Disability claim dragging on a long time?
You might do better if you moved to S. Dakota or Louisiana, according to an investigative report in "The Bay Citizen."(click here to read the article)
Disabled
troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan face an unexpected battle:
the Department of Veterans Affairs' growing stack of disability
benefit claims, leading to processing delays of six months or more.
In the worst cases, some VA offices - like Los Angeles' - are so far
behind that even if no new claims were filed, it could take almost
three years for the backlog to be cleared.
VA officials attributed
the problem to a flood of wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
coupled with aging Vietnam veterans filing new claims, inundating the
system just as the VA is working to improve it. In the fallout, many
returning vets find themselves blocked from the services and
compensation they need.
Read TheBay Citizen,a part of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, forin-depth coverage.
This map displays 58 VA regional offices andthe number of backlogged claims by week on a national, regional andlocal level. Select a city by clicking on its circle. Thisapplication will update itself every Monday to show each office'schange in pending claims (Click here to see the interactive map)
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