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VA Turned Me Down

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
My medicine is $245 a month so i applied for the VA. They turned me down saying i made to much money. I made less than 5000 last year. That is crazy. Oh well i tried.
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sometimes you run into agencies trying to balance the budget on the backs of those who they are supposed to serve. Social Security, for several years, denied everyone who applied for disability, simply because many of them just went away, or died......

    File an appeal. Write to your senator or congressperson. Be the squeaky wheel....

    Yes, that IS crazy; you would need to double that to come up to the poverty level.

    Neal
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Change your name and claim your a illegals and Obama will give you everything free at the cost of the American taxpayer
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The wife worked with folks in dire need of SSI support for a few years. The scam is that you are denied, you get a lawyer, you get back benefits from the time of your first application and the friggen lawyer pockets most of it.

    One corrupt hand washes the other.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a 50% Service Connected Disability, and they pay for all my meds now.

    Trinity +++
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, raise a stink. Your a Veteran, you deserve better than crap from bureaucrats.

    Call your Congressman, Senators, news media if you have to.
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  • 1BigGuy1BigGuy Member Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    Try again Dave. You deserve better.
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  • kabarkabar Member Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't give up. They do everything they can to get you discouraged so you say forget it. Keep appealing it.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep. A squeaky wheel will get greased.
    But an obnoxiously loud, ear shattering wheel will get quick attention.
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  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    Dave, the policy of the VA is to deny everyone the first time they apply, the hope is that they will not come back. But if you continue applying they will accept you. I was medically discharged after a accident but it still took 20 years of filing and denying for them to give me my 100% rating.
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  • JasonVJasonV Member Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    VA eligibility for health care is pretty straightforward.
    It is actually quick and easy, Can be done on line or in person.


    IRS tax records are used now for income review if you don't qualify for one of the other reasons.
    formerly known as warpig883
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Actually, VA sends a file of those who receive income-limited benefits to Social Security every year, & SS returns a file with how much they earned the previous year.

    Don't ask how I know. [:I]

    Neal
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try again with a Congressman or Senator. If possible try to avoid the slimy lawyers Don McManus mentioned, but if necessary hire one of them too.

    My mother-in-law had to turn Jesse Helms loose on the SSA to get SSI.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dav1965
    My medicine is $245 a month so i applied for the VA. They turned me down saying i made to much money. I made less than 5000 last year. That is crazy. Oh well i tried.


    That doesn't sound right at all. Out of curiosity, I went to the VA's site and checked to see what their limits were for me to receive financial assistance.

    Eligible for Cost Free Meds and Beneficiary Travel - Veterans not Receiving Aid & Attendance or Housebound Benefits Pension Threshold $12868

    Eligible for Cost Free Medical Care National Means Test Threshold $31978


    There's something missing......does your wife work?
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  • cndrdkcndrdk Member Posts: 81 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hope this isn't the case, but heard about an old WWII vet brought by his family to the VA hospital for care. After filling out all the paperwork and having the paperwork checked by the VA, it was determined, RIGHT war, but WRONG side.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yea my wife works and she makes over 40,000. We also have 1 kid in college so that is where a lot of her money goes.
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dav1965
    Yea my wife works and she makes over 40,000. We also have 1 kid in college so that is where a lot of her money goes.


    That explains the denial. Every welfare program (that's not meant as a shot at you, it's just want income based assistance programs are called) I am aware of is based on household income, not the income of the individual who is applying. It's a protection for the taxpayers.....ironically, one of the few that seems to matter to the bean-counters.

    I'll also go ahead and tell you to save yourself the trouble of calling a scumbag lawyer or your local Congressman. You aren't being denied based on a decision open to interpretation (like if you actually need the meds) you are being denied because you don't meet the financial requirements to qualify.

    It's a crappy situation....sorry, man.
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Change your address....

    The welfare here maintain 2 different addresses, live together and collect double benefits.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Question did you fill the form out yourself. If so I would Suggest you go to your county service rep or the DAV. They know how to fill the forms out so you get what you need.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dav1965
    My medicine is $245 a month so i applied for the VA.


    How would you like it to be over $3,000 [?]
    Glad I have a medicare advantage plan, and my DR. got a co-pay place help for me [^]
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When i had cancer some pills i took were 1500 a piece. My insurance paid that.
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