Roughly 100,000 veterans and their dependents. The Committee Also touched on modernization efforts and improved website access for the blind and visually impaired. This is one hour. Good afternoon. Subcommittee will come to order. Thank you so much for your patience. As you all are where we all have many tasks that we have to take care through the course of the day so many times they double schedule. We are here today to examine pattern problems with v. A. Gov affecting veteransby benefit claims. V. A. Aggressively build out v. A. Gov over the past five years. Today it is more than a website. The selfservice platform for veterans to access the care and benefits that they have earned. I absolutely agree that veteran should be able to manage their health care and benefits online rather than waiting on hold with the call center to do everything. But to perform all those functions va. Gov now interfaces with most of the systems we have discussed in previous hearings. Those systems and inte
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