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Threatening sanctions against the department of veterans affairs, and a judge says yesterday, that the va is not living up to its word. by failing to help thousands of veterans challenge denials of benefits they say they need. and live in new york city news room with more, hi, doug. >> hey, alisyn, nearly 20,000 u.s. veterans died last year waiting for the department of veterans affairs to decide on their benefits. now, a circuit court judge is taking the federal agency to task for making it more difficult for veterans to receive their benefits. judge jay claguer of the u.s. court of appeals i...

Order that eviscerated the agency. david hoff is from the group at that brought the federal lawsuit that prompted the opinion. >> the judge came out and ruled in our favor, saying that va cannot proceed in this fashion, that they were circumventing the rights to veterans. >> in a statement the va did not go into details about the order, but says it's working with the justice department to form a response. fox news has been covering the story of the va backlog for months speaking with veterans and advocates all calling the benefits backlog a disgrace. >> we see claims sent in by veterans every ...

Va and longer for newest veterans specifically if you fought in afghanistan and iraq. the more worrying problem about this backlog over the last few years instead of getting better this problem has gotten worst, trending in the wrong direction. the vba. this is a hearing at which the va's backlog is being described. the woman in charge of managing benefits claims at the v.a. is the person who runs the veteran 0 veteran's benefits administration. vba. this week, they were called to testify about the insane backlog. the woman who heads the vba is called alison hickey and said her department has ...

From these wars are getting what they were promised they would get from veterans affairs. this is scathing. not only are vets not getting mental health help that we promised they'd be able to get, not only are our vets waiting more like 50 days or even 80 days to get a mental health appointment, the va isn't even being honest about how badly they are screwing this up. the inspector general calls the va's own data, their own reporting on how long they're making our veterans wait for mental health care, quote, of no real value. so in other words, how's the va doing in terms of seeing vets who ne...

Everybody wants that. that said, as much as everybody in the country wants all the troops home, polls show that we are glad they are home from iraq, and we want them home from afghanistan. as much as americans are united in that, we frankly have some responsibilities as civilians to how responsibly bring those troops home. and apparently we are blowing it in at least one really important way. look at this. this is a new report from the inspector general for the veterans affairs administration. a new report on whether our troops are coming home -- whether our troops coming home from these wars ...