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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.
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