Subject: RE: Your knowledge is needed
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:19:57 -0400
From: VSOBBran@vba.va.gov
To: jasonsos@digitex.net
Mr. Leigh:
Texas Veterans Commission is not privy to information as to how many
veterans' checks were suspended due to failure to return Eligibility
Verification Report (EVR). We have had a number of the cases referred to
our office. Every attempt is made to get VA to resume payment as soon as
possible. Generally, veterans who have no income or whose only income is
social security are not supposed to receive an EVR. It appears there could
be a glitch in the VA computer. We have brought it to their attention.
Jerry Goode
Regional Office Supervisor
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Leigh [mailto:jasonsos@digitex.net]
Sent: Wednesday,April 10,2002 1:44 PM
To: houston_tvc@vba.va.gov; waco_tvc@vba.va.gov
Subject: Your knowledge is needed
Greetings--and Thank you all for helping my fellow Veterans.
Can you please give me--even a 'ball park' estimate of how many Veterans
in your respective regions--lost their monthly benefits this March as a
result of not sending in the form 21-0516?
I write and publish a monthly newsletter of and for Veterans on all
issues great and small and I am presently investigating this above
issue, so your help in discovering the amount of Veterans effected would
be very helpful to ALL Veterans.
Our local VA Service office informed me yesterday that perhaps several
hundred Veterans were effected in our county of Johnson.
I am writing of this issue--as it has effected me--personally. To wit:
Recently, my monthly benefits were 'terminated,' due to Form 21-0516 not
being submitted timely by March 1, 2002.
It should be noted that I was not advised of this until AFTER THE FACT:
I received the form on March 30, 2002--the day after Good Friday, but
the letter was post marked 'March 26, 2002,' out of Waco--the form was
already filled out by the VA with the basic info, minus my
signiture--and there was an 'inner office' rubber stamp (red ink) on the
backside of this form that was dated 'March 6, 2002.'
Please see: http://jasonleigh.org/vaform.htm for a scanned copy of this
form.
After calling the Waco office and informing them of this problem--as my
direly needed benefits check had not arrived by April 4th, 2002--I was
told to sign the form and send it in and perhaps 60 to 90 days would go
by until my benefits are 're-instated.'
Thanking you in advice of your efforts,
Sincerely,
Jason Leigh
(Honorably Discharged U.S. Navy Veteran)
(Jason
Leigh is an active member in good standing with The American Legion and his name
is inscribed on the Special Member Rolls of Honored Veterans).