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Veteran's Affairs Is There To Help People. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

As most of you know, due to unfortunate circumstances, both my husband and I are unemployed (I MAY have work though, more on that later). Today, because his disability is up to 40% he went to the VA's vocational rehabilitation program, which was set up about a month ago by appointment. So he is told to fill all this paperwork out before he goes, with all the expenses we have, what he brings in, etc. They don't even GLANCE at the paperwork he brings. EVERYTHING pertaining to finances, because this program is in place to help veterans with disabilities find stable, viable work that won't aggravate their disabilities. He gets there this morning, and he is told the same thing I just said. That their job is to find him work. They test him, and bless his heart, he only got three hours of sleep so he didn't do well. From the MOMENT he walked into the office they were pushing the Post 9/11 GI Bill on him, which is just a new form of GI Bill starting soon, for those of us that w...