By Patricia Kime
The Veterans Affairs Department’s system for verifying whether a veteran is alive or dead contributes to costly or embarrassing errors, including compensation being paid to veterans who have passed away and records indicating they had visited doctors after they died, according to an internal VA report.
The report, a review of the VA’s death records sources, found the department’s medical records system lists as active patients 2.7 million veterans who are, in fact, dead.
But the VA can’t expunge them from their rolls because the death notices came from sources such as the Social Security Administration, Medicare, the Defense Department and other government entities that the VA does not accept as proof of death.
The VA accepts only actual death certificates, a record of a death at a VA facility or a 
notification from the National Cemetery Administration as sufficient verification to remove a veteran from the system, according to department officials.
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