In Martha's vineyard vacation before the start of a week, U.S. President barack Obama for the tens of thousands of veterans returned to the United States and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to seek help from the government to solve the long-standing problem: medical, disability benefits, as well as other services, because they have a long wait.
The disabled American veterans conference in Orlando, Florida, in a speech on Saturday, Obama said that his government is to reduce the backlog of disability claims of progress, and said the amount of aid request has fallen by nearly one 5, because the load in just a few months ago to more than 600000.
"Today, I can report that we are what we need, but we're making progress," he said. "Therefore, backlog continues to grow for many years, finally shrinking backlog."
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