(There may be a long pause before the hearings begin so you may use your cursor to get it to the start of both of these)
Ok......here is the law of the jungle and thats the way the cookie crumbles ,,,,,please watch the House Veterans Committee hearing and listen to the 2 hour and 40 Minute mark where the Director of the National Archives and Records , Mr. Bosanko's testimony. HVAC hearings from Dec 6, 2012.
Also please look at the June 19 2012 hearings with Undersecretary Hickey and close attention to the backlog and this paperless myth dream. Also watch Congressman Filners amazement.
Mr. Bosanko testifys that under question from Congressman Filner and others that ........
They have 3000 current employees.
There are about 60 employees that were scanning documents
There are between 600 million and 1 billion pieces of documents for Veterans transfer to "paperless".
The cost has run somewhere between 150 -186 million dollars and something like 10 million dollars for their part.
NARA,,National Archives and Records Administration has current contracts with the DOD.
NARA has an agreement for work with the Veterans Benefits Administration to scan records into VBA and Veterans Benefits Management Services. BUT they will not be under one program but 2 separate ones...one for DOD and one for VA.
General Eric Shenseki has promised to "break the back of the backlog" by 2015.
Now enter the Office of the Inspector General and the "Review of Transition to a Paperless Claims Processing Environment" Report dated just a couple of weeks ago Feb 4 , 2013 is on line at here for our folks to review......
Now if you review this report and the testimony and questions from Congressman Filner on how many Employees would be needed to get the job done by 2015 and Mr. Basankos testimony from the hearing Dec 6, 2012 would be
4000 employees ......4 0 0 0 .....four thousand.... from 60 to 4000...where and how much is this going to cost???
So it means that we are now looking at some real problems
There is no contract or decision by VA to increase personnel,
We cannot get to the 2015 goal according to OIG report.
The DOD records are separate than the new VA records..... 2 different sets of records and more contract problems due when contract expires AGAIN in July 2013.
The pilot programs presently being used to scan to a paperless VA only involve 5 Regional Offices.
The National Archives and Records Admin HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY CLAIMS DECISIONS as the testimony says.
Sooooooooo folks the Veterans Benefits Administration and the Regional Offices will not be online to ALL Regional Offices and will not have the records necessary for a "Paperless" decision from the Regional Offices anytime in the near future...
Soooooooo what does this mean for the backlog???? How can the decision process be made for initial decisions, NODs or Appeals process.......with only a few ROs handling it???
And we have not even had a discussion for the BVA process of the "Paperless" segment of records for their decision reviews by Mrs Hallidays BVA Director of some sort,,, testimony for the California ROs are full of errors.
I can go on but it only makes me sick to my stomach to see this. WIth no answers in sight.
We also now find out that the actual number of claims has dramatically been increased and the backlog is now running from 2-3 years and BVA appeals are 3-5 years....but there are a few ,,,,very few Fully Developed Claims that have been awarded at under 9 months.
We also find out the suicide rate now among our Veterans has jumped from 13 in 2011 and 2012 to .....22 per day..... and that does not count California or Texas which have the 2 largest Veterans Populations. So is there any relationship to the suicide rate and the claims backlog and appeals process????? Without a doubt.
I have been involved with much research and study with VA and claims figures for about 10 years and over 6 years here on Hadit but I have never seen anything so discusting , so frustrating , so broken as the VA, our Veterans care and claims issues as what we as a country and as a group are seeing now. It is the worst since I started tracking and keeping records and dealing with other Vets.
This is going to make all of us that care and to try and get our fellow Veterans help and those coming into the system of this thing we call the VA to realize more than ever that a Veteran can ........NEVER GIVE UP. God Bless, C.C.
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Hello All,
(There may be a long pause before the hearings begin so you may use your cursor to get it to the start of both of these)
Ok......here is the law of the jungle and thats the way the cookie crumbles ,,,,,please watch the House Veterans Committee hearing and listen to the 2 hour and 40 Minute mark where the Director of the National Archives and Records , Mr. Bosanko's testimony. HVAC hearings from Dec 6, 2012.
Also please look at the June 19 2012 hearings with Undersecretary Hickey and close attention to the backlog and this paperless myth dream. Also watch Congressman Filners amazement.
Mr. Bosanko testifys that under question from Congressman Filner and others that ........
They have 3000 current employees.
There are about 60 employees that were scanning documents
There are between 600 million and 1 billion pieces of documents for Veterans transfer to "paperless".
The cost has run somewhere between 150 -186 million dollars and something like 10 million dollars for their part.
NARA,,National Archives and Records Administration has current contracts with the DOD.
NARA has an agreement for work with the Veterans Benefits Administration to scan records into VBA and Veterans Benefits Management Services. BUT they will not be under one program but 2 separate ones...one for DOD and one for VA.
General Eric Shenseki has promised to "break the back of the backlog" by 2015.
Now enter the Office of the Inspector General and the "Review of Transition to a Paperless Claims Processing Environment" Report dated just a couple of weeks ago Feb 4 , 2013 is on line at here for our folks to review......
http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-11-04376-81.pdf
Now if you review this report and the testimony and questions from Congressman Filner on how many Employees would be needed to get the job done by 2015 and Mr. Basankos testimony from the hearing Dec 6, 2012 would be
4000 employees ......4 0 0 0 .....four thousand.... from 60 to 4000...where and how much is this going to cost???
So it means that we are now looking at some real problems
There is no contract or decision by VA to increase personnel,
We cannot get to the 2015 goal according to OIG report.
The DOD records are separate than the new VA records..... 2 different sets of records and more contract problems due when contract expires AGAIN in July 2013.
The pilot programs presently being used to scan to a paperless VA only involve 5 Regional Offices.
The National Archives and Records Admin HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY CLAIMS DECISIONS as the testimony says.
Sooooooooo folks the Veterans Benefits Administration and the Regional Offices will not be online to ALL Regional Offices and will not have the records necessary for a "Paperless" decision from the Regional Offices anytime in the near future...
Soooooooo what does this mean for the backlog???? How can the decision process be made for initial decisions, NODs or Appeals process.......with only a few ROs handling it???
And we have not even had a discussion for the BVA process of the "Paperless" segment of records for their decision reviews by Mrs Hallidays BVA Director of some sort,,, testimony for the California ROs are full of errors.
I can go on but it only makes me sick to my stomach to see this. WIth no answers in sight.
We also now find out that the actual number of claims has dramatically been increased and the backlog is now running from 2-3 years and BVA appeals are 3-5 years....but there are a few ,,,,very few Fully Developed Claims that have been awarded at under 9 months.
We also find out the suicide rate now among our Veterans has jumped from 13 in 2011 and 2012 to .....22 per day..... and that does not count California or Texas which have the 2 largest Veterans Populations. So is there any relationship to the suicide rate and the claims backlog and appeals process????? Without a doubt.
http://www.va.gov/opa/docs/Suicide-Data-Report-2012-final.pdf
I have been involved with much research and study with VA and claims figures for about 10 years and over 6 years here on Hadit but I have never seen anything so discusting , so frustrating , so broken as the VA, our Veterans care and claims issues as what we as a country and as a group are seeing now. It is the worst since I started tracking and keeping records and dealing with other Vets.
This is going to make all of us that care and to try and get our fellow Veterans help and those coming into the system of this thing we call the VA to realize more than ever that a Veteran can ........NEVER GIVE UP. God Bless, C.C.
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