UPDATE: Re: “Instead of a check, VA sends widow a profanity-laced screed,” Sept. 15
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
09/23/09 3:49 PM EDT
Bessie Krone, the widow from Montgomery, AL who reported receiving a scurrilous, profanity-laced letter from the Montgomery Regional Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, called today to tell me that the same two VA agents who had grilled her last week showed up at her house Tuesday evening – this time, to apologize:
“My door bell rang at 5:50 pm last night and Agents Hudson and Humes were here to pick up the original letter and Form 4107 plus the 3-page ratings decision. I’m faxing you the paper they left me, signed by both of them and myself [acknowledging receipt of the documents]. They admitted that they have a mole inside the VA and they hope the fingerprints on the letter and envelope will help to identify who it is. They apologized to me and wished me well.”
However, the disabled widow is still terrified that she won’t be getting her benefits on October 1, since the regional office kicked her out of the VA computer system right after the original story ran in The Examiner. Cutting off her widow’s pension would be adding injury to insult.
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