VA Caught Sending Veterans’ Mail to Shredder

By Published on August 19, 2015

The government watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs reported Monday that it was able to substantiate claims that the VA’s Los Angeles office was sending mail from veterans to the shredder.

The VA’s Office of Inspector General said it launched an “unannounced inspection” of the Los Angeles office after hearing allegations that the VA staff there was shredding mail related to veterans’ disability compensation claims. Though the OIG said it can’t measure how often this might have happened, it did say it found some examples of mail lined up for the shredder that instead should have been opened and read.

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