From Nextgov.com: VA will turn to a contractor to reduce backlog of GI educational benefits

Solicitation is the department's latest effort to process what officials call an unprecedented volume of claims.

The Veterans Affairs Department said it issued a solicitation for temporary contractor support to help process what it called an unprecedented volume of educational benefit claims it has received since the post-9/11 GI bill went into effect.

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