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VA records sketchy on veterans’ deaths
(By – Patricia Kime, Staff writer – www.militarytimes.com)
The Veterans Affairs Department’s system for verifying whether a veteran is alive or dead contributes to costly or embarrassing errors, including compensation being paid to veterans who have passed away and records indicating they had visited doctors after they died, according to an internal VA report. The report, a review of the VA’s death records sources, found the department’s medical records system lists as active patients 2.7 million veterans who are, in fact, dead. Read more…