Elections 2023 Had Only $3 Billion Spent On Helping Veterans
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Did you count mandatory spending? Maybe you looked at the shortfall legislation? Because it looks like the mandatory spending is much more and had been going up recently.
The total 2025 request for VA is $369.3 billion, a $32.9 billion (+9.8%) increase above the 2024 .This includes a discretionary budget request of $134.0 billion, a $8.9 billion (-6.2%) decrease below 2024, including $4.4 billion from Medical Care Collections and $307
million from the Recurring Expenses Transformational Fund (Transformational Fund, or RETF2).
The 2025 mandatory funding request is $235.3 billion, an increase of $41.8 billion or 21.6% above 2024. The 2025 mandatory funding includes $210.6 billion in traditional benefits to Veterans, plus$200 million for Major Medical Facility leases and $24.5 billion for the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund (TEF).
The total 2025 request for VA is $369.3 billion, a $32.9 billion (+9.8%) increase above the 2024 .This includes a discretionary budget request of $134.0 billion, a $8.9 billion (-6.2%) decrease below 2024, including $4.4 billion from Medical Care Collections and $307
million from the Recurring Expenses Transformational Fund (Transformational Fund, or RETF2).
The 2025 mandatory funding request is $235.3 billion, an increase of $41.8 billion or 21.6% above 2024. The 2025 mandatory funding includes $210.6 billion in traditional benefits to Veterans, plus$200 million for Major Medical Facility leases and $24.5 billion for the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund (TEF).
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That's more than enough, and I say that as someone who's served
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Compared to what we are spending on Illegal Aliens.... "ONLY" is an appropriate term.
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HE, First things first, Thank You For Your Service !
Personally spent Many Hours cramped in line at V.A. hospitals in NC that were over-crowded with elderly Veterans in need of help - Only available there. Some spent hours in line needing a prescription refill that couldn't be done by phone...F'n Bull$hit to the max!
Wish we spent more on our Veterans than for people with no US ties at all.
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A major part of the problem was that most of the money was being wasted relying on legacy systems. Now, they are starting to use a system made by Oracle Cerner. That system should help with efficiency considerably once it starts to get implemented better. The government was just throwing cash at the issue for years, and nothing was changing outside of more staffing positions
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Don't forget foreign wars!
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Seriously? That seems high but looking into it, comes out too roughly 10k per vet. Not sure what the VA does or how it allocates funds
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Ever been to Any VA building, Anywhere? Those care centers, and the many salaries of "military only doctors" and what seemed to me as unfriendly zombie-like staff are included in the "Veteran Care" allocated budget.
Our Vets risked, and in some cases gave, their lives to support America. It deeply pains me that foreigners are housed while our homeless Veterans are destitute on the streets. Immigrants, Especially Illegal immigrants, handed multiple times more of our tax dollars than veterans should be a criminal and treasonous government act.
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There needs to be an internal audit and restructuring of the VA. They need to take all those drug pushing glorified pharmaceutical sales reps and shit can them.
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Apparently the government doesn't pay out pensions or something lol
What programs would you propose for vets that don't already exist? And you realize the US pays out almost $200 billion in retirement benefits every year for vets?
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We're the capitalist top dog, we can't let something like failing replacement rate ruin things
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I just want to have all the strawberries and I'm willing to give a few more tax dollars and pay higher insurance and rent for life and maybe sacrifice a few young women and perhaps close a handful of store in every commercial area in every city every other month and deal with A scuffle every now and again on public transportation because I can't communicate with 95% of the people riding using the tickets I bought them and if I have to provide my family dog to my new neighbor, that's fine too... I just want more strawberries!
The pesky vets have had plenty of chances to get me more strawberries...
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VA disability is out of control. I can’t take seriously any conservative who whines about wasteful spending but is entirely silent on such a grossly abused system.
“The share of veterans receiving disability compensation benefits is increasing rapidly and is at an all-time high. Between 1954 and 2000, the share of veterans receiving disability compensation was very stable, fluctuating between 8 percent and 10 percent. Today, nearly 30 percent of the country’s 18.5 million veterans receive it.”
“From 2000 to 2022, the overall VA budget grew from $76 billion to $267 billion (in 2022 $) despite a 30 percent decline (from 26.4 million to 18.4 million) in the veteran population over the same period. As a result, annual spending by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs per veteran has quintupled, from $2,900 to $14,500.”
“With total annual disability compensation expenditures increasing from $28 billion to $112 billion, VA spending on the program is now 83 percent as large as for Social Security Disability Insurance, the largest federal disability program that insures 10 times as many adults.”
“…nearly 40 percent of veterans who served in 1990 or later receive disability compensation benefits.”
“Veterans who enlisted since 2010 have some of the highest rates of disability compensation enrollment even though they were significantly less likely to deploy and faced a substantially lower risk of injury while deployed — only 1 percent of Army service members who enlisted between 2010 and 2015 were wounded in combat.“
How runaway disability compensation is straining Veterans Affairs
The share of veterans receiving disability compensation benefits is increasing rapidly and is at an all-time high.
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“The share of veterans receiving disability compensation benefits is increasing rapidly and is at an all-time high. Between 1954 and 2000, the share of veterans receiving disability compensation was very stable, fluctuating between 8 percent and 10 percent. Today, nearly 30 percent of the country’s 18.5 million veterans receive it.”
“From 2000 to 2022, the overall VA budget grew from $76 billion to $267 billion (in 2022 $) despite a 30 percent decline (from 26.4 million to 18.4 million) in the veteran population over the same period. As a result, annual spending by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs per veteran has quintupled, from $2,900 to $14,500.”
“With total annual disability compensation expenditures increasing from $28 billion to $112 billion, VA spending on the program is now 83 percent as large as for Social Security Disability Insurance, the largest federal disability program that insures 10 times as many adults.”
“…nearly 40 percent of veterans who served in 1990 or later receive disability compensation benefits.”
“Veterans who enlisted since 2010 have some of the highest rates of disability compensation enrollment even though they were significantly less likely to deploy and faced a substantially lower risk of injury while deployed — only 1 percent of Army service members who enlisted between 2010 and 2015 were wounded in combat.“
