%. Great respect for your dad. Serious tinnitus can be bad, but just about anyone can get that rating at 10% if they complain enough so it’s an excuse for some just to get the disability card.
Where are these pushover VA employees?
The ones I dealt with acted like it was their own money and found every reason to dispute with you.
Maybe their bonuses were based on denying Disability.
The best benefit for us earlier era vets was the family tuition money for my wife and boys college, plus some expenses.
The process to get it forgiven is so complicated, it gets denied in like 80% of cases. It is a VA style scam.
After the military leftists come to base to push people to apply for disability, simply because it makes it harder to go back in Guard duty. Once you do that they do not provide the disability benefits and you cannot go back to guard duty. It is a catch22
My peers did not want any VA Disability when they retired.
They thought it made them look weak.
I watched a Guard unit demobilize.
They had been in Iraq for a year.
They just wanted to go home.
Declaring any medical issue kept them on Active Duty, sometimes for months.
So, the married Soldiers kept quiet about any problems so they could get home.
Declaring any medical issue kept them on Active Duty, sometimes for months.
So, the married Soldiers kept quiet about any problems so they could get home.
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Yes, remember it well....
The ‘Doc’ would give you a questionnaire and tell you to fill it out OR hand you a sheet of paper to sign a waiver with the choice being questionaire and we will set you up, waiver and you can walk out of here and catch the next bus to the main gate.
Well, being young and bullet proof and ready to go one heads for the bus.
Of course 30 years later when the little maladies start hitting you, you are SOL - for the most part.
Of course, in my day the records weren’t so good and the hernia op I had in Yokosuka Japan in 1959 was hardly visible and with the medical records I was allowed to keep you almost had to have been in the room to believe it.
As to my blowing up my head in the sub escape tank there was no record at all and I still ‘suffer’ from tinnitus.
Oh well...at least I do have VA now...
It’s not really accepting a handout. These vets are disabled. They can’t work or do much work at all. These loans will never be repaid anyway.
The president during his campaign stumps always mentions the “great”
Choice Program that he got the VA to approve for vets, where they could get seen by a doctor outside the VA if they so desired. Well the Choice Program disappeared last year and now the VA has what they’re calling the
Mission Act. Once again your VA doctor has to approve you being seen outside the VA. It is not up to you, it’s up to the VA doctor where you’re seen. And if the VA can do what you want done you’re not going outside the VA. I have a buddy who was getting steroid injections in his knees at an outside facility and the VA was footing the bill. He was told a few weeks ago the VA could give him the shots so he would now have to get them in the VA. The only problem is he can’t get an appointment for a month or two out, when he was getting them like clockwork when he was seen outside the VA. So now he waits with hurting for an appointment at the VA. I would suspect the new Mission Act will be just as good as the VA is good. Some are good and some ain’t worth a damn.
There’s far too little of that kind of pride today.
You must have been watching my unit demobilize... Don’t say anything or you will be here another 6 months was the word going around. Now I’m doing a claim after 14 years of pride...
No one deserves it more than the veterans, and it’s not a ton of money.
But, if a President Trump can forgive loans to veterans, what prevents a future Demon-crat President from forgiving the 1.5 Trillion in outstanding student debt? Remember, Obama took over the student lending function.
Doesn’t this fall under the budgetary responsibilities of Congress?
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