Study: Payments to vets with mental illness vary widely by state
December 20th, 2007From the Hartford Courant:
Veterans coming home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating mental ailments are discovering that their disability payments from the government vary widely, depending on where they live, a McClatchy Newspapers analysis has found.
As a result, many of the recent veterans who are getting monthly payments for post-traumatic stress disorder from the Department of Veterans Affairs could lose tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits over their lifetimes.
… McClatchy’s analysis is based on 3 million disability compensation-claims records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, as well as separate documents that the VA provided.
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