I could have sent Planky after them...
Deb:
Congrats on getting your meeting and the good news is that they will pay.
I think they are trying to scare you with all the fraud talk. Don't let them, that is just plain nonsense in this case.
Just keep all receipts and make sure you get receipts for EVERYTHING for him. Stick it all in one place, envelope, box whatever. Then if you really need to show them you'll have it. The chances are they will never really ask you to produce the records once you are in the system.
This might be a little different from most situtations since you are not a natural child, but an adult step-child thru marriage, who knows.
Glad you found a resource for this, it still makes methat Ray's child(ren) aren't taking care of this on his behalf. You are making your mama proud she raised such a caring daughter
Well, mom and I went walking tonight... trying to keep the old girl healthy...
have decided to skip the track until next week... It's the Travers this week (Saratoga's version of the Kentucky Derby) and after the crowds I encountered last night... I don't want to go near the place...
Thanks to everyone who has friended the little green furry butt on FB... he is forever grateful and it's now official... I DO have a split personality...
YEAH!!!
Yea, it took long enough....I don't care what he said.
I'll have to remember that....I may need him to come to my rescue yet!
Good for you and mom Michelle. You're doing so good keeping it up. You'll be in great shape in no time.
So cool seeing those pics of the Keel laying ceremony....I might have to join Twitter just to get the news
I have loved all the pics everyone else has posted....sorry I've been "missing" quite a bit lately....I have trouble alot at work w/ the DIS.
Deb - good luck w/ the meeting today....post how it went please
Hope all the kiddos started out the year well
NOthing to update here....everyone is doing well (Dad included) so am Thankful & grateful.
...Just got back. I was there all morning. It's a lot of information and requirements and procedures and MORE PAPERWORK, but we're nearing the end of the tunnel. A check should be in the mail sometime in October....so he says. Well we're definitely able to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
The first thing he said to me was, "So you wrote a letter to the Congressman?" I said YES I did....it's been five months getting this meeting scheduled. He said, "That's all? Most people wait over a year." I said, There was no way I could have waited that long. I'm going broke. Then we proceeded to dissect every penny of Ray's expenses and how much he pays and how much I pay....and how we will handle Ray's money in the future that he gets from them. If I spend so much as a cent without accounting to them for it, it's fraud and they will bring me up on criminal charges. Any expenses for Ray over $500 they will have to approve. You would think that they were footing the whole bill. I payout over $3k a month for him. They are going to be paying half....but they get to control everything. Whatever, as long as I don't have to pay.
Now I have to start the paperwork trail to prove everything I just told them. Then continue keeping accurate records and receipts or I'm going to jail. They're serious. He stressed it many times and gave me an example of a woman they are charging now with fraud because she does not have receipts for her expenses.
Now I've got to go pay my household bills and then I can start on the countless amounts of paperwork that the VA is expecting to receive from me immediately.
I'll catch up with you all later.
Thanks for ALL of your help Shell....drinks onboard if you hit paydirt on time! Otherwise, we'll have to plan a roundezvous at Mickey's house sometime soon.
Monica, SO glad Dad is good. Happy you joined twitter. Click on who I'm following and get a list. I have lots of Mickey tweets and some Disers that I follow. You can just click on an icon to follow them also as you scroll down the page. Have fun with it.
Everyone else....Hi....be back real soon.
great for Molly, ok for Wil. I think little boys need to run. He is bored of being still
Nan... tell him Shell said to run carefully and not to knock anyone out with his cast...
Nan... tell him Shell said to run carefully and not to knock anyone out with his cast...
Nan, tell Wil we're going to spoil him on the EBTA
Hopefully the sharks don't like red I am really looking forward to having all that vacation just to hang out with him
VERY cute pictures!Here's a couple of happy girls wearing fake nails designed for little girls:
And now a bunch of photos from our daytrip to Barkerville (gold rush town!)
Kaleigh with school teacher in Barkerville. Both girls went to the school session and had fun sitting in the class and writing on the chalkboard.
me with Ken's sisters walking to meet everybody else:
And since we saw Ken taking pictures, we did a Charlie's Angels pose
Shaelyn & Kaleigh with their cousins:
Holly says hi to Kathe, Deb and everybody who's not on Facebook much. She ran out of time/energy and has gone to bed before getting back on here!
Hope we can all sail on it together.
Yeah, and that was crappy when he said it takes most people a year to get their appointment. You'd think he'd NOT want to admit that their system is so screwed up. That's just unacceptable!
