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The Obama Administration Is Deliberately Targeting Veterans
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The deliberate targeting of Veterans rights and benefits by the current administration must end. There is only one way to do so…DO NOT RE-ELECT these backstabbing, lying miscreants.
Step back for a moment…think about all the things that have been stripped off or reduced for Veterans under this President:
Post 9/11 GI Bill… (Very quietly)…break pay instituted. This “policy” did not grandfather anyone already enrolled in college and using the benefit. For 99% of the veterans using this benefit, this was their only source of income. They returned from war to a country whose economy had tanked. They were not eligible for unemployment. So they went to school, because they were promised a set dollar amount if they went full time. Then came along this policy change. Under it, when school is closed, the VA reduces the benefit by the number of days it’s closed. Over the winter, this can mean a Veteran loses up to 50% of the benefit. Finding a temporary, part-time job is nearly impossible. If they are supporting a family, this is devastating.
COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) – Each budget session, the very first discussion is on COLA increases. Whether or not to even grant them, and if so how little it will be. For four years, Active Duty and Veterans got NO COLA increase. This year, Congress finally granted one…1.5% – for a 100% disabled Veteran, which meant an increase of approximately $40 a month. But since Medicare also increased, the COLA increase ended up being about $18 a month. Cost of Living in the US went up 2.7% as 2014 opened.
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