Synopsis "The Greatest Fleecing of America: Veterans Disability Compensation (in English)"
America's battle-injured veterans are truly deserving of all possible benefits and most Americans gladly pay a fair share to support them! However, the VA compensation program is being grossly abused by non-battle-injured veterans as they learn to "work the system" and it's all perpetuated by current regulations and VA policies! There are rumblings that the Trump administration will tackle "entitlement reform," but do they even know that the most abused entitlement program, the most fraudulent waste of taxpayer dollars, is VA disability compensation? Under this program alone, separate from VA medical care, pension, and multiple other VA benefits, thousands of veterans are being granted as much as 100% disability, with monthly payments of $3,000 or more for the rest of their lives when they have little or no evident physical, occupational, or social impairment. Other recipients do have real disabilities, but their conditions were rarely actually caused by military service. The compensation program payout to veterans, currently about $90 billion annually, will rise to over $100 billion in 2020, up from $37.7 billion in 2008, and the unfunded liabilities (deficit) for compensation payments alone is already $2.8 trillion and rising fast. This book explains how a well-intended benefit to take care of our injured war heroes has become an expected entitlement or military perk for all veterans, why claims and payments have snowballed in recent years due to automation, relaxing of standards, encouraging and rewarding of fraudulent claims. Full of real examples of claims and wrongful grants, the book also offers solutions for our federal policy-makers to put an end to this greatest fleecing of America.
