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Doug Collins: “Opening up to over 2 million plus hours for new appointment…”

Featuring: Doug Collins, Republican | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | National

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VA Secretary Doug Collins discusses improvements in veteran care, benefits

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

We're doing that taking backlogs of over 125 days of claims, over 260,000 of those, lowering those to 75,000 or less in 77 days to complete, as opposed to 135 days that was taking just a year and a half ago. Opening up to over 2 million plus hours for new appointment times in the evenings and on the weekends. so that our younger veterans in particular can take advantage of the VA services after they get off of work. (01:17–01:24)

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Asserts that the VA has added over 2 million hours for new appointment times during evenings and weekends.

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