[rollei_list] Re: OT: VA Medical Benefits
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:46:53 -0700
Marc,
The only way to qualify now is to live in poverty.
There are pdf charts on www.va.gov that spell out how much income a veteran
can have. The county I live in shows that a veteran with one dependant
can't have made over $35,200 in 2009.
The VA put income limits in place in January 2003:
* Enrollment Restriction:
In order to ensure the availability of quality and timely health care to
veterans with service connected conditions, special authority based on
military service, low income, and those with special health care needs, in
January 2003 VA made the difficult decision to stop enrolling new Priority
Group 8 (high income) veterans whose income exceeded VA Income Thresholds.
See this page:
http://www4.va.gov/healtheligibility/eligibility/DetermineEligibility.asp
The VA's definition of "high income" is beyond ridiculous.
I don't qualify for VA medical benefits because the VA considers my wife and
I "high income" because we made more than $35,200 in 2009.
Millions of vets are shut out of the system due to cost cutting like this
and is isn't right...but there it is.
Jeff Kelley
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> James Small
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> Subject: [rollei_list] OT: VA Medical Benefits
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> At 12:37 AM 3/22/2010, Jeff Kelley wrote:
>
> >I served a full 6 year enlistment in the United States Air
> Force beginning >in 1975 - four years active duty and two
> years reserve duty with an >honorable discharge.
> >
> >I qualify for ZERO medical benefits from the VA or any
> other government >agency I'm aware of. (and believe me,
> I've tried!) > >I'd be really pleased to find out how "any
> Usian can get decent health care >by serving two years in
> the military!"
>
> First, go to the VA Web Site <http://www.va.og> and check out
> eligibility. You qualify. Service of more than 181 days and
> an honorable discharge qualify you. (The period of service
> was extended to 24 months in 1981, after you left the
> service. You can even apply on-line.
>
> If they decline you, call your Congressman's office.
> Constituent relations are their bread and butter.
>
> I was not allowed to outprocess UNTIL I had met with a VA rep
> to enroll, and that was in the fall of 1978.
>
> Never heard of someone who served for four years with an
> honorable discharge and who did not qualify.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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