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Report offers look at why VA claims exploded

September 6, 2014 Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby

America’s population of living veterans fell by almost 5 million, or 17 percent, from 2000 to 2013. So why did the number of veterans drawing disability compensation climb by 55 percent over that period? And why has yearly VA disability payments tripled since 2000 to reach $60 billion in 2014?

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140905/NEWS01/140909700

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