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

[RetiredGySgt]

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

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haven't received retired pay since 1999 I get paid by the VA, not being a combat vet I can't collect retired pay if the VA pays more.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

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

didn't get Va until rated at 70 percent by VA start of 2000. They ruled I was unemployable so paid at the 100 percent rate.

 

[g5000]

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

No, retirees do not get 50 percent nowadays. That is false.

The amount has been steadily dropping for decades.

Since 2018, the pension is a blend of a 401k-style plan and a smaller percentage of your base pay. So you are basically funding a significant part of your own retirement.

 

[g5000]

didn't get Va until rated at 70 percent by VA start of 2000. They ruled I was unemployable so paid at the 100 percent rate.

So you are receiving disability. That is different than retirement pay.

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[RetiredGySgt]

So you are receiving disability. That is different than retirement pay.

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if I were a combat vet I would also get retired paid that changed sometime in the 2000's

 

[Seymour Flops]

Wrong again, simp. Trump is just randomly cutting thousands of jobs at the VA....he is not addressing this problem.



If Trump was truly interested in reducing fraud, then he would increase the number of VA investigators so that more of this fraud can be uncovered. That would actually save mo



Maybe even you are smart enough to understand that....but probably

Dude.

Trump has been president for less than ten months.

The autopen administration left him a huge mess to clean up with those millions of illegals.They granted "legal status" two millions of illegal border crossers, and then allowed them pull access to the healthcare benefits paid for by american citizens.

Trump was busy making sure the one big, beautiful bill got passed to end that legalized fraud once and for all.

Now the cry baby democrats are throwing a tantrum, which can only distract trump. further. Once he decides, that he has met his own priorities, and those of his voters, he can take a look at yours.

As we should constantly say to those wanting to immigrate: wait your f****** turn!

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

No, retirees do not get 50 percent nowadays. That is false.

The amount has been steadily dropping for decades.

Since 2018, the pension is a blend of a 401k-style plan and a smaller percentage of your base pay. So you are basically funding a significant part of your own retirement.

If you entered the military before a certain year, you get to choose which retirement option. I entered the military in 2000 and I retired using the old system, without the 401K-style blended retirement option.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Dude.

Trump has been president for less than ten months.

He is not going to do anything about it and we both know it. Trump honestly doesn't give a flying **** about corruption because he is corrupt.

Stop pretending.

 

[debbiedowner]

Hussein Obama decreed that a Military Veteran could file for disability for PTSD without ever having been in combat.

Although I do know that happens please pick out from this document that anyone without serving in combat can file for disability for PTSD. I don't see it but could have missed it.

There is a paragraph in this document that seems to be a lie and that is Veterans and their families can have ACA. Well, if a vet is signed up for VA health care they cannot get a plan with a subsidy and would have to pay full price. Now, their spouse can.

Fact Sheet: The Obama Administration’s Work to Honor Our Military Families and Veterans

On Saturday, August 10, President Obama addressed the Disabled American Veterans and discussed his Administration’s work to secure our nation, wind down the war in Afghanistan, better serve o

obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

 

[MarathonMike]

LMAO Dems have finally come up with a winning strategy, attack veterans and wounded warriors. Let us know how that works out Dems.

Wow, just when you think Democrats haven't dug their hole deep enough, they go get an excavator.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Wow, just when you think Democrats haven't dug their hole deep enough, they go get an excavator.

You need to sit this one out, MAGA simp. You simply ain't smart enough to have a real discussion about government corruption.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

He deserves his disability payments. The simple fact is that thousands of veterans are filing false claims and stealing from the system.

It is not fair to the veterans who truly deserve it.

Are you a veteran?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Are you a veteran?

I am and disabled

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I am and disabled

No shit, don't think I asked you or are you Captain Creep as well.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

No shit, don't think I asked you or are you Captain Creep as well.

what does he have to be military to have an opinion?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

what does he have to be military to have an opinion?

Why do you feel the need to speak for him?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

what does it matter if he was military?

 

[JusticeHammer]

Why do you feel the need to speak for him?

Why are you stupid?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Why are you stupid?

Why are you such a racist b!+ch.

 

[Hafar1014]

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

The millions who are stealing tax money supported by democrats are more inportant