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In article <npdhudtpjjco18o4b05c79rt9moqkbro6l@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>From Stars & Stripes
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>VA secretary has begun planning budget cuts requested by Trump
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>http://bit.ly/2JTpsUm
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>said Friday that he has begun forming a plan to cut the agency's
>budget as President Donald Trump requested during a Cabinet meeting
>last month.
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Before they can cut the budget, they first have to get their computers
running...
Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to ongoing IT issues
at VA
more at
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/veterans-haven-t-receive-gi-bill-benefits-months-due-ongoing-n934696
By Phil McCausland
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
The Department of Veterans Affairs is suffering from a series of information
technology glitches that has caused GI Bill benefit payments covering education
Without the GI Bill's housing stipend, Roundtree was kicked out of his apartment
and is now living on his sister's couch, miles from school, where he feels like
a burden on his family. The new living situation required him to move all his
belongings into a storage container, which he can no longer afford. Now all of
his possessions are in danger of being auctioned off by the storage facility.
Roundtree said that because of his extremely strained finances, he is forced to
choose between spending money on public transportation to get to his marketing
often makes himself go to sleep hungry.
us? Who is helping us? Who is doing what they need to do to better the situation
for veterans?"
There are many veterans, like Roundtree, across the country who are still
waiting for VA to catch up with a backlog created after President Donald Trump
signed the Forever GI Bill in 2017. The landmark piece of legislation greatly
expanded benefits for veterans and their families, but it did not upgrade the
VA's technical capabilities to account for those changes.
While it is unclear how many GI Bill recipients were impacted by the delays, as
of Nov. 8, more than 82,000 are still waiting for their housing payments with
only weeks remaining in the school semester, according to the VA. Hundreds of
thousands are believed to have been affected.
Technology, which was tasked with implementing a change to how the housing
allowance was calculated, the agency said. The Forever GI Bill required that
housing would be based on the ZIP code of where a veteran went to school, not
where he or she lived.
Issues that arose when VA attempted to stress-test their antiquated system, and
a contract dispute over the new changes, meant VA waited until July 16 to tell
schools to begin enrolling students, according to multiple veteran advocacy
groups. Many colleges and universities waited, however, because VA told them
that they would need to reenter their student veterans' certifying information
either way.
the ZIP code processing, they suddenly got all their enrollments, which usually
come during the spring across the summer. Instead they all came a few weeks
more at
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/veterans-haven-t-receive-gi-bill-benefits-months-due-ongoing-n934696
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