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I know there's a few of you on this forum. This post (and subsequent additions from me) are addressed to them, not all the liberals (you don't put up with this shit, so I'm not asking you).
'A train wreck': Veterans haven't receive GI Bill benefits for months
"I'm about to lose everything that I own and become homeless," Roundtree said. "I don't want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven't received what I was promised."
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 classes or buying food — not both. At the end of the day, the veteran said he often makes himself to go to sleep hungry.
"It's just confusing," said Roundtree. "Who is there for us? Who is representing us? Who is helping us? Who is doing what they need to do to better the situation for veterans?"
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There are many veterans, like Roundtree, across the country who are still waiting for VA to catch up with a backlog created after President Trump signed the Forever GI Bill in 2017. The landmark piece of legislation greatly expanded benefits for veterans and survivors' 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 VA. Hundreds of thousands are believed to have been affected.
Your party is doing this. The representatives you elected are responsible. Here in TX, Beto O'Rourke has been working to support veterans for a long time, but GOP voters want Ted Cruz.
So... if you vote Republican, why do you put up with this shit? Why are the news outlets that focus on your point of view focused on a caravan of immigrants 1000 miles away rather than veterans on US soil who are not receiving benefits promised to them?
'A train wreck': Veterans haven't receive GI Bill benefits for months
"I'm about to lose everything that I own and become homeless," Roundtree said. "I don't want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven't received what I was promised."
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 classes or buying food — not both. At the end of the day, the veteran said he often makes himself to go to sleep hungry.
"It's just confusing," said Roundtree. "Who is there for us? Who is representing 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 Trump signed the Forever GI Bill in 2017. The landmark piece of legislation greatly expanded benefits for veterans and survivors' 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 VA. Hundreds of thousands are believed to have been affected.
Your party is doing this. The representatives you elected are responsible. Here in TX, Beto O'Rourke has been working to support veterans for a long time, but GOP voters want Ted Cruz.
So... if you vote Republican, why do you put up with this shit? Why are the news outlets that focus on your point of view focused on a caravan of immigrants 1000 miles away rather than veterans on US soil who are not receiving benefits promised to them?