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What does it mean when the VA says "A decision will be made as expeditiously as possible."? Can anyone tell me the VA's definition of expeditiously?

I got a letter today stating that "Your calaim is currently under review by the rating board, and we are awaiting a decision. A decision will be made as expeditiously as possible."

I already knew it is with the rating board, it's been there since Feb 7, 2007. Why are they wasting time telling me what I already know? When they should be spending that time getting a decision made.

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I have been dealing with them since 2000 and you are so right, they are incompetent, they are liars, and they don't give a care about veterans. I did an IRIS ON THE STATUS OF MY CLAIM and they sent me a response that was totally different from what they told me a week prior. So I contacted Senator Sessions offfice to look into the status of my claim, they told the Senator's office something totally different from what they told me. Frustrated I did another IRIS and got a different response from the response they gave the Senator's office, I printed the IRIS response and faxed it to the Senator's office with a message as to who are they lying to me or you. The Senator's office contacted the VA and the VA said the information they gave the Senator's office was the correct information, so I call the VA the next day and requested the status of my claim and was told again something different. I contacted the Senator's office and they responded later that day and told me if I don't get a copy of my decision on the 23 of this month to let them know and they will request a copy and send it to me. However, I will not be holding my breath for that decision!

Jay I noticed from your profile that you have to deal with the Montgomery VARO. Their definition of expeditiously is sometimes in the far, far future. I have dealt with them for over 7 years now and I am still looking for one of them that can read, speak and write. A one word summary for them would be "incompentent". As for the letters, I finally sent then a letter and told them to quit wasting their time, my time and all of Alabama veteran's time by sending out such nonsense. That was two years ago and I have not seen one since then (guess they took me off their spam list for snail mail). Up until that point I had received one about every 60 days. The problem I have with such letters they are simply stated by you generic pieces of crap that does not do anyone any good to include the VA. As you said they need to concentrate on training their personnel and processing claims. Some may not think that this is such a big deal but if you count all of the man hours and funds spent (paper, ink mailing cost etc....) it becomes a big deal. Lets see, 600,000 claims pending, 90 percent of them will be pending over 2 years..... Wow thats a lot of wasted manhours and money spent if they do in fact send out one of them buggers every 60 days.
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Naw, Gulls and Bouys, you DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

Each VA employees' desk comes equipped with a BRAND NEW Ouija Board.

All you gotta do to play, is give them a call.

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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