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The Veterans Benefits Administration provides $95 billion of entitlements each year to veterans, including disability money, pensions to vets and their survi
stanley cup ving spouses and death benefits -- even American flags at veterans funerals. But a CBS News investigation has found widespread mismanagement of claims, resulting in veterans being denied the benefits they earned, and many even dying before they get an answer from the VA, reports CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews. The problems at the Veteran Benefits Administration have been uncovered in the wake of last summer s scandal at a Phoenix VA hospital, that rocked the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dorrie Stafford said a letter, obtained by CBS News, shows how badly the VA claims system is broken.It s dated July 29, 2014, and thanks Dorrie s husband Wayne -- an Army veteran -- for the disabil
stanley cup ity claim he filed in July of 2004. The decade-long delay is just one problem; the other is that Wayne died in an accident seven years ago, without hearing a word from the VA. It upsets me, Dorrie said. Why would you suddenly, after all these years, send a letter to a dead man Five whistleblowers at the Oakland, California, Veterans Benefits office told CBS News that Stafford s cl
stanley cup aim is one of more than 13,000 informal claims filed between 1996 and 2009 that ended up stashed in a file cabinet and ignored until 2012. Informal claims are letters from veterans expressing a desire to appl Zsui The Ultimate Power Lunch
Meghan McCain, daughter of the Republican Party s presumptive presidential nominee, is working on a picture book about her father, Sen. John McCain.Meghan McCain s children s story, currently untitled, will be published by Simon Schuster the first week of September, around the time of the Republican national convention. I am truly excited about the opportunity to write a children s book about my father, who is not only a fantastic dad, but also a great American, McCain, known for her blog, McCain Blogette,
http://mccainblogette, said in a statement issued Wednesday by her publisher. This book will offer children the unique opportunity to see the character building events that happened over his lifetime, experiences that led up to his current bid to become the future president of the United States. Financial terms for the book were not disclosed. Simon Schuster
stanley cup said that a portion of its net proceeds would be donated to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which helps wounded veterans and military personnel. Meghan McCain has no current plans to make a similar contribution, according to Simon Schuster spokesman Paul Crichton. John McCain s wife, Cindy McCain, had agreed earlier this year to write a memoir for Pengu
cups stanley in Group USA , but she changed her mind, citing time limitations, and the deal was canceled.Note: Simon
stanley website Schuster is owned by CBS.
