VA Disability Benefits: GAO Testimony on Outdated Criteria & Needed Reforms

Описание: Elizabeth H. Curda, director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability Office, delivers testimony before a House subcommittee on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation program. The testimony highlights VA’s progress—and remaining challenges—in updating disability rating criteria that have not been fully modernized in over 80 years, and outlines steps needed to remove the program from GAO’s High-Risk List.

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