Veterans with disability claims pending in the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ Houston office were left without a decision or explanation after a worker inappropriately dumped their cases, according to the agency’s inspector general.
The IG confirmed the employee was improperly removing cases or changing the electronic records on claims without taking the proper action to render a decision, the report released Monday said. An internal review team at the VA Regional Office in Houston reached the same conclusion.
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