| | The Department of Veterans Affairs improperly denied hundreds of military sexual trauma claims in recent years, leaving potentially thousands of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder without benefits, a VA inspector general investigation found. Last year alone, the investigation found the agency mishandled as many as 1,300 sexual trauma claims. Some 12,000 veterans file for sexual trauma-related PTSD benefits each year. The inspector general found the VA failed to order required medical exams in more than half the cases, didnât obtain necessary records to back up the claims in hundreds of cases or denied claims despite contradictory evidence
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