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Nearly a half-million veterans’ record requests are pending before the National Archives, leaving families without benefits, the ability to pursue jobs, or the right to have military burials.
Republican members of two House committees co-authored a letter on Thursday to U.S. Archivist David Ferriero asking for a plan to remedy the problem and conduct a briefing before May 13. The letter was signed by 29 members of the Oversight and Reform and Veterans Affairs committees, calling the situation unacceptable.
Some of the requests are more than a year old, the Oversight and Reform Committee said.
The letter comes a month after an almost identical letter was sent by the Veterans Affairs Committee to President Joe Biden and Ferriero. The Trump administration had given the archives $15 million to clean up the backlog.
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The head of U.S. Veterans Affairs was joined Wednesday by Montanaâs congressional delegation as he capped off a three-day visit to the state at Fort Harrison VA Medical Center in Helena, where he heard from the public about their concerns and what the VA could be doing better.
Denis McDonough, appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed to the post in February, said the Montana VA âdoes a lot of things really well ⦠and one of them is this team works well together.â
He noted a program in which nurses from the Montana VA system were deployed into community hospitals, which helps ensure continuity of care for veterans and prompt payment of bills.