The Oregonian newspaper is running a story on the difficulties that many veterans declared 100% disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have in obtaining Social Security disability benefits. Like many newspapers, the Oregonian is going multi-media in its online edition. You can see the video piece they prepared for this article.
2 comments:
"But Social Security told him he wasn’t disabled, no matter what the VA says — even though both agencies define disability in similar ways."
Similar is not exactly the same. Story doesn't say what the VA uses to determine a person totally disabled. So you can't compare apples and oranges.
My experience is that 99% of SSA denied 100% VA disability claims are drug and/or alcohol related. The VA made a public policy decision to be very liberal in adjudicating such claims- SSA has done just the opposite.
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