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but this is a backlog that secretary shinseki created. this backlog got as high as over 600,000 veterans in 2013. okay. when he came into office it was at a little over 89,000 veterans. we now have close to 300,000 veterans that are still in a benefits backlog. i m just appalled at this. to your point, i mean, a benefit backlog is one thing. soldiers dying is quite another. waiting for care. i mean there s a night and day difference between getting some paperwork and getting a toe tag. however, 55 veterans died a day in 2011 by the va s own records waiting on their benefits in this backlog. so there are many veterans who have died, who never got care because they couldn t get paperwork processed. the va s own memo in 2010 said we ll in longer game the system. stop doing it. that was four years ago. what did these executives do? they continued to game the
they tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. next time i m going to midas. high-five! arg! i did not see that coming. trust the midas touch. for brakes, tires, oil, everything. (whistling) on this veterans day, a new investigation reveals some positive news in what s been on on going embarrassment for the veterans administration. major improvements in those skru excruciatingly long wait for benefits. a quarter of a million vets were waiting more than a year for their checks, a 2,000% increase under president obama. a report today shows that number has dropped to 34,000, but the va is still far from meeting its goals. joining me now live is the reporter who broke the story on the benefits backlog, aaron
leadership, from benghazi to cairo, to damascus, we re to baghdad, we re failing across the board. obama s foreign policy is not working. the middle east is literally in flames. and the biggest prize of all is egypt. if we lose egypt. if he egypt becomes a famed fractured state, i cannot imagine what israel s future looks like p. very interesting. it will be interesting to see what hillary clinton has to sane the upcoming foreign policy speeches how things are going in this region as well. thank you so much. good to talk to you. there are some revealing new poll numbers today that show president obama s approval rating nearing an all time low right now. is it simply a case of second term blues you see sometimes or something different going on politically? we ll talk to our panel next. as the white house claims it is working on the benefits backlog at the v.a., actor and first advocate, gary, is here to show
with zanlts and they cannot work because of their service connected disabilities they file for disability benefits. those new first-time claims are taking nine months on average to process, for some people taking years. there s a benefits backlog at the department of veterans affairs that is embarrassing. the problem did not start under president obama but also did not get better under the course of his administration and thus far gotten worse. the problem in the last few years we have had way more veterans eligible for all sorts of benefits. no, sir were 30epolicy changes e overtly and we knew the consequences would be way more veterans in the system and we had way more veterans returning from war than any time in the last decade. that was foreseeable. the obama s administration s va has more claims to process. that s true and on purpose and true the v.a. knew more veterans would be coming home and filing claims but didn t come up with a system that could handle it.
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