The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating an equity task force to ensure minority and underserved veteran populations have equal access to VA health care and benefits.

VA Secretary Denis McDonough told reporters Thursday that the agency has been “wrestling with disparities based on race in VA benefits decisions and military discharge status.”…

The equity task force is tasked with making recommendations to VA in terms of changes to its organizational structure, training, quality control and outreach, as well as other criteria.

The equity task force is the VA’s latest response to media reports and a federal lawsuit that claim racial disparities in VA benefits claims decisions across several decades… Read the full article here.