GOV/MIL VA travel pay

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
Now you have to go online to get travel pay. They gave me several sheets of paper regarding how to get it. Its completely greek to me, I hung on for customer service for about 20 minutes and gave up. Is this how the VA is going to be in the future with the bidet/bitme administration?

Judy
 

John Deere Girl

Veteran Member
Now you have to go online to get travel pay. They gave me several sheets of paper regarding how to get it. Its completely greek to me, I hung on for customer service for about 20 minutes and gave up. Is this how the VA is going to be in the future with the bidet/bitme administration?

Judy
We were just at the VA last week, and everything was the same for travel pay. Did something just change this week?
 

Groucho

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Veterans, as with the NG, can't be trusted. They really don't like us any more. They know who we voted for. They wish we would just die. Welcome to the brave new world.
 

TKO

Veteran Member
Veterans, as with the NG, can't be trusted. They really don't like us any more. They know who we voted for. They wish we would just die. Welcome to the brave new world.
Give me a few years and I'll do just that for them.
 

Bubble Head

Has No Life - Lives on TB
They have been changing at the VA since around November. Beyond useless. My last two visits to the VA they stole half my travel pay. I say stole because they know what they are doing. Had to have blood work that took me a week and a half on telephone hold to get an appointment. Got the appointment and there were two front desk people to answer the calls. I was waiting about 15 minutes and the phone never rang once yet I was always put on hold when I tried to call. The topper is they did the wrong blood work and now I will have to do it all again. Yeah you have to watch your back at the VA. Vets are a hunted group.
 

John Deere Girl

Veteran Member
They have been changing at the VA since around November. Beyond useless. My last two visits to the VA they stole half my travel pay. I say stole because they know what they are doing. Had to have blood work that took me a week and a half on telephone hold to get an appointment. Got the appointment and there were two front desk people to answer the calls. I was waiting about 15 minutes and the phone never rang once yet I was always put on hold when I tried to call. The topper is they did the wrong blood work and now I will have to do it all again. Yeah you have to watch your back at the VA. Vets are a hunted group.
My husband has had the VA do testing (to include bloodwork) that has been drastically different civilian side. DH has some awesome VA Dr's, and he's had some horrible ones that he won't ever see again. But we've had that civilian side too. Always read your summary on MyHealthyvet, because sometimes the Dr says one thing and writes another.
 

Bubble Head

Has No Life - Lives on TB
John Deer Girl I have had some of the finest Doctors at the VA and there still are excellent Doctors. Unfortunately they are caught in the same system as the Vets. The VA is a giant bureaucracy that is Unionized. They hate Trump in particular for making them work and especially for him kicking out their Union bosses from offices that were meant for Vets staffing. Vengeful, hateful, and racist is mild words for some of them. Not the doctors but all those that take calls or set appointments or fill positions that don't need filled. I had one Doctor that would see mistakes in my care and write orders to correct them that were completely out of VA protocol. He would just laugh and tell me his dream was to be fired by the VA for helping a Vet. Yes you have good Doctors but they don't last long. Few years at most. Seems like the bad ones never go away.
I wonder if we will still have hot water to wash our hands in the restroom. Zero turned it off during his reign but within one week of President Trump taking office we had hot water again. Just petty little crap like that makes one wonder who lies around thinking this stuff up.
 
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