the families of the fallen. what they call making easy money. in 07, the va and insurance company signed a contract to provide these benefits. that contract still required to pay out lump sum payments, but they had a handshake deal in which the payment would be a worthless checkbook that would allow them to keep the money for their own profitability. not until 2009 did the va actually change the contract signing an amouendment allowing- and give the families a checkbook where the checks work sometimes and sometimes they don t. at that point, the checkbooks had been given for the past ten years and there has been a lot of war in this country. good time to be running a scam, no.