Reply to Board of Veterans Appeals (Attorney Advisor)

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Board of Veterans Appeals (Attorney Advisor)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Why write quality briefs when shitty ones get you a remand from the court 90% of the time?  VA can’t do what the law requires it to do in every case without increasing its staff by 1000%, and the defensibility of the benefit denials reflect that.  Right now VA wants to cut its staff by at least 15% despite the fact that veterans are dying while waiting years for their decisions.

Congress doesn’t want to pay for the level of service it promised veterans in the law.  It just wants to pay for the bare minimum it needs to be able to convince veterans to keep voting for their members.  Even then, a lot of veterans would still vote for members of congress that cut their benefits rather than vote for a different candidate that might increase their benefits but make other decisions on social issues that they don’t agree with.  If the votes depended entirely on whether benefits and access to benefits were increased or cut, they would not be slashing staff right now.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics