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Extended Interview: Veterans Voice Frustration Over Benefits Backlog

For more on the backlog: http://to.pbs.org/10grP45 Nearly a quarter million veterans wait more than a year for their medical claims to wind through the Veterans Administration (VA) before receiving their earned benefits, according to an investigation conducted by the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). The report, based on the VA's own internal numbers, also shows that almost one million veterans are currently waiting for their benefit claims to be processed and that the wait time has grown 2000 percent in the past four years. Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan talks with three Iraq and Afghanistan veterans -- Rachel McNeill, Aaron Thorson and Zach McIlwain -- affected by the backlog in this extended interview.