AnCaps
ANARCHO-CAPITALISTS
Bitch-Slapping Statists For Fun & Profit Based On The Non-Aggression Principle
 
HomePortalGalleryRegisterLog in

 :: Anarcho-Capitalist Non-Miscellaneous :: Celebrate Evildoers' Inadvertent Contributions to AnCaps' Values!
 

 Oh Happy Days: Bureaucratic Paperwork Mountain at Veterans Affairs

View previous topic View next topic Go down 
AuthorMessage
CovOps

CovOps

Female Location : Ether-Sphere
Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator
Humor : Über Serious

Oh Happy Days: Bureaucratic Paperwork Mountain at Veterans Affairs Vide
PostSubject: Oh Happy Days: Bureaucratic Paperwork Mountain at Veterans Affairs   Oh Happy Days: Bureaucratic Paperwork Mountain at Veterans Affairs Icon_minitimeSat Nov 24, 2012 1:33 am
Through July of this year, 66 percent of claims for disability compensation and pensions were still pending more than 125 days after being filed, missing the department’s own timeliness goals. That is up from 60 percent in 2011.

There is a separate quagmire for veterans who appeal a rejected claim — the average time between the filing of an appeal and its resolution is nearly two and a half years. If a veteran fights a losing appeal in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, that is another journey of months or years. The court might send a case back for more review, and more delay. Veterans’ advocates call that “the hamster wheel.”

Give the Department of Veterans Affairs some sympathy: in the last decade, its workload exploded. Veterans filed more than 1.3 million claims in 2011, double the number of 2001. The department says about 45 percent of recent veterans are seeking benefits, each with about 11 to 15 medical issues, vastly higher than the historical rate after World War II and Vietnam. Many Afghanistan and Iraq veterans are returning with severe injuries requiring elaborate and complicated care. The population of Vietnam-era veterans is older and sicker than ever. And the list of ailments for which the department is giving compensation — like heart disease, leukemia and Parkinson’s, from exposure to Agent Orange — is growing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/opinion/the-paperwork-mountain-at-veterans-affairs.html

Oh Happy Days...
Music notes Music notes
Back to top Go down
 

Oh Happy Days: Bureaucratic Paperwork Mountain at Veterans Affairs

View previous topic View next topic Back to top 
Page 1 of 1

Permissions in this forum:You cannot reply to topics in this forum
 :: Anarcho-Capitalist Non-Miscellaneous :: Celebrate Evildoers' Inadvertent Contributions to AnCaps' Values!-
 :: 

Anarcho-Capitalist Non-Miscellaneous

 :: 

Celebrate Evildoers' Inadvertent Contributions to AnCaps' Values!
Index, Portal, Induct Yourself Here, Forum Technical Non-Assistance, Philosophy & Religion, Realpolitik Statism & Bureaucracy, Law & Order, Rights Individualism & Lifestyles, Laissez-faire Free Trade Zone, Science Technology & Environment, Psychology Edumbcation & IndoctriNation, Culture & Art, Ancapdemia's Ebony Basement, High Octane One-on-One Debate, Celebrate Evildoers' Inadvertent Contributions to Ancap Values, Idiot of the Week Award Nominees Are, Humor, Freestyle Miscellaneous, Ancaps Emporium, OZschwitz Slave Pen Downunder Boutique, Anarcho-Capitalists,AnCaps Forum,Anti-State,Anti-Statist,Inalienable Rights Defenders,Non-Aggression Principle,Non-Initiation of Force Principle,Rothbardians,Anarchist,Capitalist,objectivism,Ayn Rand,Anarcho-Capitalism,Anarcho-Capitalist,politics,libertarianism,Ancap Forum,Anarchist Forum,Vulgar Libertarians,Hippies of The Right,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalist,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalists,Forum for AnCap,Forum for AnCaps,Libertarian,Anarcho-Objectivist,Freedom, Laissez Faire, Free Trade, Black Market, Randroid, Randroids, Rothbardian, AynArchist,Anarcho-Capitalist Forum, Anarchism, Anarchy, Free Market Anarchism, Free Market Anarchy, Market Anarchy, Market Anarchism, Volunteerism, Libertarian anarchism,
Free forum | ©phpBB | Free forum support | Report an abuse | Forumotion.com