According to a report from McClatchy Newspapers, “Processing time for disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs worsened in a majority of its regional offices last year, and the VA has struggled with its much-anticipated plan to correct those problems.”
McClatchy also reports, “Between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2012, the time it took to complete the average claim rose from 188 days to 262 days.”
Shameful.
The Department of Veterans Affairs in Montana (Fort Harrison) was chosen (with much fanfare) to take part in this new “paperless” way of reviewing disability claims. So far it looks like a failure. The Inspector General of the VA reported that the “VA will continue to face challenges in meeting its goal of eliminating the backlog of disability claims processing by 2015.”
The Western Word 