MALINGERING Veterans Committing FRAUD For VA Disability Claims And VA Ratings
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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- Clay
people scan through the videos without see the titles but not watch to see what you are talking about. They are left with negative impressions of Veterans. Stop with these titles that slander Veterans
With regards to mental health. I've known several veterans who committed suicide and I had no idea they were even battling depression.
@64ig6kg0 Why do you think it was due to depression and not something else? My husband got early-onset Alzheimer's in his late 30's due to toxic exposures at Camp Lejeune and Agent Orange when overseas. He was also a soccer player and had a closed head injury from a car accident that left him in a coma for a bit, with a metal plate in his forehead from the trauma injuries.
Now we know those as contributing factors of dementia, but in 1990 that was unknown. He had no idea what was happening, just that he could no longer function and "was losing his mind". Not something a former recon Marine will live with. Non-functional brain with no answers or help? So he eliminated himself rather than live that way.
Sadly that's how the real stuff goes down. Never know until it's too late.
I know a lot of veterans that were 100% P&T and still committed suicide. Mental health issues are really hard on some people.
@@BrendaMaggio-k6m🕊
I'm 100% p&t depression. I still think about checking out all the time. I have a propane camp stove in my closet. I call it 'my escape pod'.
The other side of the coin is that many service members will not get medical care when they needed it during their service for fear of being the "sick call ranger", this caused them a whole lot of headache when they try to claim VA benefits.
Exactly! I was an Air Force Cop and the word malingering was used to describe people who dared to go to sick call. I saw guys who had broken arms and legs sent back on post. Pregnant women would pull base entry duty while six months pregnant. And those of us who were assigned to nuke missions couldn't take as much as an aspirin without a doctor signing off. Anyone remember the term walking wounded? There were things as I look back on I should have reported to sick call for and sought more treatment.
@@ThomasPrice-g9f Sorry to hear that brother. Hope you got through the system and got the care and benefit you deserved.
SO TRUE
This is true. You definitely get shit on for using sick call let alone any other form of health care.
Sarne Major pushed down the battalion there are to be no appointments before 0930. Ever. Also, no appointments on Monday mornings, Wednesday, Thursday mornings , Friday... During ranges, ftx, or buildup/recovery of ftx.
"GFSF troop!!"
Security clearance is another big one. Certain MOS's, assignments, schools, etc., often require some sort of security clearance. To lose it do to medical reasons, is a career ender. Another reason people avoid seeking treatment they may need.
Clay! Thank you so much for shouting out my video and your support as always. I truly appreciate it. And of course this is a great discussion on malingering itself - that is such a great point about malingering being a step below fraud. It's good to differentiate the two. And excellent points on the evidence needed - with the evaluations I do for Veterans with MST, it is one of the most painful things for Veterans to go through. During the interview, I can really detect the emotional pain the person is going through - not only that, their medical evidence is extensive with therapy visits, sometimes medication management, etc. I think it would be extremely difficult for someone to constantly talk about potentially "fake MST" dozens of times with multiple providers - I am not saying it's not possible, but that would be a great deal of pain and embarrassment to go through. Thank you for going into this.
Hi Dr. Sharma. I plan to watch your video next so, TIA for your time. Great points about faking sexual trauma. In my case, I actually denied the MST for 40+ years until my current VA therapist worded the question very specifically. She said, "Did you ever feel trapped or like you couldn't say no?" and everything clicked into place. Until then, MST in my head was violent and extreme. I suppose it didn't help that I'm from the "boys will be boys" generation. I'm thankful that I understand now, as painful as it may be.
@bettymk1 i am currently trying to get service connected for PTSD due to MST. It took me 38 years to come face to face with what happened to me. For over 3 decades it affected my day to day life and my marriage which almost ended at one point about 8 years ago. As a man specifically specifically Marine you just did not speak about these things. I wanted to forget but the fam was breaking and I feared inwas going to end it. I finally told my wife and her response was great. She knew there was always something nit right. Like I was carrying a great burden that was eating me up inside. I started therapy and honestly it was one of the most painful things I ever dealt with. Saying out loud what happened really hurt. It immediate gave me a panic attack of which I have been dealing with for decades but it was so intense I thought I would die. I stumbled upon an MST video that mentioned you could file a claim for this and I went ahead and did it. What makes it difficult is having to prove something that you never told a soul about other than the evidence of my performance going way down during the latter part of my service career. I am still struggling but hoping become an overcomer someday. Thank you.
@caeser I am wishing all the best for you. I had a lot of relief after using EMDR therapy. I hope and pray you get relief and compensation, you deserve both!
@@ConcisePsych Great Comment!! Im Really Glad the VA has Community Care for my Therapy! The VA here in Dayton, Their Mental health Providers Are Not & Haven’t been Right for me!!! Been on Community Care Therapy for 2 Yrs now!
