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by Although the Walter Reed incident over disabled veteran patient care has been stealing the headlines, the Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling even more on the back end. As of 2003, more than 2.3 million veterans were already receiving compensation for disabilities and more than 600,000 new claims are expected from veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in the immediate future. Workloads reported by the VA indicate more than 600,000 claims remain unprocessed with an average wait of six months. Many cases have taken longer than a year to process. Given the current state of enrollment, the government forecasts paying $2.3 billion in compensation payments in 2008. Solutions have varied from denying claims by tightening the definitions of disability to gaining congressional support to boost the budget for VA employees and payouts.
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VA needs to be investigated by outside agency for it's blatant fraud, bigotry, racism in deciding cases. Most corrupt agency in the federal government. continues to hide and coverup widespread wrongdoing in the agency. Pathetic, and disgraceful.
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Filed a VA Claim? by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 23 March 2007
Just curious - how many of you have actually filed a VA disability claim? Mine has been "floating out there somewhere" for over a year now. Yesterday, when I called their 800 number to track down my status and ended up talking to the NY rep (the 800 number locks you into physically where you called from). They couldn't transfer me to the NJ people and no office gives out direct numbers. After repeatedly bothering them, they gave me a number which worked out to someone that never answered their phone. I went to the VA homepage and called the numbers they have listed for NJ facilities. One was no longer in service and the other was answered by a different government agency. The only number that worked was for VA counseling who didn't work claims. But I was able to find a nice gentlemen that "knew a guy" that would look for my claim. All of this follows the hassle I had to go through to get Georgia to release my packet to New Jersey after I'd moved - that took place almost four months after the fact!
So a year later, the best thing I have is "a guy" asking about my claim in proxy.