The Department of Veterans Affairs has routinely discriminated against black veterans since World War II while approving disability claims for white applicants at a greater rate, which leads to benefits such as housing and education assistance, a lawsuit says.
Vietnam War veteran Conley Monk Jr. filed the case Monday, which gives a historical analysis showing black applicants were rejected 30% of the time compared to whites at 24% from 2002 to 2020. Monk said he saw this firsthand as he was unable to get disability assistance, the Washington Post reported.
The statistics were obtained from the VA, which only dates back to 2002 because earlier records were not kept. In 2017, an effort was made to look at the link between race and post-traumatic stress disorder claims, but the VA never followed through with the study. VA benefits for home loans and college assistance date back to a GI Bill law in 1944, which helped create America’s great middle class and economic boom. For the black families that did receive benefits, the end result was not as great a success, a 2022 Brandeis University study found.“Black veterans approved by the VA who attempted to use their benefits faced a society openly hostile to their success,” the study said.
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