u/travisbe916

Filed for adding new dependents in early Jan, decision in late June, first payment on 1 Aug, and back pay for that time period was deposited last night. I've seen other people here report a six month process as well, so just something to plan for.

The change in dependents I submitted in Jan was approved in mid-June and the new pay rate reflected on today's deposit; however, I should still be receiving six months of back pay along with it. The decision letter in June mentioned an audit, but how long do those usually take?

My oldest graduated high school last month so she was discontinued from my disability payments. She starts college next month so I can get her readded; however, what is required for evidence? Right now all I have is her class schedule with her name at the top of the page. Also, it only covers the current semester. Will I need to resubmit every couple months or will the VA keep her on for the entire year?

When do you all start cutting back your bushes, flowers, and other greenery for the Fall? Feels like we had an early Spring, and "summer" conditions can run through September around here. This is my first year paying attention to this kind of thing and I have a lot of overgrown stuff that needs pruned as soon as it's the proper timeframe.

Enterprise Office 365 - I have a user whose Bookings links are giving a "This link is not valid." He's been using Bookings for a year and this happened about a week ago. He seems to be the only one affected. It doesn't matter if I'm trying to open the link he sends out or he's trying to open his own, we get the same response. He can open his personal page to build his meeting templates, but the "email link" or "copy link" is what is producing the error. His license is good, everything is set to public, and as far as I can tell the URL matches the same format as mine when I create a link to send out.

Microsoft support has suggested creating the link directly from Outlook calendar, but that didn't work. If I can't figure it out I'll open a ticket through my Admin Center, but wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions.

Enterprise Office 365 - I have a user whose Bookings links are giving a "This link is not valid." He's been using Bookings for a year and this happened about a week ago. He seems to be the only one affected. It doesn't matter if I'm trying to open the link he sends out or he's trying to open his own, we get the same response. He can open his personal page to build his meeting templates, but the "email link" or "copy link" is what is producing the error. His license is good, everything is set to public, and as far as I can tell the URL matches the same format as mine when I create a link to send out.

Microsoft support has suggested creating the link directly from Outlook calendar, but that didn't work. If I can't figure it out I'll open a ticket through my Admin Center, but wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions.

Tried several sessions of negotiating with your "Live" AI agent to change my internet plan. It took several attempts for it to recognize what I was asking, and then would only allow me to sign up if I accepted the phone plan that Comcast is pushing so hard this summer. I disconnected and got a real person on the phone who tried to only sell me a single plan as if it was the only one I was qualified for, and also pushed to get me to sign up for the phone plan. Between the chatbot and this customer service agent it felt like Comcast didn't even care if I signed up for internet. I called back a couple days later and got someone who was able to sign me up for what I asked for within a couple minutes without them even trying to sell me the phone service.

Getting back to the AI bot, I've tried asking numerous simple questions, but it seems to only want to react to a handful of keywords whether we're talking about Sales, Billing, or Outages. I tried asking about the upcoming planned outage in my area and it just kept replying with "You don't have an outage right now." I know that. That's not what I asked. These kinds of limited automated responses are what I'd expect a decade ago.

I need to upload some docs for my claim, but for weeks the website keeps giving me an error message saying I need to put them in the mail or in person. Any way around this? If I need to go over to the regional office, how quickly will be they be uploaded?

No questions, just an interesting data point. I had a C&P a few weeks ago to have a Sinusitis claim looked again (original was 0%). The result was for the C&P examiner to give me a 0% rating for Rhinitis instead but also put me in for a CT scan of my nasal cavity. My VSO called me up and said "Hey, they put in the notes here they found something in your C&P sinus x-ray and think you should have it identified." I didn't think that was something they did. The next available appointment at my VA hospital is in freaking September, but that's a different issue.