Fifty-year wait for disability payment
- 10 Oct 05, 12:00 AM
Fed up filling in DLA forms? Tired of waiting for social services to get back to you? Things could be worse . . . Meet .
Frank lost the sight in one eye during a fighter pilot mission for the US Air Force in World War II. He's 86 now. And he has, at long last, been granted fifty years' worth of backdated disability payments.
In a mastery of understatement, Frank told the press: "Veterans have to be persistent. If you let them jack you around, you'll get nothing".
Comments
good on frank. I should have had 13 years back dated disability payments when I came out of hospital, after being kept in for 8 years, when I was a kid, at the higher rate, but was told that they will only pay one year arrears. I'm not bitter. LOL.
Good on you Frank, there often seems to be stories of genuinely deserving people not getting the money they are entitled to whilst fraudulent claimants do, so congratulations on finally getting what you so rightly deserve.
Frank I admire your persitance and determation I just wish you could feel the admaration I feel for you. You are a real hero in my book