{"id":32224,"date":"2012-10-03T06:48:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32224"},"modified":"2012-10-03T06:48:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:48:31","slug":"va-is-slow-paying-workstudy-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32224","title":{"rendered":"VA is slow paying work\/study students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the NBC News<\/a> article that reports that Department of Veterans’ Affairs not only can’t pay benefits to veteran\/students in college, they can’t pay their work\/study help in a timely manner;<\/p>\n

Ashley Metcalf, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2014 and the student veteran who organized the survey of other VA “work-study” employees at 18 campuses \u2014 said he\u2019s been living on credit cards since June and was forced to obtain an emergency loan because the VA has failed to compensate him for about 100 hours he’s logged in the VA program. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow can this happen? If I was working for McDonald\u2019s and they said they\u2019re not going to pay me for 10 weeks, I\u2019d have a lawsuit,\u201d said Metcalf, an Air Force veteran now enrolled at t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I worked in the campus VA office at Oswego while I was in college and the work we did there was absolutely essential to the operations there. It wasn’t a Jobs Corps program where we showed up for a few minutes each day and sat around drinking coffee. We did the drudgery of the volumes of paperwork and recordkeeping for veterans enrolled in the school. And we got paid minimum wage. <\/p>\n

The program was a great help to veterans who were at the school, but jeebus, they need to be paid for their work, Eric. I’ll bet when they need money for another training conference, they’ll find it in a timely manner. They should be paying their part time employees in the same manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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