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.
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My guess is they had reasons for not applying.
This action looks like political theater on both sides.
Very similar to what happens with Veteran's Courts...pride gets in the way.
I can’t imagine what reasons they might have had for not applying. I think Trump’s action is good, since of course disabled vets should actually have been spared the whole process.
And of course it’s theater, but this is a good kind of theater, because it shows who Trump and all of us support....not the unemployable soy boy who ran up hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt because he never really had any interest in anything and also never really thought he’d have to support himself, but the guy who has actually done something with his life and has ended up paying a price for it.
The process to get it forgiven is so complicated, it gets denied in like 80% of cases. It is a VA style scam.
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.