Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension, Insurance, and Memorial AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Claims Processing at the Veterans Benefits Administration, Update on Processing of Persian Gulf War Claims, and Effect of Public Law 103-446, the Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 1994
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension, Insurance, and Memorial AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Veterans' benefits : improvements made to Persian Gulf claims processing
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken steps to improve its processing of veterans' compensation claims for undiagnosed illnesses that resulted from their service in the Persian Gulf War. In July 1996, VA issued guidance requiring claims processors to provide veterans with clear and useful information on the kinds of evidence that could be used to support their claims, such as records of medical exams and time lost at work. The guidance also requires claims processors to properly consider this evidence and to thoroughly follow up on information that may support the claims. Also, VA decentralized claims processing last year to help speed action on Persian Gulf claims. Now, all 58 of VA's regional offices provide training to regional staff on processing the claims. Because VA only recently launched some of these initiatives, their full impact is unclear. However, GAO found that VA generally followed its procedures in readjudicating previously denied cases. For example, in all the cases GAO reviewed, VA provided veterans with a written description of the types of evidence that they could use to support their claims. As a result of its readjudication of denied claims, VA has granted benefits to eight percent of the veterans whose claims were denied previously for undiagnosed conditions.
Veterans' Benefits
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721141708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Veterans' Benefits: Improvements Made to Persian Gulf Claims Processing
Hearing on Operations Within the Compensation and Pension Service Using GPRA Principles, on the Processing of Persian Gulf War Claims, and VA's Proposed Legislation to Limit the Liability for Smoking-related Illnesses
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on BenefitsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
VA Adjudication of Benefits Claims Filed by Veterans of the Persian Gulf War
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension, and InsurancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Veterans' Benefits
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Veterans' Benefits
Author: Stephen P. BackhusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Persian Gulf War Veterans' Compensation and Other Pending Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Veterans' Benefits
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Va Adjudication of Benefits Claims Filed by Veterans of the Persian Gulf War
Author: United States; Congress; H CompensationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331242789
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Excerpt from Va Adjudication of Benefits Claims Filed by Veterans of the Persian Gulf War: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, June 8, 1993 The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:35 a.m., in room 334, Cannon House Office Building, Hon. Jim Slattery (chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. Present: Representative Slattery, Evans, Edwards of Texas, Tejeda, Everett, King, Montgomery. Opening Statement Of Chairman Slattery Mr. Slattery. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. The subcommittee will come to order. We are meeting this morning to hear testimony from the VA and the veterans' service organizations on the adjudication of benefits claims filed by veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Our mission today is to gain current information on the numbers of Persian Gulf veterans who are seeking compensation, pension or death benefits, as well as the types of disabilities from which they are suffering and the numbers of cases in which benefits have been granted or denied. We also wish to learn more about the problems these veterans may be facing in establishing the validity of their claims. Finally, we want to be advised of actions the VA and the DOD are taking to insure that these veterans receive every benefit to which they may be entitled on a timely basis. I want to assure all Persian Gulf War veterans that we will continue our oversight on this issue and that we will continue to push for a thorough examination into the causes of the disabilities from which these men and women are suffering and to look for solutions to the problems we expect to hear about today. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today, but before we begin I would like to recognize other members of the subcommittee who are present and wish to make an opening statement. I am advised that our distinguished ranking minority member, Mr. Bilirakis, is unable to be with us today, apparently anticipating the arrival of a grandchild. However, he is very interested in this issue and has asked that his opening statement be included in the record. So without objection, it is so ordered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.