{"id":36971,"date":"2013-08-06T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36971"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:01:18","slug":"service-disabled-veteran-owned-small-business-program-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36971","title":{"rendered":"Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business program broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of you folks sent us link to the Washington Examiner<\/a> article about the government’s Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) program and it’s rampant fraud. The program is designed to give service-disabled veterans and their businesses preference in government contracts, but, as with anything else that has to do with the government, the intentions are easily defrauded. We wrote about Warren Parker<\/a> back when he was first arrested in 2011, and he’s just the tip of the iceburg;<\/p>\n

Only one agency – the Department of Veterans Affairs – is required to verify the claims made in the paperwork when a business owner seeks SDVOSB status. The rest do not even check the applicant’s qualifications unless a protest is filed, typically by an unsuccessful competitor.<\/p>\n

“The program is vulnerable to fraud and abuse,” GAO said in an August 2012 report, which echoed three years of the congressional watchdog agency’s prior findings.<\/p>\n

“The government-wide program remains particularly vulnerable since it relies on an honor-system-like process whereby firms self-certify their eligibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only way Parker was busted happened when he pissed someone off and they submitted his records to the government. <\/p>\n

From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The VA has since made changes to that certification process to great effect. “In 2011 when they changed the process for verification, 10,000 firms stopped, just dropped out of the program,” says Rep. Phil; Roe (R-Tn.) “That showed how much fraud there was in the program.”<\/p>\n

No other federal agencies have moved away from self-certification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

10,000 folks just thought it wasn’t that important to rock their lies. We’ve seen teh VA’s process fail when they grant disability checks to people like Joseph Cryer<\/a> and they could only find two people who had defrauded them with claims of being POWS, even though we know that there are thousands and more are exposed every day.<\/p>\n

I understand that the VA doesn’t want to screw any vets out of what they earned, but if we can do it from our LA-Z-Boys, certainly they can do it from their offices if they put a little effort into it. Because by letting the criminals slip through, they’re screwing all veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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