Disabled Veterans VA Checks Stolen From E-Benefits System

Veterans say scam has their benefits going to S. Dakota
WFAA News
Jim Douglas
February 6, 2015

Benefit checks for all three vets never made it to their bank accounts. They say someone created fake profiles in the government's online E-benefit program, which they didn't even subscribe to.

Many of our aging veterans survive on monthly benefit checks from the Veterans Administration. But identity thieves have apparently breached the system somewhere. Algie Robinson, Robert Etheridge, and LC Moore say they were victims.
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Many of our aging veterans survive on monthly benefit checks from the Veterans Administration. But identity thieves have apparently breached the system somewhere.

"So, I'm broke," said 76-year-old Algie Robinson. "I ain't got no money to pay the rent."

His missing monthly check was for more than $1,100.

"If I don't pay some bills - like light bills - next week, they'll be turned off," said 81-year-old Robert Etheridge.

His check was for $600.

LC Moore, 69, says he and his wife pawned jewelry to pay the power bill. "Had to pay bills," he said.

He missed a check for $890.

Benefit checks for all three vets never made it to their bank accounts. They say someone created fake profiles in the government's online E-benefit program, which they didn't even subscribe to.

Crooks diverted the vets' money into a bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Some vets were told the account is connected to a number out of Florida.
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