Elizabeth Esty: “They deserve it. All Americans deserve the aid of the Federal Government wherever they live in this great country.”

If they cannot see--the VSOs who are on the front line are unable to see the legacy claims, then we are not really getting the benefit--the promised benefits of this IT innovation.

I want to make sure that VA is using RAMP to inform the new system, and not as a means to disguise a true size of the appeals backlog.

I want to thank the under secretary and his team for staying.

On behalf of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE), and its National VA Council, which represents more than 700,000 federal and D.C. Government Employees...