Malingering is what most Veterans Administration employees do at work, exception mountain home no time for us but plenty of time for Hankey panky.
You win the best comment award for this video LOL!
- Clay
Thats what I thought too. The audacity of these people. The last doc I saw at the VA told me I needed to learn to live with my disability. Nah bro, I learned that you get what you pay for.
Marine here... I got lucky b/c early on, early in year 2... There was a 1stSgt (about to retire, so maybe it hit home with him) who said "get all your $%#^ documented. He added, "the Navy might tell you you're good to go. If you're not--go back again later."
I didn't try to outhink him--I just did exactly that. Wasn't a Sick Bay Commando and never fell out of a hump or missed one--but they F'd me up. As did some other "Hard Dawg" PT and training. +plus $%^# in Iraq/Afghanistan...
The LAST thing I wanted to do was go to medical because we were always doing things and the Op Tempo was often crazy and I was the one guy that could do this that or the other--but I made a way, even if it stressed me out. Overtime, everything I had pushed through--got worse.
So for anyone still in and grinding... GET YOUR STUFF RECORDED.
I had no idea I had PTSD. I just figured I was an asshole and overly paranoid. Only after filing a claim for an unrelated issue was I able to talk to someone who told me I was eat up with it.
VA was after me to go see MH in 07 (after Iraq deployment). I refused for years. Even stopped going to VA because of it. Fast Forward ‘23. During a GW exposure exam,examiner had pulled the trigger out (she worked in VA MH for years,she disclosed that at the end of exam). She got with my VSO about that, he filed it along with other claims. I never was going to file it, but said I’d at least see the CP examiner. He pulled it out of me also. They’re slick.
Thank you, Clay. There is no way that many Veterans are committing fraud!
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My Old Friend Is A Major and He’s Retiring Jan 2025 After 20yrs of Service and He’s Going To Falsified A Claim To Get A Rating!🎉 For What I Said Medical Condition Do You Have? He Got Pissed Off Andy Your Getting A 20yr Pension Around $4,000 Per Month The Difference Is Am A Vietnam Veteran With Agent Orange and My Appendix Removed W/ Cancer and Six Weeks Later Part of My Large Colon Removed and Amputation of My Big Toe ,All The Vietnam Veterans Are Dying From Cancer , All Military Veterans Need To Remember Vietnam Veterans Yes Some Have Higher Ratings , But They Are All Dying From Cancer and Not Many Survived Vietnam 🇻🇳 👍🙏
Thank you 🫡
I know I have no right to judge others and I am disgusted by those that do... especially other veterans.
Very true never judge what you can't see or truly understand.....Everyone has there battles
Thanks!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
- Clay
Reading the comments, it always amazes me how nobody shits on veterans worse than other veterans. Some of you really need to do better and stop being Karen’s.
The reason a lot of us arent rated now is that we were shamed if we went to sick call so unless you were almost dead, we didnt go to sick call.
Exactly what I went through in the 80's...
So true 💯
The flip side of this coin is there’s never ever a big push for the community of veterans to receive the benefits they deserve. All we get shame.😢
And I guarantee you every veteran feels defeated, even before they start to apply or even after. Always questioning the pain they go through.🥺
Thank you. Other veterans that don't have to go through this, or had a little trouble getting their 100%, but finally did, are the ones who attack the rest of us the most. There was a guy in the transition medical facility who had been injured in the sand, had major surgery in Germany, and then sent CONUS. The transition team told him, like everyone else there, that he had never been injured or had surgery, it was all in his head, and then went to work killing him off. Two veterans in each company were used as public spokesmen, and the rest were treated like this guy (except for the higher ranks; they had their secured area with a valet, not kidding.) He had a massive scar from his groin to his ankle. He would drop his pants anytime he met someone new, to prove that he had been injured, and had surgery. I don't believe he made it out; very few of us did, and not many survived after getting out, because there's nothing but attacks out here too. We get out to scumbags like this, doing videos to call us liars, as if we have special powers to fake an MRI. Betrayal by American people is bad enough, but I don't associate with veterans anymore; the majority are like this guy, flapping his jaw on something he's too lazy to research.
Clay and the doctor on this video are some of the few that are supportive of veterans, getting benefits and telling others to hold their horses when it comes to making quick unjustified judgment about others that may be going through things others are unaware of. Give them a chance and you’ll find them to be good people.
My platoon sergeant said to all of us when we got back from Iraq in 05 and filling out the PDHA, "wait till you are out before you claim PTSD or anything else. We don't need you all going to sick call and getting permanent profiles." C co 1/9 2nd Inf Div
Screw that, if you are not feeling good or are in pain, go to sick call and get it documented. Took me 10 years to get 100% P&T
Wild. And my sergeant in 2015 literally told me the opposite and said go to sick call for any problem so I can get the treatment I needed.
