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New York VVAW-WSO Fights Late Checks

By VVAW

Jose Rosario, a New York City vet, filled out his IBM card for payment of $800 worth of back GI Bill checks. He was told, like vets are told around the country, that everything was fine--your check will arrive in 20 days. A month later and nothing--he was told that his card must have been lost and that he should fill out another one. And wait another 20 days. With a wife and small baby, and getting ready to start summer school, Jose didn't need excuses--he needed the cash.

At the end of 20 days, the New York City VVAW/WSO chapter organized a demonstration at the Regional VA Office, demanding an end to late checks and immediate payment for Jose. Though this was a small action, the VA was so afraid of the organized strength of angry vets that the next day, Jose got his check.

None of the VA jive about how checks have to come from Kansas, or the moon, or anywhere else that the VA tries to tell us in order to put the vets off. The check came from the action officer in the VA--who is authorized to pay any vet whose checks are late.

NO MORE LATE CHECKS!