Obtaining benefits through the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has been disproportionately more difficult for Black Americans for decades, a federal lawsuit alleges.
Graeme Sloan / Sipa via AP fileObtaining benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs has been disproportionately more difficult for Black Americans for decades,“The results of VA’s racial discrimination has been to deny countless meritorious applications by Black veterans, depriving them and their families of care and support that their faithful service has earned,” the lawsuit reads.
Monk is far from alone, the filing alleges. According to VA records obtained through Freedom of Information Act litigation brought by the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress, of which Monk is the co-founder and director, and the Black Veterans Project, the average denial rate for disability compensation was 5.3% higher for Black veterans than their white counterparts between 2001 and 2020. And the racial disparity for average acceptance rates was even higher — 6.8%.
“We hope that going forward, there won’t be another generation of veterans who are subjected to the same system,” Henderson said.
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