EXPOSED: Veterans Affairs Department Ignores THOUSANDS OF COMPLAINTS

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The Veterans Affairs Department is in a total shambles. Reports about the abuse and mistreatment of our veterans have disturbed the entire country.

But, perhaps the most alarming report is this one:

WASHINGTON – The chief watchdog at the Department of Veterans Affairs investigates less than 10 percent of the nearly 40,000 complaints it receives annually about problems at the agency, even when they concern potential harm to veteran health, Deputy Inspector General Linda Halliday said Tuesday.

The Office of Inspector General, which is responsible under federal law for rooting out mismanagement and abuse at the agency, simply doesn’t have the resources, Halliday said at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“There is a serious discrepancy between the size of our workforce and the size of our workload,” Halliday said. She said her office has roughly 650 professional staff members while the agency they investigate has more than 350,000 employees and a budget greater than $160 billion. “The OIG is not right-sized to respond to all the complaints that we currently receive.”

But that explanation was not good enough for VA whistleblowers at the hearing, who said that even the investigations her office does conduct are cursory and often target the VA employees who report problems – rather than the problems they are reporting.

“VA OIG investigations have been half-assedand shoddy,” said Shea Wilkes, a social worker at the Shreveport, La., VA who was criminally investigated by the inspector general after he reported hidden wait lists for care at the facility. “The VA OIG has not been independent, but is working with the VA to do damage control, white wash and intimidate truth-tellers and potential whistleblowers.”

This is the kind of treatment Veterans receive when liberals and progressives are running the show in Washington.

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