Disabled Veteran's claim tied up, VA sues Veteran

UPDATE
VA responds to foreclosure on local veteran's home
My FOX Austin
March 19, 2014

The Veterans Administration Wednesday responded to questions about why the federal agency was foreclosing on a local army veteran's home. The letter arrived about 24 hours after the Natasha Taylor and her children were kicked to the curb.

Natasha Taylor spent Wednesday morning clearing away what's left of her children's Pflugerville dream home.

"I asked my kids when I got back from my last tour, I'm sorry there is nothing to make up for it, what do you all want from mommy and they said a house a trampoline," said Taylor.

Now that dream is gone. Taylor and her 2-year-old daughter are staying with her fiancé. Two other children, teenagers, are staying with a next door neighbor so they can still go to school. That neighbor is also keeping some of Taylor's property in her garage.
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Veteran being sued by VA
KTBC FOX 7
Posted: Mar 11, 2014

A veteran and mother of three is being sued by the VA and now her Pflugerville home could be taken away. She says this comes after the VA took more than a year to approve her benefits and never back-paid her.

Natasha Taylor says the VA was asking her to make house payments, all while she wasn't getting the 80-percent benefits she was approved for because of a back-log of paperwork. Now she could be kicked out of her home as early as next week.

Natasha Taylor served more than 8 years in the U.S Army. She says instead of the VA honoring her service, they aren't doing anything at all.

"I did three tours in Iraq, all while I was a single mother. I gave them everything I had and for them to turn around and not help me," Taylor said.

Taylor was discharged from the military in September 2011 after a 15-month deployment because of a serious back injury.

Around three months later, she says the VA told her they were on back order for any disability pay. She contacted Wells Fargo about her mortgage loan through the VA but they said there was nothing they could do to help, so she paid as much as she could out of pocket.

"I was trying to make my payments, I even made partial payments. I still didn't get any help and my partial payments weren't given back to me," Taylor said.

Over the next two years she received two foreclosure notices by the bank for not being able to make payments. She then learned in October of 2013 that the VA was suing her.

It's been a constant struggle for the Army Veteran.
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