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Soulex posted:Did you turn that letter of eligibility into the school? Everything has been sent. Apparently they can't even give me a time frame  I really need to get that stipend  I remember this happening back in 2012 and it seriously hurt my grades. I thought 4 years would be enough to fix some of the problems the VA had :/ Any veteran orgs out there that can help you buy books and a computer when the VA doesn't come through?
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Everything has been sent. Apparently they can't even give me a time frame #1 check your Veterans Office at school. Apparently they have a library of books from classes that vets don't need anymore that we leave for each other since (some of us) we get free books. #2 if they don't have your book AND you can find it online, buy it, and do the DRM removal, then charge back. I mean you actually have to return it and if this is too  I'll remove this. #3 sign your class IX authorization or whatever it's loving called. This is assuming you did number 4. #4 have you done FAFSA? No? Why not. You can't get money from #3 if the school does not have money to give you. All that chapter bullshit authorization is doing is letting the school use the funds you got through grants for other things. If it isn't, then it is refunded to you. #5 buy a computer on credit or something. There is a tax break for people who are going to school, and can prove they need it for school (I have never had to prove but FYI) and you get something like 35% back or possibly more. It's probably more because I think I paid a total of 400 for my big rear end iMac. #6 work study
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Nov 17, 2016 19:15
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:I really need to get that stipend Most college book stores are fine with returns before the classes start; they fully expect a good amount of books to be returned because people change classes. Get the books you need there or from a library, and spend 15 minutes per book photographing them with your phone. Bring your laptop to class so you can read along with everyone and tell them it's the e-book version. Don't feel bad about it either, it's a loving racket where publishers just move chapters around to make old editions impossible to use so they can keep raking in $200 a pop for their poo poo.
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Nov 17, 2016 19:23
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My school gives you about a week after the semester starts to return books.
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Nov 17, 2016 19:47
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Not to mention sometimes professors have a direct hand in the book and it naturally creates an issue. Also best case scenario is to ask your professors how much of the syllabus is book heavy. They might suggest not even buying the book like some of mine have done.
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Nov 17, 2016 19:56
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Professors who peddle their own book bug me. My public speaking professor back in Florida did that and we never even used the loving thing.
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Nov 17, 2016 20:27
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man now that I'm looking I don't think I ever got my book stipend i'm looking through my bank and I don't think I got it. Is there another way online to check the status of it or do I need to go to the school and talk to them? edit: and of course they're out of the office this week CHICKEN SHOES fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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Nov 17, 2016 21:14
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Soulex posted:#1 check your Veterans Office at school. Apparently they have a library of books from classes that vets don't need anymore that we leave for each other since (some of us) we get free books. Thank you for your great advice. I didn't do FAFSA this semester. I honestly have no clue if I even qualify. I'm doing distance courses so I can't go to the campus and get books, I have to get them somehow though. I've been using a really lovely laptop but this thing is on its last legs. Also, I'm unemployed until May at least so I don't have much credit. Classes have been going on for two weeks and some of my professors are starting to email me asking about turning in my assignments and I'm honestly embarrassed to tell them I'm too poor to buy books and supplies.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Thank you for your great advice. I didn't do FAFSA this semester. I honestly have no clue if I even qualify. I'm doing distance courses so I can't go to the campus and get books, I have to get them somehow though. even if you dont think you will qualify, fill out fafsa. seriously, do it right now if you can. go back in time and do it yesterday if you have a time machine. fill out fafsa every single year E: I filled out fafsa late one year. Grant money was $5775 that year. I filled it out in like November, and when spring rolled around I got $5775 deposited into my student account. Usually they split it into two and you get half in the fall and half in spring. Point being: even if you are late getting to it, fill our fafsa asap boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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Nov 18, 2016 01:01
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Even if you are rich as gently caress, you qualify for FAFSA. Seriously.
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Nov 18, 2016 09:41
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Ol, so I have my medical records and I know when I go to the VA to register I never get those records back. Should I just suck it up and personally copy my records or are the CDs they gave me as part of outprocessing my compete medical/dental record. If they are that saves me a fuckton of time, if not I want to know if it's my personal project to copy all of these records before going to the VA
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The stuff on the CD is not the same as the hard copy records they gave you! Make a copy of all that stuff and print out whatever's on the CD, then give those copies to the VA. Yeah, I know it's a lot, but it's not too bad to copy all of it if you have access to a decent copier at your office or school.
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Naked Bear posted:The stuff on the CD is not the same as the hard copy records they gave you! Make a copy of all that stuff and print out whatever's on the CD, then give those copies to the VA. Thank you! I don't have an office (I work in field service so it's the best of all worlds except having my "corporate hq" be in the middle of nowhere) so I will cry and spent the 49 bucks on a new laser printer ink ream. Again, thanks, NJ VA has been helpful but this was the one thing I was confused about.