@@SpydrByte Well it was after the change in leadership in 09 when that changed. Filling out the pre and post deployment health assessments and getting access to mental health treatment. Maybe after the surge in 07 when more people were getting messed up and dying when they were stateside??
First Manchu , sir. “Keep up the fire”!👍🇺🇸🤘🏾
Older vets….really never went to sick call. We are all dying from cancers! It’s true! I am about to call a press conference. Maybe call 60 minutes. Veterans are not liers! Shame we have to beg for help. Where are our advocates!?
No you do not tell everyone.
I never knew I had PTSD I thought it was just the way life was. Until I got involved with the VA and they started asking questions. It snowballed from there.
Me too, and my counsoler -VA DR all worked and I went to a VA Dr MH CP exam and I was rated 100%. I told the truth and had story after story. My life is horrible and now I dont work so I have alot of appts
@Franklin-j2024 I hear ya brother It's rough I'm in counseling myself. I'm hoping that working groups and one on one things might improve. Keep your head up.
I Always just tell them I haven't spent time in the "Corner this week with my coloring book and crayons"...Some know what I mean. 🤔 MOST DON'T!!. VETERANS DO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Many veterans with PTSD began to experience PTSD symptoms long before terms like “PTSD” and “panic attack,” and other such terms ever even existed, and so they didn’t even know what they were experiencing, or why they were experiencing it. So they were ashamed to tell other people, for instance, that they were taking controlled substance drugs to cope with their symptoms and succeed in civilian life.
So many vets like these got discharged while they were still very young, like in their early 20s. They had big career plans afterward, wanted to forget the military, and went on to attend college or enter the civilian workforce, or to marry and start a family, and they desperately wanted to succeed in civilian life rather than fail. Many of these vets were criticized and ridiculed by their own families, friends and even doctors for abnormal PTSD behavior, and so they learned to shut up, cover up, and tell no one how they felt.
These vets were doing the exact opposite of malingering. They really had serious PTSD but didn’t even know it, or didn’t want to admit it, and many of them ended up with ruined lives, and some have died, because of it.
Thanks very much for shedding some much-needed light on this subject.
Thats me to a TTTTTT
Its like I wrote this statement myself bravo sir
@@fourvetperrie457Thanks for your reply. It was like once I started writing this, it just kept coming. I think these feelings run deep with many vets like us.
With all sincerity, if someone from the VA ever questions my integrity they are gonna find out my rating is legit.
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FACTS💯💯💯👊🇺🇸
And you might find out they are crazier than you.
@@Sherry-oj8xkAnd I'm not condoning it but I completely understand why a vet goes in and the VAs janitor is cleaning brains of the workers off the floor. Just saying
If we all continue to talk sh*t about each other, I assure you that Vivek & Elmo WILL yank benefits. Stick together y'all...
Bullshit. These guys went through hell. My dad is a Vietnam vet infantry and they said his PTSD wasnt service connected initally. I just got him up to 70% from 50%. Its a damn shame.
Agreed. My step father was a Vietnam Navy Vet and he wasn't rated until right before he died. America really screwed those guys...makes me sick. And it sounds like they are trying to do it again 🤬
MST was hard for me to even bring out- I had to go through 1 therapist, 1 PTSD therapist to land at a MST therapist that I am working with now. I never asked for a new therapist I was always referred to the next one, because as they dug deeper they noticed something else to come at the door to what I was keeping locked behind that door. My current MST/PSTD therapist has done good, though we are still working through a lot and have much more to work on.
Another issue here and thank you for sharing!! The amount of tubes veterans have to open up…when providers are switched/leave, during various exams, reordering exams, etc.
- Clay
This is terrible! I was a Corpsman. There were VERY few malingerers when I served. In fact, most Marines would choose not to mention legitimate injuries instead of having them documented.
I suppose fortunately, I was in a car accident and severely injured both knees and my back. It still took 19 YEARS before I got 100% P&T.
The system sucks!
I was the only first responder fire fighter on my carrier and I was never allowed to go to medical
I highly doubt these claims of veterans "exaggerating" their conditions. Sure, that happens but I dont believe it is widespread. If anything, I think a lot of us tend to minimize what we're going through. Espescially those in combat arms MOS's where going to sick call is highly discouraged, and "pushing through" on a handful of Ranger Candy is emphasized. That, and an attitude of "Im good, help that guy, he needs it more than me" prevail among veterans. I think we minimize issues, and I have to remind myself NOT to do this when having any encounter with the VA because I have caught myself doing it in the past to my own detriment.
I agree and what I think is happening is now vets know how to answer C&P exam questions. Thanks to all of the online resources available, vets know what they need to say, and more importantly, what NOT to say during an exam. Like you said, we tend to downplay our injuries and that is a really bad thing to do during a C&P exams. So now we know that saying, "well, sometimes it isn't too bad and I can do ABC" because one day out of the month we can.
