Showing posts with label VA Disability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VA Disability. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

More VA disability concerns not helping injured soldiers

It never ceases to amaze me how a comp system can be cold blooded and almost hostile to injured people. This goes beyond bureaucratic delays. When laws, rules and paperwork become so complicated that they can be used to place obstacles in the path of the disabled and instead of easing their pain they add to it then it is time for change. Here the story in the link concerns veterans disability claims and apparently trying to find ways to save money on benefits. I have no problem with efforts to save money and make any system more efficient but when they say don't help them obtain all they are entitled to that is inhuman. Beyond the paperwork there is a human being with a disability or injury. If any system makes it easy to delay, deny and discourage a claim then that system should be changed.
To read more on this story go here.

Also you can visit this article for another story!

Friday, November 16, 2007

VA Disability...another problem!

Here is a link to a story on disabled soldiers. What it brings home to me is that the issue of disability is one of injury that can be followed by disputes and denials of claims. Any sort of disability or injury denial or dispute is often a shock to the injured person. Most of us just want to be treated with fairness and when it does not happen are stressed by a system that can seem cold blooded. When systems for determining disability are too slow and filled with technicalities they do not provide that fairness we all expect. Publicity about this helps by showing how terrible it is and perhaps then change can come.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/15/wounded.marine/index.html