Update: E-mails one veterans’ advocate, "The repercussions are pretty simple: VA managers can override any benefits decision that they don't want to pay. … Hey, why not confiscate all retroactive benefits from those older than 75 (65?) - they will die soon anyways."

An unofficial and apparently illegal U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy on granting veterans monetary benefits is drawing intense criticism in veteran advocates' and veteran attorneys' circles.

First reported in VA Watchdog by Larry Scott last year, the alleged policy puts a cap, in violation of U.S. Code, on large retroactive monetary sums granted to veterans.

Look here in the near future for updates and reporting on new developments.

Writes Larry Scott: