On Sunday, SA MP Maliyakhe Shelembe said the failure by the Department of Military Veterans to provide the Military Veterans Appeals Board with adequate resources prevented them to satisfactorily process the appeals lodged by the military veterans.
Some of these benefits include housing, compensation, educational support, facilitation of employment placement, medical support and social relief.
He also said there were delays due to the Military Veterans Appeals Board, which is mandated to review appeals lodged by military veterans on rejected applications for benefits, being not allocated a budget to perform duties during its term. Shelembe said as at June 2020, out of the 463 complaints that were received by the Appeals Board from the military veterans since its inception in 2015, only 160 that have been completed and 303 were still pending due to challenges of the board’s unfunded mandate.
"Her failure to ensure that the Board was equipped to perform its duties led to serious consequences whereby 303 complaints from the military veterans were not expedited."
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