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The
Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission is already being called the
Commission From Hell by many veterans.
The VDBC was
created as part of
Public Law 108-136.
The Charter
of the VDBC can be
found here. The most frightening statement in the Charter
is that the VDBC is to determine "whether a veteran's disability
or death should be compensated."
As
you can see from the above quote, the VDBC will be rewriting the
book on VA benefits.
Those who
support the work of the VDBC, such as Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN),
Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, are pushing
for this complete rewriting of VA benefits.
And, the
VDBC is a stacked deck. There are 13 Commission members:
two appointed by each side of the Senate and House, and then the
remaining FIVE appointed by President George W. Bush. This
does not bode well for veterans. For more see this
Military.com article on the VDBC.
For more
information...use the site search tool on the left and type in "VDBC" and you'll get all
listings on the site.
The power of
the VDBC cannot be underestimated. They hold the lives of
millions of veterans in their hands.
I will be
writing more about the VDBC as their work progresses.
Here is the
link to the VDBC Home Page. You will find other pages providing
information on the individual meetings of the VDBC and also many
documents in MS Word, MS PowerPoint and PDF formats.
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The VDBC's
final report was issued on October 3, 2007.
Here is a
link to that report...
http://www.vetscommission.org/
pdf/eReport_prepub_9-27.pdf
Here is a
link to the executive summary of the report...
http://www.vetscommission.org/pdf/ExecutiveSummary_eV_9-27.pdf
Commentary
on the report is here...
http://www.vawatchdog.org/
07/nf07/nfOCT07/nf100507-1.htm
For more
about the Vets' Commission, use the VA Watchdog search
engine...click here...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/sessearch.php?q=veterans
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