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What is the current status on help from the US Gvt/VA regarding burn pit exposure? (Beyond registering @ https://veteran.mobilehealth.va.gov/AHBurnPitRegistry/#page/home) I have a friend who developed cancer and was told that there later could emerge different types of cancer as a result of the exposure, and I want to help make sure he has access to all the information he needs and hopefully inside tips too.
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Stellar Curiosity posted:What is the current status on help from the US Gvt/VA regarding burn pit exposure? (Beyond registering @ https://veteran.mobilehealth.va.gov/AHBurnPitRegistry/#page/home) No one cares about your friend and if he's lucky after he dies his grandkids will get a fancy certificate saying sorry. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I was looking through the VA eligibility stuff and something caught my eyeVA Enhanced Eligibility posted:Are a Former Prisoner of War (POW) What's up with Lejeune?
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Nov 27, 2016 08:06
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Ron Jeremy posted:I was looking through the VA eligibility stuff and something caught my eye Cancer from water supply,
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Nov 27, 2016 08:26
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Ron Jeremy posted:I was looking through the VA eligibility stuff and something caught my eye They were giving their marines water that was deadly. Oh well lol
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Soulex posted:#1 check your Veterans Office at school. Apparently they have a library of books from classes that vets don't need anymore that we leave for each other since (some of us) we get free books. Got my FAFSA done and got my book stipend last week. Thanks for your help man.
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Nov 27, 2016 13:45
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Ron Jeremy posted:I was looking through the VA eligibility stuff and something caught my eye Basically the dry cleaner wasn't properly disposing of chemicals and it got in the water supply. So if you've got specific types of cancer, you can get compensation.
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Godholio posted:I can't help on figuring out what transfers, there's a good chance the answer is "nothing" or really close to it...but if you're looking at a BS/BA there's no chance in hell you're going to squeeze ~40 credits out of military training to bump you up to sophomore status. i got 36 for medic school and basic got me out of all the required health/phys ed credits too i think the program was called AARTS to get a transcript sent to whatever school you apply to, but it might've changed
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Who would I talk to about not being paid correctly via VA? So, unless my math is wrong... 50% + 44% (20+20+10%) = 72 72% + 10% = 75%. So I should technically be rated 80% correct?
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Dec 23, 2016 10:47
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Soulex posted:Who would I talk to about not being paid correctly via VA? So, unless my math is wrong... 50, 20, 20, 10, 10 should be 80%. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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Unless something changed and I didn't hear about it.. It's not a straight addition. They start with the single highest percent, 50, then each rating is taken from the remaining percent. So it's 20% of 50, and then 20% of 30, ect... Once you get that number it's rounded to the nearest 10.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Unless something changed and I didn't hear about it.. Just want to let you know that 20% of 50 is 10, so it should be 50% leftover, then 40%, 32%, ~29%, then ~26% leftover at the end. Should be getting ~74% disability. Using the table at http://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/rates-index.asp#combined I went to the intersection of 71 and 10 to get a rating of 74, which will round to 70%
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Pesticide20 posted:Just want to let you know that 20% of 50 is 10, so it should be 50% leftover, then 40%, 32%, ~29%, then ~26% leftover at the end. Should be getting ~74% disability. Using the table at Ahaha...gently caress!
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"#5 buy a computer on credit or something. There is a tax break for people who are going to school, and can prove they need it for school (I have never had to prove but FYI) and you get something like 35% back or possibly more. It's probably more because I think I paid a total of 400 for my big rear end iMac. " Whoa, what? I just bought a new MacBook Pro and this would be fantastic.
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DoktorLoken posted:"#5 buy a computer on credit or something. There is a tax break for people who are going to school, and can prove they need it for school (I have never had to prove but FYI) and you get something like 35% back or possibly more. It's probably more because I think I paid a total of 400 for my big rear end iMac. " Yeah. Keep your receipt. Bring it up to your tax person.
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So I have a hosed up left shoulder that, so far as I know, I screwed up on a week long mission where at one point I propped my elbow up on the turret shield for eight hours for comfort and the next day it was stiff. It got progressively worse to the point where I can't lift my arm above my head anymore. According to a VA doctor in Memphis, my shoulder actually has nothing wrong with it because he couldn't see "any evidence of soft tissue damage in the x-ray." (lolwhat) I filed a claim on it that was denied because the VA says that there's no evidence that my injury is connected to my service in Iraq, a determination they made after looking at my claim where I said I hurt my shoulder in Iraq. So now I'm in appeals hell. I started working with a VFW rep when my claim was over 300 days old. He had pretty amazing tendency to not answer emails and phone calls for months at a time, so I ended up contacting VFW's national headquarters and got put in contact with a guy who basically told me that everything this rep told me to do was the wrong thing to do. He told me what I needed to do (see a real doctor for a diagnosis, get buddies to write statements saying they remember me bitching about my shoulder, etc.), and I started on the process. Then my wife died. And then I went through VA purgatory waiting for them to approve some survivor's benefits. I asked my VFW rep to help, but never heard back from him. I'd last heard from him in May of 2015. I sent him a follow-up in August 2015 that he never replied to, then asked him for help with my survivor benefits application in May 2016. When I didn't hear back from him by July, I looked up the contact where he was working and, lo and behold, his name wasn't listed anymore. So I contacted this new person, included the entire email chain, and asked her for help. I got a reply about a week later. quote:Good Evening Mr. McNally. Wow, sounds like she's already made up her mind here. So I wrote back: quote:I'm really not sure how you can claim that I said the issue started "so long after" I was in Iraq, when I clearly stated that it started as stiffness during that specific mission in Iraq, never went away, and progressively became worse. Moreover, your comments about how you're not sure how my actions would result in my condition, coupled with the claim I mentioned, make it sound like your mind is already made up on this matter. Yeah, okay, I lost my cool and could have handled it better. I admit it. I got this reply two days later: quote:Okay, Mr. McNally, Okay, wow. I'm sorry this person lost their spouse, but seriously? Anyway, I think I need to rescind the VFW's authority in my appeal and find a new VSO.
