{"id":61453,"date":"2015-08-18T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61453"},"modified":"2015-08-18T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:40:41","slug":"la-va-caught-shredding-vets-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61453","title":{"rendered":"LA VA caught shredding vets&#8217; letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/va-caught-sending-veterans-mail-to-the-shredder\/article\/2570354\">The Washington Examiner <\/a>reports that the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department&#8217;s Office of the Inspector General conducted a no-notice inspection of a Los Angeles office and discovered letters from veterans which were scheduled for the shredder, but they hadn&#8217;t been opened or read. Eight of the nine would have had an impact on those veterans&#8217; claims;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Of the nine claims-related documents, five did not have required initials of both the employee and supervisor and the remaining four had only the employee&#8217;s initials,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;If &#8230; staff and their supervisors followed VBA policy, these nine claims-related documents would not have been placed in personal shred bins that are designated for non-claims related documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said if the OIG had not stepped in, &#8220;it is likely that. &#8230; staff would have inappropriately destroyed the nine claims-related documents we found.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The office couldn&#8217;t provide to the OIG a record of the documents that they had shredded over the past few years. Well, at least the VA has found a way to do away with the backlog of claims like they promised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner reports that the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department&#8217;s Office of the Inspector General conducted a &hellip; <a title=\"LA VA caught shredding vets&#8217; letters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61453\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LA VA caught shredding vets&#8217; letters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}