VA Connects Disabled With State Benefits (why do I think this is about States paying for VA costs

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Veterans-State-Benefits.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

February 12, 2007
VA Connects Disabled With State Benefits
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:03 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson unveiled a plan Monday aimed at ensuring that disabled veterans, such as those severely injured in Iraq or Afghanistan, receive state benefits they might not know about because of a federal privacy law.

VA officials will ask severely disabled war veterans whether they want to be contacted by their states' veterans offices about state-offered benefits. If the answer is yes, the VA will share the information with a state office that will, in turn, contact the veteran

..more at link...

While it SOUNDS like they are trying to help the Vets... IMHO this is the beginning of a backdoor States pay... :grr:

[pwb]

1. Nicholson is fucking up a lot lately

bushy is gutting every agency of our government and filling them with high cost contractors. our army is no longer self sufficient under the republicans.

[Monkeyman]

2. Look at IL they came up with a way that low income vets can pay

[Megahurtz]

3. Pushing the Fed Responsibility

off onto the States. Just like everything.

Cheap Bastards!:grr: This can't be good.