Soldier’s widow finally gets benefits from government
Fought with Dept. of Veterans Affairs for 2 years
Miranda Valenti could tell a lot of stories about government bureaucracy. She has experienced it first-hand.
The Bay Ridge woman, who lost her husband John, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, two years ago, waged an ongoing battle with bureaucrats at the US Department of Veterans Affairs to receive her widow’s benefits. Her paperwork kept getting delayed, then lost, then found and delayed again.
Equally frustrating, Valenti said, was that every time got on the phone with the VA, the person at the other end asked her to repeat her and her husband’s vital information as if it was the first time she was calling.