It is widespread and looking at them daily you can see the potential fraud ones from space. It's like seeing someone wearing half ACUs and half PTs in formation and them saying they're in regs.
When I get a nurse practitioner's Master's theis statement that is a copy and paste of the last 20 times I've gotten one of their DBQs it's a safe bet it's going to fall apart.
The majority of the time the private DBQ mill medical opinions do not have 1 single piece of evidence specifically related to the Veteran in question.
Example of my calls: "chronicle prescribed NSAIDs have been shown to contribute to the cause and severity of GERD and is at least likely as not caused the Veteran's condition"
Okay, fair enough.....so does any of the evidence show that this specific Veteran been prescribed NSAIDs on a chronic basis?
"No."
Thank you for your time.
Over 90% of my supervisors encouraged me to go on sick call instead of toughing my sickness out. I served in the Air Force from 1971-2001 and I encouraged my personnel to do the same.
I have a high pain threshold and its constant. I went through a few appeals because doctors felt like I was fine. I eventually I got x-rays and finally got approved. Just because a veteran looks fine doesn't mean they are. Mentally or physically.
No intention on pissing on any parade but i feel like vietnam vets truly had it the worst second to WW2vets, the jungle, the spiders and snakes, booby traps and tunnels every 50 feet, the wet and rot, stench of death. The enemy always had the upper hand and were truly sadistic- im a gulf war/iraq era vet. Im thankful for everyone who has served this great nation and pray no one will have to experience war again.
I pushed through a lot of pain. I was battling Multiple sclerosis and didn’t even know I had it. But I was feeling all these symptoms and as an NCO, I still tried to push through the pain. But the pain got so bad and my legs wouldn’t cooperate and my vision goes blurry, and all these symptoms I was feeling. After the spinal fluid test it gave the confirmation of MS
Yes! The knee example is perfect and here is a real life testimony to support you, Clay.
My knee was so hard to get connected. Everything you listed was correct. I had in-service complaints, exit medical exam notations, and post service complaints. My first claim attempt showed with nothing on the x-rays and my claim were denied.
UNTIL
The pain profile changed, and I went in for an MRI ten years post service. Because I was previously denied, I did not follow up with a new claim. Add another five or six years, and worsening pain sent me to a new MRI which found a meniscus tear. Also on the scan and through arthroscopic images from knee surgery, I now had evidence of chronic and worsening degeneration of the knee. with two point-in-time MRI's showing the rate of progression, the C&P examiner was able to reasonably presume the degeneration started in service.
It always comes down to The Big Three.
When I got my PTSD rated they went through my military medical records and found my evidence and they had three providers sign off on that evidence. So there's definitely process with the in-service records that you have to provide and be confirmed.
100% truth. If you didn't have any documentation in military, you aren't going to get far. Anyone who lies, will be caught.
Correct
In service evidence in the key to any direct claim
- Clay
It took me 25.5 years of frustration, agony & confrontations with the VA to finally be awarded 100% P&T! It was not like everything I was claiming was not legit, it was dealing MAINLY with C&P Dr’s who either did not do their job correctly or didn’t care! I received a 100% Disability alone for sleep apnea with chronic carbon dioxide retention & chronic daytime sleepiness! It was in my military medical records for respirator physicals five years in a row! I should’ve been 100% when I retired from the Navy 26+ years ago! So I really got screwed! Trying to get back pay to 2014, that was the first year retired military could ge both full retirement pay & full VA Disability Pay! That might be the best I can do! Appeal is in since September 2024….. Waiting. Also appeal in for SMC-S waiting! Huh! Frustrating! Thanks Clay for explaining! Learn a lot! Still learning even though I’m already 100% P&T!
I met a man who served 3 years in the United States and got 100% disability with no restrictions on future earnings, he is very well physically and has many friends in the condominium. How could this be?
@@KthwzThe system is skewed. Cannot comment about his disabilities…… it mostly all rests on the C&P Dr & the VA Rater……
Years back I had a house in a run down neighborhood where some of the people I hired to do some small jobs like paint or cut grass were on social security disability for mental issues , later I found out that they used the drug meth or other strong drugs that more than likely help cause them to help qualify for social security disability. Some of the people wanted to rent my house based on the disability check so at times I would rent to them when they moved out they always left the house in bad condition. There are so many people trapped in this cycle and life style of poverty it's hart breaking. I sold the house to a investor because I give up on the idea of wanting to retire a live in the house. Some people I hired could only work about four hours a day because that's all the energy they had in them a couple days in a week
When I was in the Army in the 80's all the soldiers were threatened with being kicked out of the Army for malingering. This is why many of us did not go to the medical clinics on the remote bases. We were also given extra work and extra duty if we went to the clinic. So, what do you do? We continued to work with injuries. If the military doctors do not fully investigate your injuries and illnesses while in the military the soldier (on his/her own) must be knowledgeable enough to communicate your illnesses or injuries. This is an uphill battle for the soldier inside the military and when he/she leaves.
