Trump EO On Disabled Veteran Student Loans

[WingsOfGold]

A "Permanent and Total" rating just means the issues that warrant their 100% rating aren't expected to get better. I know tons of Permanent and Total disabled Vets that would take offense at being called vegetables. Most of them are in better health than I am, and likely better health than the average American their age (they may have tinnitus and gerd and fused vertebrae in their neck/back instead of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes).

You are probably thinking about Individual Unemployability (IU) which is a higher rating meaning, well, exactly what it says. Still doesn't require being a vegetable.

When one is 100% disabled life is over as they knew it. Again, the line should be drawn at 60 or 70%.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Correct. As do service and non-service members who aren't "permanently" disabled.

This is nothing more than a political stunt.



As stated above, if the condition causes one to be "unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity" and is "a medically determinable impairment which can be expected to result in death or last at least 60 continuous months", you get your college loans forgiven.

Which is a small part of the larger reason tuition prices are rising so fast. Government-backed loans.

Professors should be held in check for their reimbursable travel expenses. They have as much if not more fraud, waste and abuse as the military.