Confirmed: CBS News "60 Minutes" will broadcast the first-ever investigation into the endless delays and red tape veterans face obtaining disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In 2002, before former President George W. Bush started his ill-fated Iraq War, Veterans for Common Sense warned that VA was unprepared to meet the needs of additional veterans when VA was already overloaded with patients and claims.
What happened at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) - the VA agency that processes disability claims - was beyond our worst nightmare. And "60 Minutes" has the story.
Two wars and a recession have significantly increased the claims handled by the U.S. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs, slowing the large bureaucracy and frustrating many veterans. Byron Pitts reports.
"it's not my country it's the VA!"
Sorry to disagree but most of the problems the VA and even Military Care have, and most of our agencies, are caused directly by this country and it's unwillingness to properly fund the needs while having no problem questioning the ever growing Defense Budgets nor over charges by Defense Contractors! Not properly funded it ends up costing more to correct what should already be. Just like us returning from 'Nam after Korea the same problems and more are showing up with these two occupations and the quickly expanded needs of the Veterans of. Nobody back when and especially now mentioned anything about the Country Sacrificing and Funding what was to come. The Walter Reed, military care, fiasco was one of many that showed the lack of concern. When asked why it was happening response was "Well it's closing soon so we didn't want to waste the money upgrading the needs!" Even though they knew that's where the returning soldiers were going to!!
It's more then Care, the returning Veterans now are seeing many problems with funding as to the New GI Bill, if the VA agency was up to this centuries technology, which Shinseki seems to not only recognize but is trying to upgrade to, these types of record keeping problems wouldn't exist, but the People and their Reps refuse to properly fund which if they did would cost less to operate, i.e. Tax Savings then Less need to constantly fix what's missing, quickly!
Also this Sunday:
Preview: Offshore Banking
Switzerland's largest bank has given authorities formerly sacrosanct info on its U.S. customers because of tips provided by a whistleblower, who tells Steve Kroft the secrets Swiss bankers never tell.
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