Let's be honest! Rep. Miller, chairman of the house veterans affairs committee, and company, instead of just attacking VA personal in their hearings and doing nothing, haven't since they rubber stamped the two recent wars, to help us Veterans 'torpedoes' what they've been attacking the long grossly under funded VA, and backlogs the congress created along with most everything else, as the country cheers on it's wars of 'patriotism' and refuses itself to Sacrifice!!
3 October 2013 - Before Tuesday, when agencies were forced to shut down unfunded operations or those otherwise exempt from the effects of the Congressional budget impasse, the Veterans Affairs Department had planned to continue mandatory overtime for claims processors until Nov. 16 and voluntary overtime until Dec. 31. But those plans have changed, a VA spokeswoman told Nextgov.
“As a result of Congress’ failure to act and prevent a lapse in appropriations, VA will not be able to continue overtime for claims processors,” said Victoria Dillon, the acting department press secretary in an email.
In May, VA began requiring claims processors to work overtime -- a minimum of 20 hours per month -- to process disability and education claims. The overtime helped the department significantly reduce the number of disability claims backlogged more than 125 days by more than 190,000, from a peak of 611,000 in March to about 418,500 on Sept. 30.
“This clear progress for veterans and their families is at risk without immediate action by Congress” Dillon wrote. read more>>>
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