Bipartisan Push to End Veteran Claim Backlog
The backlog of Veteran Affairs disability claims has risen by more than 2,000 percent during the past four years, while the agency’s budget has been increased by only 40 percent. Now Congress is...
View ArticleFormer VA Secretary Calls for VA Disability Benefits Reform
According to former VA Secretary Anthony J. Principi, the VA backlog of disability claims is in large part due to the more recent policy decisions and laws have burdened the system. Principi argued...
View ArticleVeterans Disability Attorney Comments on Shrinking Disability Benefits Backlog
In an address to disabled veterans, President Obama announced that the backlog of disability claims was shrinking. At the Disabled American Veterans annual meeting earlier this year, Obama stated...
View ArticleIs it the Middle Managers at VA?
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer In most organizations the people at the top get it. The people at the bottom are just doing a job. It is the people in the middle that make or break the team....
View ArticleSo Nothing Got Done This Year
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer When you look at 2013 there was no shortage of issues of interest to veterans. VA operations were often in the news from the backlog on disability claims, the...
View ArticleAnother Stupid Idea by the VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing a major change to the benefits process. Currently, a veteran can send any sort of written note to the VA and it starts a claim or appeal for VA benefits....
View ArticleVeterans going through VA appeals process wait an average of over 900 days
Kristina Derro, Esq. The Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA) “appeals resolution time” shot up to 923 days in fiscal year 2013 – that’s up 37% from 675 in the previous year, according to the...
View ArticleVA Hits Important Benchmark, but Problem Far from Solved
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took a step forward toward alleviating the backlog of disability claims, but that problem is still far from solved. For the first time since February 2011, the...
View ArticleVA Goal to Eliminate Claims Backlog by End of 2015 Appears Out of Reach
Carol Ann Fausone Brigadier General (ret) Positive reports surfaced last year on the significant reduction of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) backlog in benefits claims – VA workers slashed the...
View ArticlePaperless Fix Increases Number of VA Disability Claims on Backlog
Kristina Derro, Esq. The National Work Queue (NWQ) is a paperless workload management initiative designed to improve overall productive capacity and assist with reaching the goals of eliminating...
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