Hopelessly Broken -- Human EventsWithin five to seven years, the Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that more than one million new veterans will enter their system, in need of disability claims processing, health care, and more.
The influx is both enormous (the VA reports it served 1.3 million veterans in total during 2011) and inevitable: with combat ending and the ranks narrowing after a decade and a half of war, many troops will begin the natural process of transitioning out of the military and returning to civilian life.
The VA that will receive them is already overburdened, battling a veterans’ claims backlog of over a decade that swept past 600,000 overdue claims just last week and shows no clear signs of improvement.
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My Comment: With trillion dollar deficits and massive budget cuts being forecast .... it's not hard to figure out where all of this is going. A new direction needs to be taken .... but government bureaucracies have a long history of not being accommodating to change .... and I (unfortunately) expect the VA to follow this trend.
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