The VA office of Inspector General is not entirely confident of the Veterans Benefits Management System despite the fact that there have been some significant reductions seen in the backlogged disability claims in recent months.
The VA disability system criticized:
The disability system has been subject to serious criticism from lawmakers and officials in the recent past and the VBMS price tag has also risen from around 580 million dollars to around 1.3 billion in recent months. Add this to the already decreasing number of tangible milestones, a lot of lawmakers have started to question the efficacy of the system and this endeavour at large.
Mark Takano had a lot to say in this regard during a VA hearing held on January 12th. He said that there was a paper-based system in place during the tenure of the last administration and this transition to an electronic system has already brought about so many problems that many are imminently going to follow. He further raised concerns by saying that there were already many problems present before the introduction of the electronic system that it was better if they spent their time figuring them out rather than adding new ones pertaining to the electronic filing.
Many experts and VA officials had nothing but “Aye” to say to the points raised by Mark and many other lawmakers have expressed their concerns in the same fashion as well. While the decision of transforming the whole system has already been made, people in general don’t want it to happen because where there are pros, there are some hidden cons that not many are aware of. Let’s hope that how so ever this pans out, it benefits the multitude of the VA officials and also deals with the concerns that are present in the minds of people like Mark.
