By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jul 26, 2007 11:40:47 EDT
Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson endorses a controversial idea to attack the huge backlog of veterans’ disability claims by automatically approving some claims.
In a Wednesday interview taped for C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program, which will air Sunday, Nicholson said he was willing, on a trial basis, to try to tackle the large and growing backlog of disability claims with a program that would assume anyone who filed for compensation deserves the payment. After the first check is issued, a claim could be reviewed, with the possibility that payments could be adjusted, Nicholson said.
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