Posted on Aug 1, 2017
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This is the kind of stuff that makes my blood boil.
Many veterans need support for their injuries incurred during their service. But situations like this show why it is that scrutiny must be paid to claims and the process for approving them.
I hope this guy rots in jail for a long, long time.
Many veterans need support for their injuries incurred during their service. But situations like this show why it is that scrutiny must be paid to claims and the process for approving them.
I hope this guy rots in jail for a long, long time.
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Posted from ksat.com
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Disability
Fraud
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I don't want to see the guy be hurt... he probably does have real issues after getting out as a Master Sergeant. Trouble is, liars that MSU to get more money then they should. It taints what they otherwise accomplished honorably.
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Fraud is despicable. I see the top 2 were both who faked wheelchairs. Such an obvious blatant bad move. Report stated, VA IG Opened, 111 Vet Fraud Cases open. Hundreds of thousands are placed each year as new claims, of benefit, not all are for injury. I wonder what the true percentage of false claims are processed compared valid claims? In an imperfect world some knuckle heads skeamers get away with these things. But, what burns me is valid claims with some much evidence built up over decades before the vet stumbled luckily into va disablity, unknowing it even existed in the first place then gets denied for multiple years as the injury becomes worse.
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I can't say how many or what percentage is false, but anecdotally from what I see, about 1 in 10 is obviously false on their face, maybe a third or so make claim that they were somewhere or did something that with development they either can't prove or gets disproved, and maybe another third or so are exaggerated - ask for the moon so you get a star or two.
Common practice is on an initial claim to state every malady they have, get the physical, then try to prove service-connectivity afterwards. This method takes forever... and is why so many cases get turned into appeals. What should happen is to work the SC piece first, and once you have that square then make your claim. It ends up better for both the claimant and the government. Once the SC is established, the rest is just a matter of diagnosis and severity of impairment.
In a perfect world, people would have copies of their service records and have it together for their claim, but that is rarely the case, especially when the claim is being made years or decades after their service.
Common practice is on an initial claim to state every malady they have, get the physical, then try to prove service-connectivity afterwards. This method takes forever... and is why so many cases get turned into appeals. What should happen is to work the SC piece first, and once you have that square then make your claim. It ends up better for both the claimant and the government. Once the SC is established, the rest is just a matter of diagnosis and severity of impairment.
In a perfect world, people would have copies of their service records and have it together for their claim, but that is rarely the case, especially when the claim is being made years or decades after their service.
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PO3 Aaron Hassay
1SG (Join to see) - My journey is to help out all veteran services to eliminate fraud, but indeed instantly help valid innocently injured service members.
Military Operationally is dangerous hazardous occupation that should have 100 percent benefit of the doubt, of substantiating diagnosed injury illness as service caused connected, in service members favor instantly.
Then if there is some doubt of obvious fakers who are in wheelchairs at comp and pen, but otherwise walking around normally mowing the grass, then ding them HARD!
But that is done after the fact of giving them benefit of the doubt.
Have a small regional task force who would look into fraud cases such as they are already doing, for obvious errors.
But, do not ding the service member, in the initial application denial phases.
The only way that Service Connection is not instantly awarded Benefit of Doubt in Favor of Service Member is if they did not make it past 180 days of Service discharged.
Military Operationally is dangerous hazardous occupation that should have 100 percent benefit of the doubt, of substantiating diagnosed injury illness as service caused connected, in service members favor instantly.
Then if there is some doubt of obvious fakers who are in wheelchairs at comp and pen, but otherwise walking around normally mowing the grass, then ding them HARD!
But that is done after the fact of giving them benefit of the doubt.
Have a small regional task force who would look into fraud cases such as they are already doing, for obvious errors.
But, do not ding the service member, in the initial application denial phases.
The only way that Service Connection is not instantly awarded Benefit of Doubt in Favor of Service Member is if they did not make it past 180 days of Service discharged.
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