This may sound like the start of a bad joke because it is so difficult to receive any type of benefit from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). However, Veterans and family members do receive collection letters from VA. This VA debt-collection correspondence is issued by VA’s Debt Management Center, or DMC.
The DMC has recently become quite aggressive about identifying and collecting on debt – even if it’s not really debt. DMC’s new “activism” is primarily a result of unfair atmospheric concerns that Veterans and their families are gaming VA’s benefits system to obtain an undeserved free ride.
I just received a letter which appears to be from VA’s Debt Management Center (DMC)? What do I do? Continue reading