Va Raters To Work Manditory Overtime On Claims Till Sept 30Th

[manning01]

Check this article out. Glad to see they are making them work more hours to work on our claims that have been sitting around collecting dust. Whether they accomplish anything more from this OT remains to be seen along with these so called provisional claims. At the same time as a DOD employee I'll be taking 11 days of furlough time off without pay starting in July till Sept while they do all this extra OT to make them look like they saved the day for us vets.

http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2444

http://www.stripes.com/news/va-workers-told-to-work-overtime-to-clear-claims-backlog-1.221099

[bhoward422]

oh carlie, u don't even wanna KNOW what they have us doing now....I think i told u i've been punted into a brokering team for san diego? Well at first i thought i'd be rating those cases....u know, the thing i'm trained for? Noooooo...now we are simply reviewing the, & developing (which i havent really done in 5-6 yrs) and they're being sent down to the teams to rate,,,,wth??? i just never know whee these bright ideas come from ...but they are definitely from ppl way up in the chain who have NO CONCEPT of what the job entails.....i wanna crawl into a hole & hide somedays.

So more denial ha!

[screamingeagleada]

The people at the VA will move faster. It just means they will make more mistakes and deny more claims and say "we are getting rid of the backlog".

[carlie]

oh carlie, u don't even wanna KNOW what they have us doing now....I think i told u i've been punted into a brokering team for san diego? Well at first i thought i'd be rating those cases....u know, the thing i'm trained for? Noooooo...now we are simply reviewing the, & developing (which i havent really done in 5-6 yrs) and they're being sent down to the teams to rate,,,,wth??? i just never know whee these bright ideas come from ...but they are definitely from ppl way up in the chain who have NO CONCEPT of what the job entails.....i wanna crawl into a hole & hide somedays.

I feel your pain - it would help if these decisions on what you need to be working on

would come from lower levels, that have a better understanding.

JMHO