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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 05:51 PM Nov 2018

'A train wreck': Veterans haven't receive GI Bill benefits for months

Shelley Roundtree departed the U.S. Army in 2013 after seeing friends and fellow soldiers die in combat during his tour in Afghanistan. He was committed to transitioning to civilian life, and one of his first steps was to enroll in college with tuition and housing benefits he'd earned under the GI Bill.

Roundtree, 29, began studying marketing at Berkeley College in Midtown Manhattan. He dreams of working in the fashion industry, and he's close to graduating — but now there's a serious obstacle.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is suffering from a series of information technology glitches that has caused GI Bill benefit payments covering education and housing to be delayed or — in the case of Roundtree — never be delivered.

"I'm about to lose everything that I own and become homeless," Roundtree said. "I don't want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven't received what I was promised."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-train-wreck-veterans-havent-receive-gi-bill-benefits-for-months/ar-BBPzXiD?li=BBnb7Kz

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'A train wreck': Veterans haven't receive GI Bill benefits for months (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 OP
Into whose pockets did the "glitches" disappear? vlyons Nov 2018 #1
very competent at destruction and grift Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #5
Probably helping to pay Trump's mounting NewJeffCT Nov 2018 #6
No excuses . . . Iliyah Nov 2018 #2
Trump cares about the Vets.......yeah right! ProudMNDemocrat Nov 2018 #3
I just read that ellie Nov 2018 #4
That is horrible bdamomma Nov 2018 #7
Where's the "media" on this?! Cha Nov 2018 #8
Elections have consequences. Drahthaardogs Nov 2018 #9

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,468 posts)
3. Trump cares about the Vets.......yeah right!
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 06:05 PM
Nov 2018

Who heads the VA? His Mar-a-Lago Golf buddies.

That is where the money is going if I am not mistaken.

ellie

(6,927 posts)
4. I just read that
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 06:07 PM
Nov 2018

the VA is going to start doing medical testing on dogs again. Why? Because they are monsters. These motherfuckers need to be removed from office.

bdamomma

(63,650 posts)
7. That is horrible
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 11:04 PM
Nov 2018

they want destroy everything humans, animals the environment. They need a heavy dose of KARMA or worse.

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