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VA Scandals
Shreddergate and other scandals
On the 13th of October, 2008, VA Watchdog dot Org broke the story about documents found in shredder bins at the VA's Detroit Regional Office.
A number of those documents were critical to veterans' disability claims.
As the story unfolded, VA finally began to release information on the incident and we learned that more than one Regional Office was involved in this shredder scandal.
The VA's Office of Inspector General (VAOIG) is investigating.
VA has instituted new guidelines regarding handling of documents.
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Congressman Filner, Chairman if the House VAC , has called for a hearing on the GI Bill as well as the recent fiasco involves a growing amount of critical claims documents that were destroyed by the VA in numerous VAROs not just the first four the VA OIG investigated.These hearing will be held the week of Nov 17th and available to the public.That doesnt give vets and widows much time- but they can still send letters of protest to the committee on this latest VA fiasco. This is a chance to have some input into this hearing by writing to Congressman Filner and the other commiittee members if you yourself have experienced this problem- We can start assuming that-if t…
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VA investigators find entire claims and other critical documents in shredding bins at Detroit Regional Office. VA official will only say, "I can't talk about that." http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfoct08/nf101308-1.htm
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This Shreddergate could be really misused by the DVA for the very purpose of continuance of its delaying tactics. Given the massive amount of claims, both newly filed and soon-to-be-resolved, this incident could very well be used efficiently by the VA as an excuse to halt the claims process in its tracks. I can just visualize the following: "We're having a stand down to review policies and procedures." Of course this would require everybody in the claims process to attend useless meetings, re-training classes, etc. "We are currently in the process of accounting for each and every claim file." Everybody in the claim process is runing around and physically verif…
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