How Long For Claim?

[Harley-1]

I sent a claim in on a secondary - what is the average wait time on a decision?

[brokensoldier244th]

Honestly? Depending on where your RO is in the country, and how complex your claim is, and how much evidence you submitted-as long as it takes. I'm not being snarky, that's just the facts. You can look up your local RO's caseload by googleing "Monday morning workload reports" and then clicking on the most recent week. This will take you to a spreadsheet. Once there, look at the Aggregate totals tab and find your RO-this will tell you how many other claims and of what type that they have backed up.

CAS

[etcm]

Broken is correct. Be advised though that most of the numbers are not readily usable. My VARO, Indianapolis, has about 73% of the claims "over 125 days" What does that tell you? Over 125 days for sure. Aspire data : (http://www.app.hospitalcompare.va.gov/index.cfm) says Indy has a 246 day average claim time and the inventory of claims at the Indy VARO have an average age of 234 days old. OK that is more. My claim, a "regular" claim that is supposed to be worked in the order received has not even been reviewed to see if it is ready to be rated, is 530+ days old. Whicj means they have a "regular" claim inventory age that could be a LONG wait. My issues are all already service connected (I am asking for increases and correction of a CUE) and C&P exams were complete over a year ago.

So, get your claim in sooner rather than later because the sooner you do, the sooner you should get an adjudication.

[Harley-1]

Honestly? Depending on where your RO is in the country, and how complex your claim is, and how much evidence you submitted-as long as it takes. I'm not being snarky, that's just the facts. You can look up your local RO's caseload by googleing "Monday morning workload reports" and then clicking on the most recent week. This will take you to a spreadsheet. Once there, look at the Aggregate totals tab and find your RO-this will tell you how many other claims and of what type that they have backed up.

CAS

Good to know.

[Harley-1]

Broken is correct. Be advised though that most of the numbers are not readily usable. My VARO, Indianapolis, has about 73% of the claims "over 125 days" What does that tell you? Over 125 days for sure. Aspire data : (http://www.app.hospi...a.gov/index.cfm) says Indy has a 246 day average claim time and the inventory of claims at the Indy VARO have an average age of 234 days old. OK that is more. My claim, a "regular" claim that is supposed to be worked in the order received has not even been reviewed to see if it is ready to be rated, is 530+ days old. Whicj means they have a "regular" claim inventory age that could be a LONG wait. My issues are all already service connected (I am asking for increases and correction of a CUE) and C&P exams were complete over a year ago.

So, get your claim in sooner rather than later because the sooner you do, the sooner you should get an adjudication.

Sounds like a good plan of attack to Me.