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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
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Another Trump admin incompetence
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)legal bills.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,468 posts)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)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)they want destroy everything humans, animals the environment. They need a heavy dose of KARMA or worse.
Cha
(295,899 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Why did you and your colleagues think a New York billionaire gave a fuck about you?