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Every time you post something about how you're getting hosed again by the loving lovely rear end Army and VA my loving blood boils. It's not good for me because I've got bad loving rage issues. I am so, so sorry that all this poo poo keeps happening to you dude. I can sympathize so much, but I've never had to deal with that level of ineptitude and idiocy. Sorry dude 
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Mike-o posted:Every time you post something about how you're getting hosed again by the loving lovely rear end Army and VA my loving blood boils. It's not good for me because I've got bad loving rage issues. I am so, so sorry that all this poo poo keeps happening to you dude. I can sympathize so much, but I've never had to deal with that level of ineptitude and idiocy. Sorry dude Every time I see this stuff I feel like a shitbag just because my claims went through quickly and easily when they actually kind of had no right to go so smoothly. It seems like blind luck how well claims go.
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McNally posted:
2 things. When you switch you VSO to the DAV, make sure that you tell as many and as high level people in the VFW why they are loving bad at their job, examples to pile on. Second, I will personally testify on your behalf at your trial when you snap.
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McNally posted:So I have a hosed up left shoulder that, so far as I know, I screwed up on a week long mission where at one point I propped my elbow up on the turret shield for eight hours for comfort and the next day it was stiff. It got progressively worse to the point where I can't lift my arm above my head anymore. DAV is good for me so far. Also hey, at least you got some emotion. Truth be told, might help to play nice as similar circumstances seat unlikely partnerships. Also gently caress them.
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My Dad's friend is telling us how he's been trying to get disability for 50ish years, apparently when he was in the Army he was locked in a small room in Bethesda with some other soldiers as they did sleep experiments, he developed sarcoma from the bad water supply there, and he wasn't allowed to talk about it but it was recently declassified. I'm curious how based in reality this all is, as his recollections are rather vivid.
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I have a very specific question: I used ch 33 for most of school, and switched over to ch 31 in the last year. Great, right? Well, I'm only 4 credits away from graduating due to some funkery from last semester, and as you know ch 31 won't pay for anything under 6 credits. Additionally, ch 31 will ONLY pay for the credits that I absolutely need and nothing more. That means that I'm on the hook for the tuition cost as well as housing. My VA rep said that I should switch back to ch 33 in order to register for full time and get BAH and all that. My question is that if I switch back to ch 33 can I then switch back to ch 31 if I want to do grad school or some other type of training? Or is it lost forever? Thanks bros.
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Deathy McDeath posted:I have a very specific question: I'd talk to your school's certifying official about some stuff. I imagine that you have two requirements, total hours and hours in a specific course, and depending on their flexibility you might be able to pick up one course to satisfy one requirement, and another to satisfy the other, and climb your way out of your hour deficit. I had something similar happen to me in my last semester, though it was separated by summer sub-semesters. I know nothing about switching between benefit types.
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Yeah I'm finished will all major and core requirements, those 4 credits are just raw credit reqs for the degree. I can take anything.
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So I EAS'd out of the Marines back in 2010, and filed a VA claim for asymmetrical lymphedema in one of my feet. I wasn't medboarded due to a whole host of poo poo involve my lovely loving command and an absolute shitbird for a MSgt so I even though this poo poo happened while on active duty I was long since out when I finally got my claim in 2012. I was initially rated at 20% and this foot poo poo is getting progressively worse, to the point I can't even remain on my feet for extended periods of time, and it's beginning to spread up my leg. Apparently I only had 60 days to file an appeal after getting the initial determination? Do I have any options to exercise or am I just completely boned?
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Deathy McDeath posted:Yeah I'm finished will all major and core requirements, those 4 credits are just raw credit reqs for the degree. I can take anything. find two 3 credit courses?
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Kawasaki Nun posted:find two 3 credit courses? The problem is not taking the courses. It's paying for them AND affording rent. 4 credits is $6,500.
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