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Even after the VA told him last summer that he no longer needs a caregiver. And then he mentions that he probably can't get out of the couch without help from his wife.
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Williams, begin the process of putting on a prosethic leg. In December , a bomb blast ended his Army deployment to Afghanistan. He lost both legs above the knee and half of his left hand. The program was set up to support family members of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
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They're mostly wives and mothers who receive a VA stipend to provide home health care that would otherwise cost the VA millions of dollars. When it started in , vets signed up in huge numbers, quickly overwhelming the VA staff assigned to the program. In recent years many VAs have drastically cut their rolls — often with little explanation to the caregivers. Christopher Kurtz waits for his chair after arriving home. Bottom left, Kurtz wheels himself up to his front door as his wife and caretaker Heather Kurtz follows behind.
Bottom right, Kurtz rests his hand, which is missing fingers from his injury. The cuts come at a time the program is supposed to be growing. Congress approved a major expansion of the program in May, though implementation could take years. Congressional sources confirmed that the VA has missed its first deadline in October to implement new IT for the caregiver expansion — raising serious concerns of further delay.
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VA says the department will not deploy the new system until it is ready and has been tested thoroughly. But VA also recently blew through a deadline to fix the IT for a new GI bill rule , and did so without initially telling Congress about the delay. Jillyan Motter holds her younger brother Gabriel Kurtz. Chris and Heather Kurtz had been getting the highest level of support — Tier 3.
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That meant a stipend, health care for Heather and quarterly visits from a nurse. But earlier this year, Heather Kurtz was told her standing in the program was being evaluated. And without anyone from the VA even coming to see them, the Kurtzes got dropped in July. And then to have a letter tell me, 'Well you're no longer on the caregiver program,' it hurt like a punch in the gut.
Because I didn't stop caregiving.
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I've always been a caregiver and I always will be," she says. The home of Ret. The Kurtzes are not alone.
Just across the border near Bowling Green, Ky. Williams also got bad news, around Thanksgiving. He's fiercely independent, and he still finds ways to bow-hunt and target shoot. But he can't do basic things like put on his prosthetic legs without help from Ashlee.
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He wants a shower, he needs assistance. It's not my choice. I worked full time before, at a job I enjoyed. The Williams were demoted to Tier 1 of the program — but once their story got negative media attention , they were quickly restored to a higher tier.
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Still, Ashlee Williams says the way the decision was so easily changed makes her nervous. Usually a still used for this purpose is made of copper , since it removes sulfur -based compounds from the alcohol that would make it unpleasant to drink. Modern stills are made of stainless steel with copper innards piping, for example, will be lined with copper along with copper plate inlays along still walls. Using this combination of metals is much cheaper as it prevents erosion of the entire vessel and lowers copper levels in the waste product which in large distilleries is processed to become animal feed.
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