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House Holding Night Hearings On The VA Scandal

7/14/2014

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Internal investigators at the Department of Veterans Affairs have  told
Congress that some VA workers were "cooking the books" on benefit  claims   by
veterans to make it look like the work was being done in a  more   timely
fashion, much like earlier charges that VA schedulers were   changing dates to
mask long delays in veterans getting health care    appointments.


"They manipulated the numbers," Rep. Jeff Miller  (R-FL) told me, "which   is
exactly what has happened with the backlog  of health care requests."


Miller said Monday night's hearing  before the House Veterans Committee  
will show how the VA set a goal to work through a giant backlog of   benefit
claims but took shortcuts and used smoke and mirrors to get there.


"You will see where they  have set a goal, but they have manipulated the  
numbers in order to  meet that goal," Miller said, as the office of Inspector  
General of  the VA will relay a host of charges about work of the   Veterans
  Benefits Administration (VBA).


"VBA continues to face challenges  to ensure veterans receive timely and  
accurately benefits and  services," reads the prepared testimony of Linda  
Halliday, who says  the average time it takes to deal with a veterans   benefits
claim is  249 days as of June 2013.

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