AMERICA’S WOUNDED WARRIORS GET SHAFTED WHILE VA WORKERS GET $5.5 MILLION IN BONUSES!

August 26, 2013 // By: Joe Calandra Jr. // Today's News // No Comment

Over 800,000 U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have been waiting more than a year to have their claims for medical care and financial compensation processed, let alone fully resolved.To address the public outrage this massive number generates, the Veterans’ Administration (VA) is spending $44 million on thousands of employees who put in 20 hours of overtime every month, until the backlog is eliminated, reports The Washington Post.

VA leaders aren’t just handing out overtime pay, they’re also giving $5.5 million in bonus cash to claims processors who have helped complete over 100,000 unresolved year-old cases.

Even though the VA appears to be making strides in the right direction, the facts suggest a different story. The overtime, announcements of significant results, and monetary awards appear to be a smokescreen for a horrible reality.

The “resolved” cases are the simplest ones. VA clerks are closing “simple claims”, passing “difficult injury” cases to other offices within the VA system or just denying veterans’ their benefits, according to The Post article.

Claims processors are also deciding cases based on the content of paper records – they never personally contact wounded warriors to learn more about their individual circumstances.

Are you angry yet? The mismanagement gets worse.

The VA admits the agency’s computer software is outdated and claims are all recorded on paper documents that are shipped around the country in boxes. Some have been lost or simply forgotten.

Meanwhile, the VA’s careless government inefficiency is making over one million Americans in thousands of disabled veterans’ homes feel just like those boxes – lost and forgotten.


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