Elizabeth Esty: “We know that we need to do right by our veterans. Too many of our veterans are unemployed.”

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...

I am happy to welcome everyone here today as we enter the home stretch on the implementation of the Appeals Modernization Act.

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 hope we can take the lessons that are being learned there and make sure that those are used every time with forward-going programs.