A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that, in some circumstances, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) used out-of-date criteria to make assessments about disability benefits. This meant, in some cases, that veterans may have gotten more benefits than they should have been entitled to, or that they may have far less benefits than they deserved (or, in some cases, may have been unfairly denied entirely). The report sets forward a number of recommendations for fixing these issues, to ensure that this happens far less.
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