Two Hundred Eighty Three Days For Claim

[Guest Jim S.]

The latest update on my claim has the phone clerk telling me it will take 283 days from start to finish for my claim to be processed. I guess they have been taking numbers to see how long the average number of claim will take to reach a decision at my local VARO. So if this is correct, then I shouldn't expect anything until May or June of this year. They have everything they need here in town, everything else is a part of my C-File already and the only thing I can think of is a C&P exam and/or IMO of my records. The rest of my medical files are at the VAMC.

So why does it take so long for a claim to be processed? More to the point, why do they keep changing their story when you call, doesn't everyone at the VARO know how to read a computer screen, and if so, why the different story from them week to week?

If they think I am going to stop checking each week, I think they have a lot to learn.

Jim S. :)

[Angela]

Is it possible that the VA is purposefully withholding decisions under the guise of following the General Council guidelines set out in VAOPRCPREC 26-92 that says under COMMENTS, para 6, "in situations where a decision has been appealed, the agency may wish to withhold action in similar cases pending the decision by the United States Court of Appeals." If the VA used this logic for all cases the system would come to a grinding halt - which seems to be what has happened. :)

[Guest Jim S.]

A tid bit from "Knight Ridder"

n addition, the average time to process claims, which the VA had said would drop to 145 days, or 125 days, or even 100 days, is projected to increase this year and next, to more than 180 days.

I guess My local VARO hasn't heard about these numbers, and I am sure they are not proud of their error rate at nearly 50%, making mistakes almost 50% of the time and taking 283 days to process a claim doesn't give my odds of getting SC anytime in the near or forseeable future.

Jim S. :)

[Angela]

Where do you find the VARO's error rates?

[Guest Jim S.]

Where do you find the VARO's error rates?

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington...kages/veterans/

Check out this page and look for the red dot in the state you live in, You may have to move the curser around a bit, but the red dot will soon show you where to clicl your curser.

Jim S. :)