Suspending "CASH FLOW" is a common business practice. Evidently, that practice has hit the VA benefit payments.

A couple of years ago, Ford Motor suspended production because their inventory was too high. For those weeks the employees did not collect their pay, they obtained unemployment as a planned layoff. So, while inventory was reduced during those weeks, expenses based on employee pay was suspended as well. 

Suspending "Cash Flow" is common in business. I sincerely believe the "computer glitch" is less the issue so much as interrupting cash flow. I thought that at the beginning of the end of VA Benefit payments, but, this computer glitch to deny back payments confirms it. There are ways for the federal government to issue those back payments without a legislative fix IF the monies sincerely exist, which I believe they don't. The question is WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY?

Trump is running into enormous deficits in his administration. Why?

November 28, 2018
By Phil McCausland

For weeks, (click here) student veterans across the country have raised an alarm about delayed or incorrect GI Bill benefit payments, which the Department of Veterans Affairs has blamed on computer issues.

But on Wednesday, the department told congressional staffers that it would not reimburse those veterans who were paid less than they were owed, two committee aides told NBC News.

The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee earlier this month that it would reimburse those veterans who received less than the full amount they were due.

According to the aides, however, the VA said it could not make retroactive payments without auditing its previous education claims, which it said would delay future claims. The aides asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly....