Tammy Duckworth blasts congress for what they are doing to the troops

Military and Veterans programs don't matter to this congress and that is obvious to everyone but them. Tammy Duckworth ran down the list on what has really been going on when the hacks in congress pretend they are taken care of.

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VA Freezes Expedited Disability Claims in Shutdown “Despite a 2003 law mandating that VA provide ‘expedited’ processing of appealed claims, VA is now completely ignoring veterans’ appeals during the shutdown,” Bergmann said. “In effect, VA is treating veterans with appeals as second-class citizens.”

The VA announced Oct. 1 that processing of appeals would be suspended and that, in the event of a prolonged shutdown, no decisions on appeals or motions would be issued by the Board of Veterans Appeals.

As of Oct. 5, the VA said the number of appealed claims was 258,077 -- a number unchanged since its Sept. 28 posting.

The number of appeals claims is less than half the overall number of initial disability claims, which was about 670,000 as of Oct. 5, according to VA figures. The initial claims backlog -- those more than 125 days old and not acted on -- numbered just over 399,000 as of Oct. 5.

If this is the first time you heard about military families on food stamps and public assistance, you must not know any of them or you've been reading the wrong site.