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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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FatRump's appointment of obviously unqualified Mar a Lago FatRumpLickers is screwing veterans

Veterans aren't getting GI Bill payments because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke

The problems began this summer when VA's benefit processing system buckled under complex new formulas for GI Bill students. As a result, scores of veterans waited weeks or months to be paid, and have fallen victim to the agency's decades-old technology that advocates and lawmakers have warned for months would do precisely what it did — fail.

Now some veterans are still struggling to overcome financial straits after they took out loans or put expenses on credit cards. And advocates are concerned veterans are taking on financial burdens on top of other challenges, such as mental health and balancing school with family.

And there is concern VA won't have the problems straightened out ahead of the spring semester, either.

Many veterans still haven't received payments. Others, like Gorman, have been underpaid. He was set to receive $631 a month while studying full-time. Just $269 arrived Nov. 1 — a hard hit in New York City, given that his course load and unpaid internship make it difficult to work even part time.

"This is — to be kind — a train wreck," said Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, which held a hearing on the problem Thursday. "This discussion started over a year ago."
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