US EditionVA eliminates office helping minority veterans with benefits disparities
- This closure affects efforts to address long-standing racial inequities in the VA, hindering access for minority veterans.
- Rep. Mark Takano criticized the closure as excessive, stating it will have 'disastrous effects on the care we offer veterans.'
- The closure hampers efforts to eliminate racial inequities within the VA, as internal voices noted it also supported veteran cases beyond racial concerns.
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'Dire, wide-reaching and deadly': This veterans disability agency is being 'liquidated'
The Trump administration has shut down a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs created under President Joe Biden to address disparities in how the federal government provides disability compensation to military service members.The closure of the Veterans Benefits Administration’s Office of Equity Assurance effectively hobbles internal efforts at the VA to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities the department itself has ac…
The Office that Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being 'Liquidated'
The Trump administration has shut down a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs created under President Joe Biden to address disparities in how the federal government provides disability compensation to military service members.
The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire, wide-reaching and deadly,” an advocate for Black veterans said.
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