WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)-member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC)-today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) shamefully circumvented the normal rulemaking process and implemented without public comment a new interim final rule that puts millions of Veterans' disability ratings and care at risk, shockingly disincentivizing our nation's heroes from both seeking earned coverage for service-connected disabilities and following recommended treatments. The new interim final rule changes the way the VA determines disability rating from measuring the disability itself to measuri...