If you thought you had seen the full extent of perfidy at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, think again. This week, the Washington Examiner reported that the agency is once again stalling veterans who seek to claim the benefits they were promised, once again in an effort to game the metrics by which agency performance is measured.

The agency is now refusing to answer Congress’s questions about its backlog of benefit applications from military veterans. It is unclear at this point how extensive this new problem is, but in just one office in Atlanta, the agency has put 1,833 applications from combat veterans in limbo. Veterans Affairs is claiming that these applications are incomplete because they do not include the applicants’ personal financial information. But combat veterans do not need to provide that information because they are eligible regardless.