VA Cleared to Appoint Legal Guardians
VA awarded authority to appoint legal guardians for impaired veterans
By Patricia Kime
An agreement between the Justice Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs allows the VA to put veterans under guardianship if they are unable to make their own health care decisions.
A memorandum of understanding announced last week by the department gives VA attorneys the legal authority to enter into state court guardianships or conservatorship proceedings in cases where veterans don’t have family or legal representation to determine medical treatment.
VA officials say the process will help hundreds of veterans hospitalized at VA facilities who are unable to transition to more appropriate settings.
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Carl Blake, CEO of Paralyzed Veterans of America, said court-ordered guardianships or conservatorships could result in a veteran’s loss of rights or lead to unnecessary institutionalization.Blake asked how the VA previously met the needs of incapacitated veterans and whether they would have access to their own legal representation — paid for by the VA — if necessary.
“I’m from the Government, I’m here to help.” Which is it? VA Watchdogs please keep a very close eye on this.
Category: Big Pentagon, Veteran Health Care
So, will these attorneys who are VA employees work in the best interest of the veterans, or the VA’s institutional interests?
Some will, some won’t. Some will rob them blind if history is any guide. Minimum oversight will be the rule and then when rampant corruption is uncovered everyone will pretend like they are shocked.
I’ve seen plenty of judges and lawyers go to prison for stealing from the incompetent. No way a VA employee will be able to resist.
You left out the obvious third choice.
I’d say that the obvious is the first choice. The lawers will work in their own best interest.
Cha-ching!
“…. if they are unable to make their own health care decisions.”
Oh, I’ve made my decision. I haven’t stepped foot inside a VA after I retired, and I’m going to continue that decision until the day after I die.
If anyone wants to try to put me under “guardianship” for that, well…….’nuff said. “Try” being the operative word.
I hear you; I once got “go to the hospital” sick whilst on leave. There was a civilian hospital 3 miles away, a VA hospital 4 miles away, and a military hospital 100 miles away. I chose the civilian hospital after hearing my WWII relations tell me about the VA hospital. My conscience bothered me when I returned to my base so I turned myself in for not using the VA hospital and promised I would pay for the civilian hospital visit. The GI authorities said they didn’t blame me and Uncle Sammy would pay the bill.
After serving, I understand why grandpa didn’t want to go there and don’t blame him.
Even now, somewhere in Minnesota, a solid pair of upstanding Americans by the name of Hashit ma Drawers and Ibn Al Fubar are filling out enough VA paperwork to make themselves the legal guardians of roughly a rifle company’s worth of non existent vets.
And they’ll get caught, and charges won’t be pressed because fraud is part of their culture, and then a district judge will rule that since the government issued the payments, it created an obligation and the fraudulent payments can’t be stopped.
Make it a family affair!!
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/despicable-kent-woman-who-faked-disability-sentenced-11m-va-fraud-scheme/EQCDE4YZM5FZRLWB7AJ43IKATA/
I wouldn’t go to the VA under any circumstance. They don’t give a fuck about any veteran.