I never put in for PTSD because I was afraid it would affect my security clearance. Now I’m regretting I didn’t. I’ll never reopen my claim, but I wouldn’t mind talking to a doc about it.
Malingering makes me angry. I can't get recognition for the problems I actually have and the VA refuses to acknowledge obvious and irrefutable service-connected health problems.
I thank God the USAF medical boarded me out with a 20%, then when I came back 25 years later nexus was there and they easily could see the effects of injury, antalgic gait etc, they awarded me accordingly.
Anyone who went to sick call more than once a year would be labeled as a malingerer. Most of us walked around injured because we didn’t want that label. I was denied because the evidence supports acute but not chronic. It was chronic, but I only went when it was so bad I couldn’t work.
Shamtastic Sarne!! Malingering... Ha!! I remember when I was on a dead man's profile .. with my arm in a sling from a shoulder reconstruction surgery. Duuuuuude ... CO was trying to have me in the field wearing full kit.
So darned if you do, darned if you don't? It's like we're gonna get to the point where if you file a claim you're automatically faking. But if you don't file and get worse then it'll be "well didn't he/she file and seek help."
My biggest thing is for the people who have all of these “medical opinions”, put on the suit, go a few rounds. Meaning if you haven’t worn the uniform of any branch that doesn’t make you an expert. Hell even the doc in your squadron, platoon, division, etc. gets it wrong most of the time. I don’t understand what this new push is all of a sudden for so many of us who’ve sacrificed. As far as the MST you mentioned @TheCivDiv a lot of us come from the era of #1 don’t ask don’t tell and #2 stfu and do your job. Meaning that if something like that happened you were ridiculed,especially us men, for even wanting to mention something because they made your life a living hell because of it. And it’s funny that a lot of these doctors who are speaking against veterans would graciously over medicate the veteran but don’t understand not even the slightest thing about what active service members and veterans go through.
"Kinda weird to go after that population".. when referring to Vietnam Veterans and PTSD.
I don't want to be an ass here, I know your trying to put out the best information possible. But those where the guys who raised us.. and who trained us in BootCamp.. and for some of us, the guys we learned how to be men with at our first commands. At least for those of us who are Shield/Storm guys. My dad had it.. and was NEVER treated for it. Never wanted to even step foot in the VA.. didn't even mention he was in Vietnam until his illness came out as only caused by direct contact with Agent Orange. That' how that generation is.
And thank you for putting out the real truth about documented illnesses vs. post-service claims. Especially with MST or PTSD. I couldn't even get rated for my PTSD because I don't have a CAR, and a guy getting rated or even seen for MST without a police report in your file from the service/VA.. yeah.. that's not happening. Mental health is still a stigma for those of us who've served. We're not supposed to need meds, or be seen as weak or infirm in any way.. even those USAF guys want to be seen as "together".
this guy is the best VA channel, he is a professional. KMD89 VA Claims Consulting - Dewayne Kimble
You’re definitely a Chad
- Clay
Many people (Navy) do not have a diagnosis because going to sick bay (medical) was viewed as unfavorable and at times subjected members to discipline.
This maybe the case unfortunately and will ruin this benefit for those that truly deserve it past, present, and future. Why people in their early 20s with no combat MOSs, never been deployed to an imminent danger zone and gettin 80 to 100 suggests we have a problem
Here, we go with the combat crap again.
@ not ‘combat crap’ if your dd 214 says you were in one as an evidence for your claim
Idk man, as a lot of folks in the military no matter what branch are more or less encouraged not to go to medical in general (for the good of the division) as with one less person available it’ll make it harder on the rest, plus in branches like the navy where you’re typically on a ship or sub, you may not always be in areas where you get imminent danger pay and combat pay and such but you’re still exposed to mental stressors among other things not to mention the same or at the very least similar toxic chemical exposures, as there was an article that came out relatively recently where they found on the Nimitz (CVN-68) for example that due to a faulty gasket, it allowed JP-5 (Jet Fuel) to leak into the ships potable water supply and you had a bunch of sailors for like a year or two ingesting it when they drank the water on board or brushed their teeth or were exposed to it while showering naturally, not to mention where do you think the cooks get all their “clean” water when prepping and cooking the food? And that was on a carrier one of the important ships where someone’s gonna notice since an admiral is more likely to be on board, you think they’re gonna notice something like that on a small ship like a frigate, destroyer, or cruiser? Ha! Good Luck! I mean look how long it took them for the pact act, and that was for stuff they already knew we were exposed to lol
@rickai9945 Do people without it deserve it?
