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Originally Posted by epchick
Now he's suffering complications from those surgeries, but everytime he gets an appointment at VA, it either gets cancelled or postponed (and it's always scheduled 6 months or longer away).
IDK if this is VA or just veteran's benefits in general, but anyone who has family that are recently retired (or about to be retired) need to make sure that the gov't/VA (i'll have to ask my dad which one it is) acknowledges your marriage, and acknowledges your children (and whether or not they are in college).
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The cancellations/postponements are a serious problem, and are based more on facilities, but it's a widespread issue. Like I said, I can't imagine how annoying it would be if that was your only source of healthcare.
As far as the marriage/children thing, that is a VA-specific problem, since the DOD keeps pretty good records of marriage and children stuff--they have to for a lot of reasons. I don't think the VA knows or cares about my existence; my father isn't in that bad a condition where they could have gotten financial assistance with college.
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