Friday, February 14, 2014

Veteran's Website isn't much better than the Obamacare site

The glitches and other problems with the ObamaCare website that sparked a national firestorm are similar to those military veterans using the federal government’s online benefits system have routinely faced for about the past 18 months. 
Eric Jenkins, a veteran and American Federation of Government Employees representative, recently told Congress that during January the Veterans Benefits Management System crashed about once a week with downtimes ranging from one hour to multiple days.
'Stop Waiting' ...if the Feds could get their act together
these vets WOULD'NT HAVE TO.
“The constant … technical issues and frequent shutdowns make it difficult for me and others to serve veterans,” Jenkins told a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee. 
The $537 million system went online in fall 2012 at a Department of Veterans Affairs office in New England and is now in all 56 regional offices.
The change to a paperless system was a major part of the Veterans Affairs' goal of eliminating a massive backlog of compensation claims by 2015, with 98 percent accuracy.
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