Va Ceases Benefits For Veteran Suffering Ailments Linked To Agent Orange

[carlie]

"VA ceases benefits for veteran suffering ailments linked to Agent Orange"

http://poststar.com/news/local/article_3a1107e2-8f27-11e0-a387-001cc4c03286.html

[Bigred122]

It looks like there may be more of this type of stories in the future. The governments FY2010 Performance and Accountability Report has alot of inferences to PL 111-204 and PL 107-300. These are Improper Payments and Information Acts of 2002 and 2010. These are mainly acts to recover funds paid to Vets, insurance programs, fee base corporations and vendors that should not have been paid.They PMCs that are doing audits on anything out of the normal.If a claim has back pay of $25,000 or more it has to be authorized by 3 different supervisors and must pass STAR reviews in thats RO. They are trying to recover every penny they can. I've spent the last 3 hours reading the FY2010 report. I couldn't find any directives on the BWN, But they are going over every claim of $25,000 with a fine tooth comb. I even found some programs to ask my Congressman about.(FDC= Fully Developed claims= 90 day approval/denial and RO raters are to CALL Vet to tell them what they need to complete claim for processing) Only letter I could find was a letter from president stressing to every dept head to find the waste/ mistakes to recover any and all funds.

[carlie]

If a claim has back pay of $25,000 or more it has to be authorized by 3 different supervisors and must pass STAR reviews in thats RO.

But they are going over every claim of $25,000 with a fine tooth comb.

Only letter I could find was a letter from president stressing to every dept head to find the waste/ mistakes to recover any and all funds.

Retro pay of 25K or more only requires 2 signatures.

For a retro award of 25K or more, THERE IS NO STAR REVIEW (Strategic,Technical,Accuracy,Review) THAT IT MUST PASS PRIOR TO AUTHORIZATION.

STAR makes monthly random selections of claims to review for accuracy from all of the VARO's.

Retro claims paying out 25K or more are granted on a regular basis - do you have any link showing that "they are going over every claim

of $25,000 with a fine tooth comb" ?

Can you scan and post the,

"Only letter I could find was a letter from president stressing to every dept head to find the waste/ mistakes to recover any and all funds."

This reminds me of scare tactics - maybe we should all hurry and run - the sky is falling !

[Chuck75]

Based upon various hearing statements, etc. I'd think that the variations between VAROs may come into play when it comes to award approvals.

I'd really like to see the VA give as much oversight to denied claims, due to the admitted and obvious error rates.

[Bigred122]

Retro pay of 25K or more only requires 2 signatures.

For a retro award of 25K or more, THERE IS NO STAR REVIEW (Strategic,Technical,Accuracy,Review) THAT IT MUST PASS PRIOR TO AUTHORIZATION.

STAR makes monthly random selections of claims to review for accuracy from all of the VARO's.

Retro claims paying out 25K or more are granted on a regular basis - do you have any link showing that "they are going over every claim

of $25,000 with a fine tooth comb" ?

Can you scan and post the,

"Only letter I could find was a letter from president stressing to every dept head to find the waste/ mistakes to recover any and all funds."

This reminds me of scare tactics - maybe we should all hurry and run - the sky is falling !

I knew you would reply, so here is the whole report!! lol

[Bigred122]

I knew you would reply, so here is the whole report!! lol

The file was too large let me shorten it and I'll post it.

[carlie]

If it's from one of the goobermint's report's, that's just their propaganda

and skewed statistics.

Very similar to their reports and information regarding the "average"

number of days it takes to process and adjudicate a claim.

It ranks right up there with the Monday Morning Workload Reports.