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Claim Crisis: Long Delays and High Error Rates Plague VA
High error rates and long delays force Veterans to wait too long for the benefits they earned. Journalists and lawmakers continue zeroing in on the severe delays and unconscionable error rates at the...
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VA’s Claim Error and Delay Crisis: Los Angeles Hits 60%
Mistakes and Delays Vary Widely Across VA Today’s blog continues our review of the devastatingly high claim decision error rate and unconscionable delays our Veterans and their families face when...
View ArticleVBA Touts Major Improvements with “Challenge” Training
VBA Says Error Rate Falls to 1.5% Under New Pilot On Tuesday, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) issued a press release asserting a new training program...
View ArticleVBA Claim Delays Harm Our Veterans Nationwide
A brand new analysis by investigative reporter Aaron Glantz at the Bay Citizen reveals how the Veterans Benefits Administration’s (VBA) delay crisis hurts nearly one million Veterans nationwide. Our...
View ArticleCongress steps in to investigate VA claims crisis
Hearing scheduled for Sept. 21 In May, a 93-year-old World War II veteran in a wheelchair attended a congressionally sponsored public meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Why? His disability claim...
View ArticleCongress Orders VA to Prepare Plan to Fix VA Claim Crisis
Unanimous Senate Vote Tells VA to Use Texas Model to Speed Processing This morning we share especially good news for our Veterans and families: On November 29, Senators voted unanimously to order...
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Waiting for Our Veterans to Die
Newspaper Articles Reveal VBA’s Delay and Error Scandal Spreading Nationwide Our blog readers know at least 20,000 veterans died during 2012 while waiting for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to...
View ArticleNew Audits Reveal VBA Crisis Worsening
GAO and VAOIG Agree VBA Still Failing Veterans In a scathing if not surprising new report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) slams the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) –...
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Media Reveals VBA Claim Crisis In Baltimore
Investigation Prompts Questions from Congress This week, The Baltimore Sun joined a growing list of prominent newspapers across the nation providing hard-hitting coverage of the delay and error crisis...
View ArticleIraq and Afghanistan Wars Strain VA
New Reports Highlight Surge in Patients, Claims Most Americans know about the troop surges in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the national media pays less attention to another war-related surge: a sharp...
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