@@subicstationditosailor4053 yes, if you’re claiming PTSD because the weather made u depressed, you heard from friend of a friend gettin hurt, your NCO called you fat and get rated for it. Then, you’re a BSr.
Great video! I think too where there is a disconnect and I will use that term for lack of better word - is that we are told to go to these C&P exams with the “worst day” performance, and not maybe what a veteran is currently feeling. If a vet is taking meds and feels one way vs not that is something that cause come off as maybe malingering as you said but really it is not the case. I don’t know there are to many variables when it comes to this kind of stuff. Be under rated for your conditions because you are seeking medical help and it is work or go there with your worst day ever and potentially be over rated? I don’t know. Clay maybe you can make a follow up video on this.
Great video on this topic
My Navy HM told me that I am malingering that nothing is wrong with my back UNTIL I got an xray and it showed lumbar discs narrowed severely.
I personally a fn fraudster that got 100% ptsd rating for watching combat footage on a computer screen!! Not deployed!! Told me they did cause they’re tired of working.. has job at MSU Missouri west plains as a professor !!!
Some creepy teacher that goes to the park I go to said he served in the military. I don't believe it. I think he got kicked out for having a personality disorder and now he's working as a public school teacher
I remember fainting a lot in the ship, especially during duty days, because I worked 24/7, transferring fuel, and on watches, also, having I think was a stroke or something similar, so bad I though I was going to die, spent 5 days in my rack, and after that they took me out of the ship, sent me to LIMDU ( they were supposed to do that before), and now that I see my record, it didn't described anything that happened to me, instead it says hat I had a headache, just that. I've been really sick, I have cancer, and other conditions. I think most of us, in the ship didn't even had time to get sick, or complained about it. And after we leave, is difficult to "demonstrate" what we have, kind of offensive and sad, actually.
Y’all make me feel better though! I’m 100% P&T. I don’t poke the bear! VA! Y’all knew what I meant. Just like you have all said it wasn’t easy getting to the 100% threshold!! Etc. etc. I thought the VA was supposed to take care of us vets? I fought them for four years by myself. My body hurts so bad! I was in from 1988 to 1994 so after all my training was sent to Fort Bragg for a five-year stent there. No, it was not the 82nd airborne! No, it wasn’t any regular military unit. Yes I was on job status that five years and now at 55. I’ve been retired for 2 1/2 years! So guys and gals or shall I say my fellow brothers and sisters. I know how you will feel if you achieve that 100% threshold that you don’t deserve it? Felt the same way! But listen to these guys on these podcasts! CIVDIV, combat Craig, veterans info tap. All you guys are great!
You needed 14 more years. 20 years is the standard.
Good stuff 🤙🏼
My 1st Sergeant told me not to go to sick call for sniffles, Now I have sinusitis and deviated septum for not taking care of it. Lol Army needs you alive to get the mission done, then you get in the civilian world and start making claims, now your the problem!!!!!! I'm so pissed off at how we get treated and ridiculed for getting benefits.
Well, the first thing to do is to stop calling it "benefits." It is the department of COMPENSATION and Pension (Comp&Pen.) This isn't welfare, and we shouldn't have to fight and beg for it, until we're on our death bed, or after.
@@deborahhopkinson5243 Very True!!
Thanks Clay.
In the Army, we called it skating in the Viet Nam era. Perhaps because we were around ''jarheads'' too much or ''sea-going bellhops'' as they liked to call themselves.
In the Navy, it was also called skating
I go to the VA hospital and I got x ray and mri and systems showing problems. So I am in the clear
You still need a nexus that connects an in service event to a current diagnosis. Going to the VA hospital doesn’t alone connect you.
@Kenbot2 you mean a nexus letter? Heck NO. Negative! (Do not waste money on nexus letters)
If the connection is not far fetched, the VA rater/ C&P will check that "nexus" box and you are good to go.
What my statement was about was I have in deniability evidence to prove fraud
Malingering: The intentional exaggeration or fabrication of physical or psychological symptoms for external gain.
What’s up with all the fraud videos and spooked / bewildered looks on your thumbnails? Not a wiseass, I seriously want to know. Is it clickbait? You are articulate, resourceful and intelligent so your audience will be here for you. Happy 2025👊🏾
You can have the best content in the world but if nobody searches for your video or wants to click on your video, nobody watches your video. It’s the poison that comes with the glass here on RUclips.
- Clay
Seems a bit Freudian imo...
I believe it
Question about in service evidence? What evidence are you supposed to use if the VA/Military lost your medical records?
@@3ddon602 Buddy statement worked for me.
@@3ddon602 buddy statements or personal statements. That’s all you have at this point.
In the Navy we called the morning sick bay line the sick, lame and lazy line.
