{"id":24443,"date":"2011-06-20T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24443"},"modified":"2011-06-20T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:42:46","slug":"one-veterans-battle-with-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24443","title":{"rendered":"One veteran’s battle with the VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> tells the story of a wounded veteran who lost his leg in an IED attack and now does his battle with the VA;<\/p>\n

Iraq War veteran Joel Klobnak is waiting. It\u2019s how he spends his time these days after the Department of Veterans Affairs slashed his disability pay two years ago, the Des Moines Register reports.<\/p>\n

Klobnak, 24, a former Marine who lost his leg in Iraq in 2006, says the cut in disability pay is a misunderstanding, but he still feels forgotten.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to support a family of four on $1,557 per month while he waits to hear whether the government will reinstate full disability pay for his injury and the mental anguish that accompanied it, according to the paper.<\/p>\n

His appeal is trapped in a paperwork backlog that is delaying payments to injured veterans across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story goes that he his payments were slashed when he missed an appointment with a VA doctor that he wasn’t aware of, then he got a hearing with an administrative law judge who told him she’d make a decision about his benefits in three months…more than a year ago.<\/p>\n

But we can all take comfort in the fact that people like Tammy Duckworth still get their checks and take time off from their duties at the VA to use their own VA benefits. Did Duckworth have anything to do with Klobnak’s claim…no, probably not, but she didn’t help either.<\/p>\n

Shinseki and his band of leftist nitwits went to head the VA because he is a disabled veteran and was supposed to bring personal perspective to the job…so why is the VA still on it’s bloated ass, doing nothing for veterans except kicking the can down the road while they’re tearing apart real lives and real veterans?<\/p>\n

And who are the first to pay for the national debt out of our COLA and medical benefits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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