This is a missed opportunity to do the right thing. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. We see step across the country point to the was suggested by taking the unnecessary steps in similar cases. I can point to and in nashville for ms. Mcdonald who will testify and of course in new jersey, i also have a case for you if youre interested. We understand the dilemma to reduce the backlog while achieving timeliness and accuracy targets. In these claims with answers binary prop suggestions and. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And member of the committee. Ill be happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. I recognize mr. Abrams for five minutes. Thank you. Ive been involved in veterans law for over 40 years. The va has faced huge backlogs before, and the va has had to deal with reducing the backlog claims faster, and almost every instance the error rate, especially the error rate for complex claims has gone up. You simply cant go too fast when you have complicated claims. The fist th
Congress has never denied the va a single penny for doing its job. The current budget, over 54 billion is being paid out to veterans and direct benefits. The balance of their budget that they receive right now is for administration of their business. But they are not doing business properly. I could see here for hours and gave the statement after statement after statement of egregious behavior. Wrongful denials and in some cases the liver of malfeasance. All we ask is you continue to press this forward. You consider our mission, to have a full Veterans Administration complete the rear commencing the way we do business in demanding full 100 accountability of repercussions for their actions. Thank you again, mr. Chairman, ranking number 79, esteemed panel. We are grateful for the opportunity to be here to testify in the pr to take any questions from you. Thank you, ms. Price. Now we will hear from ms. Mcnutt. Please begin your statement when youre ready. [inaudible] complex va claims. My
I asked them why action had not been taken. They told me that they were looking for lots of owl and utter control. I said that isnt relevant. You dont mean it. He already qualified. The lady was able to hear me out. I took her through the regulations and statutes, which would take me a long time to go through. The veteran ended up getting the r2. Its on our website. We had a mix of the va that the band in animal house. It didnt have lots of use. The momentum of the auction. They were going to accept those words. Kind of silly. Secondly, the people doing the work didnt know below. The va needs to do more to train people to understand smc. The legion, ammo ph does a lot of work on that issue. If you looked in our text book, we have a formula that Service Office there is an va can use to properly evaluate. Its complicated and you have to look at it each time. Thank you. Mr. Gillums. In order of the affected adjudicated claim come you have to have the tuition for things that are pretty abs
No wonder mr. Can sit down and look at all the numbers the va is working on that are generated on a daily basis. Congress has never denied the va a single penny for doing its job. The current budget, over 54 billion is being paid out to veterans and direct benefits. The balance of their budget that they receive right now is for administration of their business. But they are not doing business properly. I could see here for hours and gave the statement after statement after statement of egregious behavior. Wrongful denials and in some cases the liver of malfeasance. All we ask is you continue to press this forward. You consider our mission, to have a full Veterans Administration complete the rear commencing the way we do business in demanding full 100 accountability of repercussions for their actions. Thank you again, mr. Chairman, ranking number 79, esteemed panel. We are grateful for the opportunity to be here to testify in the pr to take any questions from you. Thank you, ms. Price.
Issues and make decisions on the 10 individual issues and compensate the veteran if theyre entitled to it as the rating decisions become as theyre made aware before to do the other. The problem with madison assistant right now today, that is very difficult to do. There are some barriers in terms of its much less efficient in the amount of time it takes our overall process to rate 10 individual issues at one each. The fixes we put in place will allow that to go significantly faster and been our intent is to do exactly that, which is rate by issue. So we understand within your bill. They testified on that previously that weve agreed without the concept. At this point in time, there were complications due to her system limitations. When you anticipate those changes will be made . I cant put an exact day. What i can tell you is every 90 days be doing a release. Im not sure which one of those releases that some of these changes are in. One of the changes that is going in and being piloted r