Benefits that are earned.
Via The DC
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs chairman Rep. Jeff Miller accused the Obama administration of obstructing the work of a veteran group trying to investigate unprocessed veteran benefit claims.
The Obama administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) blocked American Legion experts from conducting a full review of the VBA office in Seattle late last month, according to a letter Rep. Miller sent to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki obtained by The Daily Caller.
Miller is now mandating that House Veterans Affairs Committee staff accompany the American Legion on future VA review assignments “until further notice.”
The obstruction allegedly occurred during one of the American Legion’s Regional Office Action Review (ROAR) visits, a 15-year practice. As The Daily Caller has extensively reported, hundreds of thousands of veteran benefit claims remain backlogged at VA, leaving veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments waiting for due payments.