Re: $250 Stimulus Payment For Service-Connected Veterans

Start Thinking Right ^ | April 15, 2009 | Michael Eden

[Brucifer]

Are those friends of yours? They look like a bunch of hippies. I know, they want to change the world, but all they really do is smoke dope and smell bad.

Frankly, I hope somebody got W a presidential quality doobie for his first night of unemployment. He's earned one after eight years of the toughest job in the world.

[Michael Eden]

The VA is disbursing the money directly to veterans.

Apparently federal and postal retirees are getting one too, altho I thought it will be a credit on 2009 taxes. Kiplinger.com had an article on this a week ago.
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For other working people, the money WILL come as a tax credit.

But you raise a good point. What about veterans who work? I didn’t ask. But from the gist I got from the Veterans Rep, the VA is sending out $250, and thus veterans wouldn’t deal with a credit.

But I could be wrong.

Thank you for bringing that up.

[justanothervet]

yeah, it’s nice that they thought of veterans...but as usual, we come in last to get ours, after social security, ssi, and railroad retires, guess vets were added as an afterthought....thanks...?

[Michael Eden]

justanothervet,

I’m not quite sure why they did it this way, but I can tell you than a great many veterans received the stimulus as part of their tax refunds. It is those veterans who don’t file income taxes (such as certain retirees) who are receiving the stimulus a couple months later. The idea was to make this about workers’ (rather than welfare, which I agree with) which included retired/disabled workers such as veterans (and anyone who was ever a grunt knows veterans “worked” like dogs - and I mean sled dogs on an Iditarod). I never worked harder or longer than when I served in the infantry.

The VA was given control over disbursement. Why they are paying later is a good question.