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A new congressional report concludes that at least 28,283 disabled retirees were denied retroactive pay awards during a time when rushed efforts to clear a huge backlog of claims led program administrators to stop doing quality-assurance checks on the claims decisions.
And of the original 133,057 potentially eligible veterans, 8,763 died before their cases could be reviewed for retroactive payments, according to the report by the majority staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform domestic policy subcommittee.
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