It shouldn't be that way. There is nothing wrong about being sick; it is better to seek help as a healthy person is better equipped to work being healthy.
when was the OIG report about the 3rd party DBQs being copy pasted and people got reduced ?
Anybody outside of combat arms roles should be looked at ONLY!
What?
A shrink seeing a Vet for 45 minutes once every 6 months. When I'm asked to rate my pain I think about my worst pain in the past 30 days and say 8-9.
The VA rater put down things to evaluate I wasn't even aware of like the scars on my back I got 10%. I didn't mention tenitus, the rater did and I got 10%.
I'm at 90% now and figure if I try to get 100% it just opens it back up for revision. Am I wrong?
So, as a leader be it a Team, Squad, Platoon, etc., I found as did my mentors, that roughly 80% of your time is spent on 20% of your people. The rockstars rarely get awarded (a problem in and of itself) and the problem children tend to get the most attention. I believe the "20%" tend to be the ones looking for handouts, the sham, the skate. The 80% tend to go about their business. Within the 80%, you have problem solvers, and problem preventors; the shining stars that get the least recognition because their work goes unnoticed as the problem never occurred.
I believe, from the approx 30% of vets that do make claims (vs. The approx 70% that don't) tend to be more in the "20%."
Why?
Problem solvers see the VA as an ineffective tool to solve the "what now?" issue after service. The problem preventors make plans well in advance and see the VA as unnecessary as they already solved the "what now" before they ever left. The "20%" bank on what they used in service that is, the government will handle it and they're not above malingering.
I've seen it time and time again where I have to pull a CSM, officer, hard charger, kicking and screaming to get their benefits.
Therefore, I believe it is true that we likely have more underrated vets than over in total. However, I believe it is likely true as well that for those that were rated while leaving service or directly after, we likely have more overrated than underrated vets. Be that as it may, the underrated vs. the over, again in total, is probably vastly more.
Clay you talk about this fraud so much bro, are you OK?
Good thing my last 5 months in the marines corps I was the “ sick call hero” … all the way too the bank
People who say veterans commit fraud are looking at it from a Social Security benefits system. Under Social Security you are only "totally" disabled nothing less. Veterans can be less than total and under VA law the veteran can still work as much as they can (except IU). So they see a veteran do work or do some activity and assume they should be total like Social Security i.e. an invalid.
What about Filipino C & P examiners that give higher rating evals to Filipinos?
Clay, please change the settings on these members first videos, so I can listen on the background on my phone will completing other tasks. The second I minimize your video to go to another app, your video stops playing.
That is a RUclips thing, it’s not me. I have 0 control over that. It’s annoying, I know 😂 SORRY!
- Clay
@ thanks for the response, Clay. Happy New Year!
On iPhone it works when you swipe away from the app unless you go to another a/v app and you can still play it in the YT window if you just press play. This also works if you lock the phone. You simply swipe away from the app first and let it play in the window. Then lock your phone. It will stop the video, but you can pull the maintenance tab down from your Lock Screen and manually press play there. This way it won’t be interrupted while in your pocket, and you can still listen if you’re working on other tasks. I use this function with and without Bluetooth devices.
If you have RUclips premium, you can minimize and do other things. And of course you don't get any ads plus many other perks, if you can afford the $15 a month it's worth it
Meanwhile me : disability benefits ? What’s that ? Veterans affairs can help ? Really compensation ? Like money ? Never heard of it. I’d never take money from my great countries government. Do I have injuries from service ? No I feel just like I did before I joined at 18. Aches and pain incurred while in the service ? Oh that’s just old age
Okay so they want a bunch of soldiers running to the damn Dr for everything that happens and not performing there dutys ,training etc etc, well if your knee hurts could be many reasons ,if I'd went to the Dr for every strain I experienced during service I'd have not been in there very long ,it's all about not TAKEING care of veterans after service !!!!!
OK Question: How is paying a doctor for evidence that supports your claim for increase in disability not Malingering or FRAUD? I mean for sure the doctor is not going to give you bad report since you or your lawyer paid him? I guess this is what you call gaining or collecting evidence for your claim?
A doctor can’t write anything without having evidence to write that ‘thing’ in the first place. Further more, the doctor doing that would not only risk losing his license to practice medicine, but would likely face prison time. I wouldn’t think so lowly of medical professionals.
- Clay
@@TheCivDiv Great answer!
Just wanted to say love all your videos and watch everything you and your buddy put out. Evidence wins disability claims! You are the best IMO!!!
You are promoting Bad Vibes against Vets and non-evidence based BS. It makes vets look bad and WE ARE SUFFERING. You are contributing Clay. No one watches past your first 40 seconds and leaves with that idea. I am helping Vietnam Vets with claims and it is heartbreaking how he VA disputes their horrific injuries. This is going to ruin your channel.
