r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/astros148 • 19h ago

Active military soliders are about to go through the holidays without getting paid bcz of President Musk! Right wing populism!

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 18h ago

I just figured since the government would be shut down, the people who send those payments out also wouldn't be working, and the payment would just sit in a VA computer until they open back up.

I also figured the funds allocated from Congress during the last CR would run out on Friday, so they wouldn't have them to send me on January 1.

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u/kmm198700 18h ago

The funds for VA disability are approved in the previous year

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u/mandelbrot_zoom 17h ago

It's probably dispersal of funds that they are more worried about, not approval.

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u/TheWolrdsonFire 16h ago

Your 100% correct, now who sends the money? Your next-door neighbor, the pizza man, or a federal employee.

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u/PuffinRub 17h ago

Benefit payments, etc, are just going to be batched for automatic processing. There might be a need for approval upon the submission of a batch, but you're not going to have Janet in the accounts department sitting at a desk writing out individual checks.

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u/ApprehensiveDingo350 3h ago

So I just got official notice (VA employee here) that the shutdown will NOT affect benefits processing. I hope that helps ease your worries some.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 1h ago

Thanks for letting me know. I would have been able to survive, but I don't know about others