Berta Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 at http://veterans.house.gov/hearings/hearing.aspx?NewsID=340 GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University ! When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we." Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Berta, I loved Ron Abrahms comparing VBA employees to the I love Lucy show, where Lucy & Ethel are on the candy factory line - the machine speeds up and Lucy and Ethel start hiding the candy in their pockets and blouses and hats and even start eating the candy. Well this is what VBA employees are doing to claims and evidence, just to hurry up and get a final end product code. Our works done - BVA can deal with it now. Ron did not mention it but taking it even further - the the BVA just passes it of to the AMC, any way they can. carlie Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I love this too ! Ms. Moore - VBA employee states to the effect - There needs to be more training - employees in the mailroom are not qualified to make the decisions that they are required to inorder to move the mail. I have been harping on this for at least 10 years. Ms. Moore - VBA employee states to the effect - I get paid $75,000.00 per year. So, I think I'm qualified to make a decision as to wheter or not something is ready to be destroyed or shredded. I feel this is donkey crap ! VBA had NO POLICY in regards to what can or can not be destroyed and/or shredded. During a brief VA employee amnesty time: Over 16,0000 items were found ready to be destroyed - but by an amnesty grant these items were retreived. This is shameful. carlie Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 A paperless system would be wonderful - but then we also have to question again - VBA employees taking home laptops or being able to access their files from home and the lack of security with this. Also, what's to say the imaging centers do not get backlogged and start spoliating themselves. Hell, Just released today - the entire skematics of the President's Marine One Helicopter were found on computer hard drives in terrorist supportive countries. carlie Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Berta, I have a letter from DVA to my US Senator Bob Graham. On one issue in this letter the DVA states, "On October 30,2001, Ms. XXXXX was asked to complete an authorization for Release of Information which would allow us to obtain her private medical records, this development was specifically directed by the Decision Review Officer responsible for her appeals. Ms. XXXXX refused to assist in the development of her appeal stating we already had the information and she was not going to send it again. Not only had I signed several ROI forms for this - BUT my C-file also already contained the specific private treatment records that the DRO was requesting. carlie Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator broncovet Posted March 4, 2009 Moderator Share Posted March 4, 2009 Carlie is right..do we need to pay someone $75k/year to "decide" whether or not to shred a Veterans evidence? I dont think so. $10 an hour and here are the rules: 1. You shred evidence you get fired. 2. If you are not sure if it is evidence or not, DONT SHRED IT AND DONT GET FIRED. 3. If there are any doubts refer to rules #1 and #2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 I'm not sure a paperless system is the answer. Look at what's happening with medical records? They still can't keep those straight. And what happens when the system "crashes"? It takes just as long to read a claim on a screen as on a sheet of paper. So processing times really wouldn't change much. And much easier to hit that "delete" key as to walk something to the shredder....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !
When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief
Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was
simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."
Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.
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