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Report: 8,763 vets died waiting for benefits
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/military_concurrent_receipt_071508/

{EXCERPT} , By William H. McMichael - Staff writer Posted : Tuesday Jul 15, 2008
16:10:19 EDT

The title of the House committee report sums up what happened: “Die or Give Up
Trying: How Poor Contractor Performance, Government Mismanagement and the
Erosion of Quality Controls Denied Thousands of Disabled Veterans Timely and
Accurate Retroactive Retired Pay Awards.”

The report by the majority staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform
domestic policy panel, released Tuesday, concluded that at least 28,283 disabled
retirees were denied retroactive pay awards because rushed efforts to clear a
huge backlog of claims led program administrators to stop doing quality

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