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Department of Veterans Affairs regional offices have been ordered to immediately stop shredding documents after an investigation found some benefits claims and supporting documents among piles of papers waiting to be destroyed.
Claims often include personal records supplied by veterans that are not duplicated in government files and might be difficult to replace, such as certificates for births, deaths and marriage.
In a statement, VA Secretary James Peake said only a handful of documents were found among piles of documents set aside to be shredded. But he is not pleased.
Originally posted by Maxmars
As a veteran who has been victimized by the VA and its monstrous bureaucracy I can truly add this to the long list of complaints I have.
They make us jump through dozens of administrative hoops, they string us along for years, and just when you think you are about to see them do the right thing, they lose all your paperwork....
or maybe they just shred it so you have to start over.
Grrrr
Thanks for sharing this. Now I gotta go drink a half-gallon of Mylanta.
Originally posted by Maxmars
In the interest of truthful disclosure I have to tell you; I abandoned the VA entirely.
I don't use them for anything now.
It's all out of pocket or benefits from my employment. Frankly, I will have to be near death and desperate to go back to the VA for anything.