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    Veterans and the VA: Worst Backlog in Washington

    Here's the kind of decision required of the Veterans Administration: is that traumatic brain injury from high school football or a roadside bomb in Iraq? Questions like that are just one reason the VA is so far behind in processing claims.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Here's the kind of decision required of the Veterans Administration: is that traumatic brain injury from high school football or a roadside bomb in Iraq? Questions like that are just one reason the VA is so far behind in processing claims. While President Obama, Mitt Romney and politicians on both sides of the aisle agree that American veterans should get the benefits they deserve, many veterans are frustrated.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      KCRW

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      New York Times

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      Political reporter

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      Veterans for Common Sense

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    Councilman Alarcon to Stand Trial for Perjury, Voter Fraud
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    2. 12:42Taking a Ride Down the LA River
    3. 25:21Veterans and the VA: Worst Backlog in WashingtonYou’re reading this
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