Posted on Jun 12, 2015
Would you let the VA go through your wallet?
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Through the program, the VA appoints and oversees fiduciaries to help veterans who are ill, injured or mentally incapacitated handle their benefits. A VA Inspector General report in 2010 found that fiduciaries had stolen nearly $15 million from veterans between 1998 and 2010, and a more recent review found persistent problems with the program and millions more stolen.
The review found that the Veterans Benefits Administration failed to meet its own deadlines to conduct field examinations of fiduciaries in 42 percent of cases, putting more than $800 million in benefits and estate values at risk.
Testimony from the VA Inspector General’s office also highlighted egregious examples of fraud. In one case, a Houston attorney who served as a guardian for 54 veterans conspired with his wife to steal more than $2 million from veterans’ bank accounts. Some of the cases detailed in written testimony from the VA Inspector General describe fiduciaries stealing from incapacitated relatives, including a New Hampshire woman who was incarcerated for a year after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her father.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/ailing-veterans-still-at-risk-of-theft-from-those-appointed-by-va-1.351839
The review found that the Veterans Benefits Administration failed to meet its own deadlines to conduct field examinations of fiduciaries in 42 percent of cases, putting more than $800 million in benefits and estate values at risk.
Testimony from the VA Inspector General’s office also highlighted egregious examples of fraud. In one case, a Houston attorney who served as a guardian for 54 veterans conspired with his wife to steal more than $2 million from veterans’ bank accounts. Some of the cases detailed in written testimony from the VA Inspector General describe fiduciaries stealing from incapacitated relatives, including a New Hampshire woman who was incarcerated for a year after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her father.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/ailing-veterans-still-at-risk-of-theft-from-those-appointed-by-va-1.351839
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Finance
Disability
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One of the results of a patient indicating to their VA providers, that they are having trouble remembering or that their spouse handles all the business matters and low and behold a fiduciary is assigned.
In reality many patients are very competent in handling their business matters, it's just a compromised within families one does these chores, the other one does those chores. It's not like either of them couldn't keep up with their checkbook.
In reality many patients are very competent in handling their business matters, it's just a compromised within families one does these chores, the other one does those chores. It's not like either of them couldn't keep up with their checkbook.
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
Thank you Sgt Spencer Sikder. Having trouble remembering and having your spouse handle your checkbook it a world apart IMHO. If I had to answer the "checkbook" question I think I would be in trouble!
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I hate to say it, but it is time to turn CID and the FBI loose on the VA. I want to see people do the shuffle of shame in front of cameras in hand cuffs and leg irons. This organization is despicable from the top down.
VA Secretary makes false Stolen Valor claims
The director in Phoenix, as well as minions in her evil clan, skate on red taping veterans into waiting until they die, only to be sacked for ethics in other areas.
VA employees making fun of the suicide rate.
A climate of claims processing designed to add extra layers in appeals instead of doing it right the first go around in some attempt to either commit fraud against Veterans, or to justify another layer of bureaucratic employees.
Now straight theft.
It's time for a big change, and part of that change deserves some gated community time IMO.
VA Secretary makes false Stolen Valor claims
The director in Phoenix, as well as minions in her evil clan, skate on red taping veterans into waiting until they die, only to be sacked for ethics in other areas.
VA employees making fun of the suicide rate.
A climate of claims processing designed to add extra layers in appeals instead of doing it right the first go around in some attempt to either commit fraud against Veterans, or to justify another layer of bureaucratic employees.
Now straight theft.
It's time for a big change, and part of that change deserves some gated community time IMO.
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