{"id":30420,"date":"2012-06-18T07:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30420"},"modified":"2012-06-18T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:22:59","slug":"yet-another-thing-you-cant-trust-the-va-to-help-you-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30420","title":{"rendered":"Yet another thing you can&#8217;t trust the VA to help you with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know it&#8217;s a shocker, but it seems that fiduciaries that the VA recommends to help veterans who aren&#8217;t competent enough to manage their own funds have been ripping off those veterans they&#8217;re supposed to help, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/military\/article\/Thieves-swindle-disabled-veterans-program-3639830.php#photo-3076248\">My San Antonio<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gambling addicts, psychiatric cases and convicted criminals are among the thieves who have been handed control of disabled veterans&#8217; finances by the Veterans Affairs Department, a Hearst Newspapers investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, theft and fraud have plagued the fiduciary program, in which the VA appoints a family member or a stranger to manage money for veterans whom the government considers incapacitated. The magnitude and pace of those thefts have increased, despite VA promises of reform. Three of the largest scams \u2014 ranging from about $900,000 to $2 million \u2014 each persisted for 10 years or more before being discovered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that asking the DVA to recognize and filter out thieves is too much. After all, a fish doesn&#8217;t know it&#8217;s wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know it&#8217;s a shocker, but it seems that fiduciaries that the VA recommends to &hellip; <a title=\"Yet another thing you can&#8217;t trust the VA to help you with\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30420\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet another thing you can&#8217;t trust the VA to help you with<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}