Here is exhibit number 9208 showing the complete incompetence of the federal government. The Veterans Administration spent $273 million on a new digitized claims system and the result is a much slower process. It sounds like they just put the new system into place without testing it first and working out the glitches.
The Washington Guardian has the scoop:
The Veterans Affairs Department has spent $273 million trying to go from paper to digital claims, but it’s off to a bumpy start. In fact, veterans claims sent digitally are being processed more slowly than the traditional way.
That’s the finding of a new investigative report by the VA’s inspector general that provides a stark looks at the flaws in a project that was supposed to speed, not slow, veterans’ benefits.
The Veterans Benefits Management System “experienced a number of performance issues including system failures, slowness and errors in generating notification letters for veterans,” the inspector general said in an investigative report.
The program so far has cost $273 million, and officials said they plan to spend an additional $92 million by October. (Read More)
Money extracted from the productive private sector, sent to the D.C. corruptocrat federal bureaucracy money laundering machine for unproductive abuse and waste, that is not being used to care for our American defenders of National security. Disgusting.
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