If Trump Is REALLY Interested In Combating Fraud, Then He Needs To Go After The Thousands Of Veterans Who Are Filing Fraudulent Claims With The VA

[citygator]

The pension I receive is nowhere near enough to live on. Not even close.

Officers receive a nice pension, but not us enlisted.

I do think lifetime healthcare at the VA for someone who only served four years is ridiculous.

My dad was a 30 year navy officer retired O5. I’d guess his pension plus social security is well over $100k per year plus free medical.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

How many people receive a retirement pension around the age of 40? Nobody.

You are being dishonest by saying that is not a generous pension.

I was a GYSGT when I retired and I got 50 percent of my base salary as retirement. Try living on a little over 1000 dollars a month with a wife and 2 kids.

 

[struth]

This is the REAL fraud that Trump needs to do something about.....not the nonsense that he and other Republicans have complained about with Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.,

Thousands of military veterans have been filing fraudulent VA claims for years.....and 99.99% of them get away with it. These veterans get away with it because The Department Of Veteran Affairs does not have enough investigators to combat this disability fraud.

In some cases, military veterans have gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars, some over $1 million dollars, in disability payments from the VA over several decades.

From the Washington Post. --

VA’s $193 billion disability program — one of the biggest line items in the federal budget — has become a rich target for fraudsters, according to a Washington Post investigation. Each year, the agency’s inspector general opens dozens of criminal cases into veterans like Kilpatrick who are suspected of faking injuries or illnesses for money.

But former officials said they suspect those cases represent only a fraction of the fraud that occurs. They said VA has failed to reckon with the full scope of disability fraud — as seen in videos The Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government — and allowed it to become entrenched and endemic at the expense of veterans with legitimate needs.

“The system is vulnerable to manipulation,” said Michael Missal, who served as VA’s inspector general for nearly nine years until January, when President Donald Trump fired him and 16 other independent federal watchdogs. “There’s a high risk that people can either lie about their condition or exaggerate their condition.”


Here is one of the worst cases of disability fraud that I read about. This guy claimed to be paralyzed, but he wasn't. He got away with it for 3 years. --

During visits to Atlanta VA Medical Center, the Iraq War veteran arrived in a wheelchair, claiming multiple sclerosis had paralyzed his arms and legs. By the time he turned 35, the onetime athlete said he could barely move from the neck down, leaving him dependent on others to eat, dress and bathe, according to court records.

Obligated to help a former soldier in need, the Department of Veterans Affairs began paying Kilpatrick $7,900 a month in tax-free disability benefits in 2015, the records show. The federal government also gave him $20,000 for a specially equipped Jeep Cherokee to make it easier for his wife to take him to medical appointments.

The hoax lasted for three years and might have continued indefinitely, if not for a whistleblower who sent VA proof that Kilpatrick was lying: videos of the Army veteran backflipping on a trampoline, prancing around a sports field like a ballerina and swan diving into a playground ball pit.


Here is another egregious case of disability fraud. This guy claimed to be blind, but he wasn't. He got away with it for years. --

VA raised Hoover’s disability rating to 100 percent and declared him permanently unable to work, which boosted his compensation to more than $3,800 a month. The government also enrolled him in blindness rehabilitation courses, training him how to navigate obstacles with a long white cane.

But Hoover had faster ways to get around. In January 2012 — the same month that VA classified him as completely disabled for blindness — he walked into the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to renew his driver’s license, records show.

He passed the eye test with 20/40 vision while wearing corrective lenses. Unaware that VA considered Hoover blind, the state of Florida gave him a new license plus perks in gratitude for his military service, including free disabled veteran plates for his vehicle.

From that point forward, according to the documents, Hoover claimed he was blind when he visited VA for medical appointments. Meanwhile, he cashed his disability checks and bought expensive toys, including an 11-foot boat, a three-wheeled motorcycle and a motorized canoe. Then he bragged on Facebook about how much fun he was having.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/veterans-affairs-fraud-fake-disability-cases/?itid=mr_manual_enhanced-template_1

Yes he does.

