WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller and Rep. Jackie Walorski introduced H.R. 4102, legislation that would make an award of VA benefits issued on or after the date of a veteran’s death payable to the veteran’s estate. Under current law, only a veteran’s spouse, children under the age of …
The VA has accumulated a massive backlog of claims waiting to be processed, which it managed to trim from 600,000 to 400,000 – a still startling number – from March to November 2013. Obama announced that “slashing that backlog” was a White House priority in his 2014 State of the Union address, and his proposed …