VA gave 156,000 employees $142 million in bonuses in 2014

The Department of Veterans Affairs VA shelled out more than $142 million in performance bonuses in 2014, the same year that the VA's healthcare scandal exploded and revealed the VA was systematically denying veterans access to health care.
The average individual payout was over $900 for the thousands of employees. A total of 156,000 VA workers qualified for bonuses as a result of being rated them "fully successful" or higher at carrying out their responsibilities last year, including officials at delay-prone hospitals.


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Report: One-third of vets on pending medical care list already dead

An internal Veterans Affairs Department report states that about one-third of the veterans waiting to receive medical care from the agency have already died.

A review of veteran death records provided to the Huffington Post found that, as of April, 847,822 veterans were awaiting healthcare and that of those, 238,647 were already deceased.

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Prayer banned from veterans' funerals

...Arleen Ocasio, director of the Houston National Cemetery, with the approval of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, now bans not only graveside prayer at veterans’ funerals, but also the mere mention of God. A simple, “God bless you” to a grieving widow is verboten.

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