I agree 100%.
I know a guy that is 100% P&T. Never left the wire…… 70% for PTSD……. POG.
Combat is not the only cause.
To summarize because I know that was a long post. The content creators for VA disability and there are a handful of them lobby for vets to get to 100 percent. Most are sharing honest information but the narrative is always the same “100 percent” there are not a lot of videos out there that are saying, hey get rated for what you have and be sure not to over to do it. its how to get a 100 percent and all the ways to make it possible.
I can’t figure out if this topic is as hot as you make it out to be or am I just paying attention to how ALL of us Veterans are getting treated.
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- Clay
I have not claimed MST.
So if I have a fucked up ankle from service, and I get compensated for if I go running then I’m committing fraud?
that’s what I always tell people… Is that the process is actually quite laborious even grueling for a reason… It’s called quality control. I can tell you that as I go through the process there is a lot of things that I could point a finger at and say, why are they doing that but if I think about it objectively I understand that they’re doing it so that there is good quality control. If your claims are legit there’s nothing to worry about. it’s going to take time and you’re going to have to answer questions and you’re going to have to prove everything… And that is as it should be. 💁🏼♂️‼️ if the process was flimsy, then everything could really be questioned later.
Post Sharma's fees.
That’s his own business and to my knowledge it fluctuates. You’ll have to reach out to him for that. Side note, anyone with the name ‘combat’ to be used as an identifier is usually not that cool.
- Clay
Rather than answer a question attack me. The woke mentality.@@TheCivDiv
I have not been saying anything.
Everything you are saying has nothing to do with me. And the other one I do not have flat feet. I have never claimed about physical knee problems.
Clay I am not saying anything.
Yeah. Viet Nam, Desert Storm Vets and all combat vets exaggerating symptoms. 🙄🙄🙄
Yes, even those who were in debilitating motor vehicle accidents while on patrol and are now suffering from residual pain and mobility issues. This nonsense is getting out of hand about veterans committing fraud when these veteran's conditions are legitimate. The concern is these veterans who were not in the military long, yet they file claims - SMH.
So the pfc e2 who got his legs blown off after only 4 days in Vietnam...he was discharged in less than 6 months active duty....honorable g@@cnwil4594
@@cnwil4594 Agree my Brother.
7:03 Knife hand is out
Not a popular take, but you dudes really think you deserve $4,000 tax free dollars a month for that 3 years as a supply clerk at Ft. Leonard Wood and never seen combat, left the country, or anything else. Just because you watch a tutorial on youtube on how to get 100% by making multiple claims during that 36 months? Sure thing bro, and before you come at me, yes I am prior service, and no I am not talking about the dude who lost an arm in Iraq, or did 25 years riding the planes as a flight medic that can't hear now. So spare me the sob stories, I am talking about the 85% that go to the VA and never even did 5 years.
If this were truly the case, you would have the SAME EXACT issue with SSDI but magnitudes more simply because way more people are eligible to apply, where as the number of veterans is limited. Besides, veterans deserve those benefits! Don't get mad because your jealous and unwilling to enlist yourself.
Jump Status, training constantly! I was a 63SH8 MOS then. But trained with some of the best in the military taught me a lot of things that read your soldiers didn’t learn! So my body got beat up in my young age and now I’m paying for it, but with honor and distinction for what maybe I did for our country? So in what I was trying to say without all this other gibberish, if you’re at 100%? Don’t feel bad if everything that you said happened or is wrong with you physically you deserve every dime!
Hmm..... Sick Call Rangers..
Your thoughts are exactly why people now have no proof of in-service conditions. I tell every young person who joins (I suggest against it) to document EVERYTHING!
@@subicstationditosailor4053Thank you for saving me a response. I told my sons to get anything that was ailing then documented.
@@subicstationditosailor4053 Nah. That's what they drilled into us. Unless we were "truly hurt" Yeah it's old school and sucks. Everyone should be seeing the doc for a cough or an ouch. Will help out later. I did go to sick call a couple times after basic and that was for a sprain and got Ibuprofen. So It felt kind of useless.
i know that was a Barney style example, because the knee X-RAY is required for the C&P, but not required for diagnosis (defects in the knee should be present for certain complaints).
ive got both knees rated and clean X-rays. my issue is with knee instability and MCL issues, I'm lucky not to have MCL issues and have worked my ass off to keep my knees strong.
Blood tests for heroin..
Jump Status, training constantly! I was a 63SH8 MOS then. But trained with some of the best in the military taught me a lot of things that read your soldiers didn’t learn! So my body got beat up in my young age and now I’m paying for it, but with honor and distinction for what maybe I did for our country? So in what I was trying to say without all this other gibberish, if you’re at 100%? Don’t feel bad if everything that you said happened or is wrong with you physically you deserve every dime!