Another prime example of the failure of socializing healthcare

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

I was a GYSGT when I retired and I got 50 percent of my base salary as retirement. Try living on a little over 1000 dollars a month with a wife and 2 kids.

That makes no sense. Why were you getting only $1,000 per month?

When did you retire? 1970?

And it's not meant for you to live on....you're lucky you got any retirement pension at all at such a young age.

 

[g5000]

There is massive fraud just about everywhere but the left always ignore it.

Why do you toss out such lies so casually? Seriously.

There was a massive drop in the prosecution of white collar fraud under Trump 1.0 and it is even lower now.

Meanwhile, back in the Biden Justice Department:

False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $2.68 Billion in Fiscal Year 2023​

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Outgoing Biden Administration Announces $2.9 Billion in False Claims Act Recoveries for 2024​

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And, of course, there was a certain orange felon convicted of 34 counts of fraud.

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[RetiredGySgt]

That makes no sense. Why were you getting only $1,000 per month?

When did you retire? 1970?

1995 and my pay was just over 2200 a month now while active you have allowances that boost your pay but none of that counts for retired pay. And now adays retirees don't get 50 percent. they get less.

 

[Rambunctious]

No, I don't remember your bullshit MAGA lies, simp. Show your ******* work.

A lot of shit gets passed you tard....

 

[NotYankee]

If they want to "fight fraud", they should start with the rats in Congress and the super-rich who make tons of money off their legalized murder rackets.

 

[g5000]

I was a GYSGT when I retired and I got 50 percent of my base salary as retirement. Try living on a little over 1000 dollars a month with a wife and 2 kids.

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The retirement pay for a retired E-7 is higher than that, Gunny.

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[Independent thinker]

And you are ignoring even more massive fraud at the VA.

You are full of shit.


More MAGA butthurt dumb shit....

Maybe we can agree to get rid of ALL fraud. Right?

 

[g5000]

If Trump Is REALLY Interested In Combating Fraud​

Trump isn't the slightest interested in fighting fraud. Otherwise he would have to jail himself and his family.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

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The retirement pay for a retired E-7 is higher than that, Gunny.

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no it wasn't I only made like 2300 in base pay.

 

[Rambunctious]

I have a job, dipshit. A very well-paid one. My military experience put me in a position to earn bigly. That's the real benefit of serving for 20 years.

For a long time I felt like the world's biggest sucker for serving that long. If I had gotten out after my first enlistment, I would have earned a **** ton more money by now, and have a massive retirement fund.



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Then why are you whining?... you made your own choices...
My time in the Marines were some of the best times of my life... it prepared me for life and allowed me to put two kids through school purchase two homes and an apartment building... which I collect rent from every month...

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

A lot of shit gets passed you tard....

Lying MAGA. Your shit is so weak, simp.

 

[g5000]

no it wasn't I only made like 2300 in base pay.

I understand that, but COLA increases your retirement pay. It's over two grand a month for E-7s now.

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[RetiredGySgt]

I was medically retired at 15 years 6 months but had 6 months of active duty with the army so 16 years.

 

[struth]

War didn't cause this. --

About 556,000 veterans receive disability benefits for eczema, 332,000 for hemorrhoids, 110,000 for benign skin growths, 81,000 for acne and 74,000 for varicose veins, the most recently available figures from VA show. Individual payouts for such mundane conditions vary, but collectively they cost billions of dollars a year.

Families of socialized healthcare

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

1995 and my pay was just over 2200 a month now while active you have allowances that boost your pay but none of that counts for retired pay. And now adays retirees don't get 50 percent. they get less.

That doesn't sound right. And retirees do get 50 percent nowadays....more than that if they served over 20 years.

 

[g5000]

I was medically retired at 15 years 6 months but had 6 months of active duty with the army so 16 years.

Ah. That's a different ball game. You are receiving a VA pension then, yes?

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

I was medically retired at 15 years 6 months but had 6 months of active duty with the army so 16 years.

Well, that is why.