Veterans' Disability Benefits: Improved Transparency Needed to Facilitate Oversight of VBA's Compensation and Pension Staffing Levels
GAO-06-225T
Published: Nov 03, 2005. Publicly Released: Nov 03, 2005.
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The Chairman, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, asked GAO to submit a statement for the record highlighting findings from an examination of the Veterans Benefit Administration's (VBA) fiscal year 2005 budget justification. In that review, we assessed (1) VBA's determination and justification of claims processing staffing levels, and the role of productivity in such determinations, and (2) VBA's projections of future claims workload and complexity.
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BudgetingClaims processingLabor forcePension claimsPerformance measuresPersonnel managementProductivity in governmentProjectionsStaff utilizationVeterans benefitsVeterans disability compensationVeterans pensionsWork measurementTransparency