23 Percent Of Va Claims Processed Incorrectly

[jbasser]

I just bumped into this article. On behalf of our friends over at Military.com.

Link: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/05/va-audit-23-percent-of-disability-claims-incorrectly-processed/#idc-cover

Basser

[Commander Bob]

Yeah...try to not claim 80 things at once, ...

Thanks for your participation,'Veldrina'.

Cmdr. Bob

Edited June 10, 2011 by Commander Bob

[retiredat44]

I havea frakkin genious idea for how to get the work load moving and keep it moving..

how about when a vet files a claim, they actually can speak to a 'live' claims person (if they choose) when they turn a claim in, so that any possible misunderstanding are cleared up immediately, witin a few days. Why did it take 3 frakkin years to get a hearing to get a -face-2-face with someone to clear up things that should have been clear from day one! That is the frakkin problem!

Instead the system is setup so they get denied 20 times before they have a face-3-face. At a face meeting the claims wizards can tell the claimant there is a need to be clear on some point(s). Right now the claims people refuse to let records be set stright, they just love to use rubber 'No'stamps, because if they didn't love to say no they would actually give the Vet a chance to make their case clear from the get-go.

Please... stop this BS way of business, let the face-2-face happen when they turn in the claim. It doesn't have to be with the head person, just with a claims person who is intelligent and caring. Not someone who doesn't care and is clueless. So to be harsh, but I get the sense of a nastiness hidden on the invisible hidden side of the process.

Also, the claims people need to have acess to books that show complete job descriptions. Can't they use the materials the recruiers use? isn't there a jobs list with descriptions. The people who handled my claim were clueless on my jobs. They had no clue.. and based lousy decisions on ignorance and lack of knowledge on my jobs. Which were cleared up 3 years later at the DRO hearing. And, yes, they had all the info on paper, but apparently they refused to read it thoroughly.

Like soemone in these forums said, I had to take them by the hand and explain stuff to them like they were children.

They are working with some very sick vets and need to stop making sick vets sicker. like the drill sargeant used to say, 'someone is ate-up with the dumbass...'

[john999]

I have never had a decision that did not contain mistakes and errors. Even the claims I have won contained errors.

[Pete53]

Most of the employees at VARO are afraid of Veterans especially ones who they have not treated very well

[Papa]

There are a lot of posts here showing all the mistakes that the VA has made on our claims, but I was wondering how many have we, the Vet, has made. For instance, I filed a claim through the American Legion for nervousness and for emotional issues. Claimed was denied, and the AL said that was that. This was in 1973. No request for an exam, nothing. Makes me wonder how many years that I suffered from Parkinson's Disease and PTSD, but was so young and stupid, and bitter that I did not want anything to do with the VA or any Veteran's group.

Boots

[john999]

Boots

Many of us were the same way. I know I was. I filed a claim in 1972 and was granted a low ball rating in 1973. I did not appeal. I never went back for 20 years. I found out later the VA had really screwed up my rating. Now I am fighting for a correct rating dating back to that time, but it ain't easy. I still blame the VA because they did nothing to help me, and went out of their way to hurt my claim. I was 21 years old and believed that somehow I would get a fair shake. If you are an emotionally ill veteran unless you have great representation the VA takes advantage of that to deny or low ball you. I did not even get my appeal rights. My rating was two pages long with just some letters and a rating at the end of it for 10% and I could not even work, so don't blame yourself.