It’s been confirmed. Employees at the Los Angeles VA Regional Office shredded paperwork related to veterans’ disability claims.
A new report from the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general discovered that a tip-off received in January alleging that staff improperly shredded documents is nothing short of true.
According to investigators, it’s not clear how many documents were shredded prior to the start of the review, but they did find nine documents related to veterans’ claims discarded in the shredding bin, despite policies existing to prevent this exact practice. Five of the documents had missing signatures from both employee and supervisor.
In one case, VA staff received a letter confirming that a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was unemployable and promptly placed the document into a red box designated for shredding. Staff did not include the claim in the electronic system.
They’re using the old shredders because they’re waiting for the new shredders that Obama is sending them — the walk-in model.
The diesel powered ones.
Perhaps this calls for the shredding of random VA employees…
welcome to obamacare…
OK, the Los Angeles VA employees are incompetent, immoral and lazy, but on the other hand, LA exceeded their quota for minorities on their staff.
Welcome to pretty much government run anything.
Incompetence, followed by cover ups.
The public is not served.
it is NOT the “Admin Staff” that is the problem, and firing or shredding every single one of them will NOT change a single thing the VA is currently doing to kill our vets. Only by prosecuting, convicting and then perp walking the Managers, Supervisors and Directors to JAIL will this change. How many years ago did we first learn of the VA’s official practice of doing nothing so the vets die just so the VA can save time and money? Don’t hold your breath waiting for the very first prosecution, because it hasn’t happened yet.
and just as a side note the old communist Bernie “The Red” Sanders, who along with his partner in crime – the ever dependable (just like his underwear) McCain – claimed to have fixed all of the VA problems with the wave of their magic “Bigger Gov” wand, THEY should be at the head of the duck steppin’ line.
If you believe that the gov’t has any intention of repairing this, then you probably believe in the tooth fairy and unicorns, too.
Sad fact: If we want our country back, we’re gonna have to TAKE it back. The socialists will NOT go gently into that good night.
Money to feed, school, provide medical care, and housing to illegals has to come from somewhere.
What does it say about our current political class that they care more for illegal invaders than for our veterans. Sure fascists democrats are 100% for this but the GOPe is 80% for it. Check the voting rolls.