Berta Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfmay09/nf050609-1.htm from claims stuff found in VA parking lots, to unopened mail etc- he just found a widow's claim for DIC from 2007 and they still have not sent the widow a 21-534 form this guy is putting his VA job on the line for all of us. 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 May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 This is just so...so...so...wrong. Why in the hell isn't the VAOIG doing anything -- because even they, don't care about doing good work. carlie Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Like I've said all along with the VAOIG.....it's the fox guarding the henhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gp747 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 i dont know who the whistleblower is ,but he or she should be promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Corpsman Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 This has always been the problem of the VA (VBA and VHA)...in my early activist years I and a few others were able to discover by doing the math that in any given year VA grants 4% of claims pending; this number had nothing to due with claims filed in any given year. I doubt that this has changed...when you think about it as the number of filed claims increases, the number of granted claims remains the same, creating the backlog of paper claims. What do they do with all this paper? It begins to pile up in offices...put it in boxes...don't bother to open it, just put it in boxes. As boxes fill up rooms, storage space must be found or records destroyed. When VHA went to computer records here at Hines...the old paper medical records were dumped into a storage room...the stacks of paper medical records was from floor to ceiling. When you asked for copies of things that you had in the paper record, it was easier for the medical records technition to say that it was lost than to go to the storage room to look for your records. This is similar to the fire in the St. Louis record center. That place must have been huge for all those records to be lost in that fire. Guess again, if the records are in storage, no one wants to look for them because there was no system for storing old paper documents in these places, so they threw them in boxes and threw the boxes into storage rooms and stacked them as high as the ceilings. This is your VA at work for you. This whistler is not the first and won't be the last, we complained about this up the chain of command in VA back in the eighties and the nineties. You must keep copies of all your records to date...and those who have cases that are still pending for thirty years or so, because of lack of medical documentation by VA medical centers...check on the date that your medical center went to computer records and then ask what they did with all the old paper charts from before the computerized records. Always In Service To Veterans, The Corpsman Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadIt.com Elder Pete53 Posted May 7, 2009 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted May 7, 2009 In the 90's it was 4 %. Its closer to 3% now and thee VA is an expert at delaying claims. Veterans deserve real choice for their health care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfmay09/nf050609-1.htm
from claims stuff found in VA parking lots, to unopened mail etc-
he just found a widow's claim for DIC from 2007 and they still have not sent the widow a 21-534 form
this guy is putting his VA job on the line for all of us.
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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