Bear Handlon (Former Navy SEAL): The $2.5M Gift to Veterans I Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

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Major Richard Star Act

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Can you please explain how a veteran should get this help?

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Yea it’s called google it

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The VA has some major issues no doubt but the employees believe it or not don't come close to being the top. An employee has to be past their 1-2 year probationary period and also be vested which takes 3 years to cover all their bases. As a matter of fact there is a huge Veteran employee population inside the VA system. The major problem is the sheer amount of tax payer money that has been increased to handle the VA budget which primarily struggles to manage the covering of claims on the VBA side of the house, leaving the medical VHA and Cemetery sides to get limited funds from the allocated congressional budget. The VA budget has gone from 90 Billion in 2009 to now over 400 Billion in 2024 and where does that go... primarily covering disability / compensation (this means hiring quality employees, purchasing new equipment, updating infrastructure all gets put on the side). Veterans must be willing to have an honest and transparent discussion around this topic. You have Veterans that all want a piece of the pie with that money pot to assist their quality of life... however most are not even disabled or low functioning. This has led to Veterans who are getting 80%-100% service connection for things such as sleep apnea and personality disorders... the number of Vets that believe in the idea of file a claim again and file again and file again is a real issue. The socialist medical VA system could care for all Veterans if it we just made it about actual care... there is plenty of money but so much of those funds are getting filtered to non combat non physically injured Vets that are taking away from their fellow Veterans whom should be getting more. You have internet sites, blogs, KZbin channels, etc. that all encourage across the board that all Vets should go file for compensation benefits and get a piece of the pie type mentality. So until we are able to come to an understanding that money for compensation eats away from medical care we will be stuck with the ongoing problems. Remember no service member signed a contract with the VA they signed a contract with the DOD... the VA was created to care for war Veterans and the political nature of buying Veteran constituents has been the plague that grew the VA to this idea of serving everybody for everything. No one wants to be honest and compartmentalize Veterans into categories whereby most seemingly should be just getting medical care but not compensation. Combat related injuries, direct service harm (burn pits, water hazards, accidents, etc). Far too many Veterans are living off the system when they are fully capable of being independent and managing their own ability for financial income. You have things such as non service connected pensions, caregiver support, dependent education stipends, and survivor benefits that all have to be accounted for as well. No NGO could manage it unless they factored in how to minimize and reduce all the outgoing billions in disability compensation and benefits... it's not profitable.