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VA drops Navy Veterans nonprofit from website service group list
* By Jeff Testerman and John Martin St. Petersburg Times *
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has removed the U.S. Navy Veterans Association nonprofit organization from its website listing of veterans service organizations.
The government acted after U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, expressed concerns about “unscrupulous organizations” that might “mislead or exploit our nation’s veterans.”
In a letter Tuesday to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, Webb said “it is disconcerting” to learn that the Navy Veterans group is listed on the VA Web site as a recommended service organization.
Webb, a Marine who served in Vietnam, asked the VA to review its procedures for screening veterans groups in the VA’s directory of veterans service organizations, citing ongoing inquiries into the Navy Veterans “legitimacy, fundraising activities and expenditures on behalf of veterans.”
Read more at St. Petersburg Times
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=32060
Posted by Bob Higgins on May 20 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Vet News, Veterans Affairs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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