500K Veterans Embroiled in VA Claims Backlog

Proper now over 500ok Vets are embroiled in a VA claims backlog. 100ok of these Vets are simply ready on a score choice. The opposite 400ok Vets are ready on the VA appeals course of. With a 2017 price range anticipated to be 184 Billion you’d assume the VA may get this proper. If the DOD offers details about all the claims course of from entrance to again to retiring and separating navy Veterans they’ll know how you can navigate the claims course of. If the VA has the data at each workplace throughout the nation, Vets will have the ability to get their claims filed shortly and selections made quicker. One thing have to be executed and this story must be instructed for these virtually half of one million Vets log jammed within the system. There’s hope and during the last 5 years the VA has decreased the variety of claims backlogged within the claims course of. So, it may be executed. Nonetheless, it could be good to see the claims backlog sitting at zero.

In 2007, I retired after 20 years within the Air Power. I’m an Iraq Conflict Veteran and Bronze Star Medal recipient. After I exited navy service my commander instructed me to make a replica of my navy well being information and take them to the VA. I did this and waited eight months for a score choice. I figured this wasn’t an abnormally very long time since there have been tons of of 1000’s of Vets within the system. In 2010, I had a extreme bout of PTSD. I used to be hospitalized within the Baltimore VA medical heart. Upon launch I used to be knowledgeable to make copies of my well being information and file a declare for the PTSD. So I did. One 12 months handed and I started making cellphone calls however could not get a solution to the place the declare was within the course of. Two years handed and now I used to be pissed off. Three years handed and I used to be offended. I reached out to a reporter with the Baltimore Solar and my story concerning the VA claims backlog and my ordeal over a 3 12 months interval went nationwide information. I spent an excessive amount of time studying the method inside and outside. I discovered virtually instantly that I hadn’t adopted the VA standards to submit a VA declare accurately. The VA must course of a Absolutely Developed Declare (FDC) to ensure that it to fly via the VA claims course of. FDCs traditionally take shorter intervals of time to determine then claims that don’t submit all the mandatory info. I consider this info needs to be supplied to Vets to allow them to totally perceive the claims course of and what they should present the VA to submit a Absolutely Developed Declare (FDC).