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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim

I didn't realize until I saw VA Secretary Robert Wilkie give a speech Friday what typical Trumpian total asshole he is.

I hope veterans and others have good days today.

It sounds like a lot of veterans aren't having a very good time at all today and the VA Secretary has his work cut out for him:

'A train wreck': Veterans haven't receive GI Bill benefits for months

… The Department of Veterans Affairs is suffering from a series of information technology glitches that has caused GI Bill benefit payments covering education and housing to be delayed or — in the case of Roundtree — never be delivered. …

… There are many veterans, like Roundtree, across the country who are still waiting for VA to catch up with a backlog created after President Trump signed the Forever GI Bill in 2017. The landmark piece of legislation greatly expanded benefits for veterans and survivors' families, but it did not upgrade the VA's technical capabilities to account for those changes.

While it is unclear how many GI Bill recipients were impacted by the delays, as of Nov. 8, more than 82,000 are still waiting for their housing payments with only weeks remaining in the school semester, according to VA. Hundreds of thousands are believed to have been affected. …

… At the end of August, Veterans Benefits Administration had nearly 239,000 pending claims — 100,000 more than at the same point in 2017. As school began, thousands of students faced dire circumstances and some faced eviction, getting kicked out of school or taking on loan or credit card debt.

As the problem appears to have no clear solution, the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is holding a hearing on Wednesday to investigate the matter. ...