I got tired of the BS, so I just started notifying my congressional reps. Before Allison Hickey got forced out or whatever, she was a massive help. Everything had been pending 6 years with no movement just sitting in the regular claims process. Once I sent that e-mail and she took a look into it, everything was magically adjudicated in less than a week. I now have all of my claims pending BVA, and some of them were filed back in 2006. If she hadn't intervened, god only knows how long they would have taken on their own.