A well-known whistleblower at the Department of Veterans Affairs is charging that the agency has purged thousands of veterans' pending health care applications, leaving them without the benefits they have earned. Scott Davis, a VA employee who testified before Congress in 2015 on problems at the VA Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta, wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Examiner in May that the department has deleted more than 200,000 incomplete applications after failing to help resolve them. Davis said the VA has not sufficiently notified affected veterans on the status of their applications. He also said it has not been proactive in obtaining accurate contact information for the veterans through the Internal Revenue Service or Social Security Administration. Read more on Military.com.
VA Abandoned More Than 200,000 Vets' Health Care Applications: Report
