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REVIEW OF EVIDENCE Compensation

Evidence Requested is Past Due

Development Letter Sent FOR 3 WEEK NOW

Degenerative changes of the PIP joints second and 3rd MCP
joints.

There is deformity of the 5th metacarpal. Appearance consistent
with remote trauma

XR. left wrist and left hand.

was 6/20/11 to 5/13/13 now 6/13/13 to 5/4/14

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Unfortunately, the VA is almost always "late". Just because ebenefits says your completion date was May 13, now they made it another year wait.

This is par for the course in the way they treat Vets. I bet VA employees dont get delayed a year on their paycheck, and Vets served as well or better than

VA employees. They treat Vets like dirt.

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The VA takes care of millions of vets with hundreds of thousands of back logged claims. They don't treat vets like dirt. Stop being a big grump.

Waltbarb you might get more info by calling the 1-800 #. My claim did the same thing as yours when they approved one contention but inferred IU. So the claim went back to Review of evidence but it was actually approved and being mailed out to me.

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There are 247,000 VA employees, and the VA manages to find the time to get THEIR paychecks, ontime and correct, in less than 30 days after employment. And VA exec bonuses are never late. But Vets??? Oh its glitch after glitch..by the millions. If you lost your home waiting on the VA (like I did) to pay you, while VA execs collect huge bonuses for great service to Vets, then maybe you would "get it". Dont tell me the VA delaying claims for 10 years or more is not treating Vets like dirt. JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED.

19,500 Vets will die before their claim is processed. How many VA employees will die before they get their first paycheck????

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https://www.baycitizen.org/news/veterans/number-veterans-who-die-waiting-benefits/

THESE 19,500 Vets will get "dirt" put over their faces before they get paid. That's treating them like DIRT.

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The VA doesn't intentionally delay claims though. You make it sound like they are out to make our lives hard or something. They process as fast as they can so they can move on to the next one. When you're speaking about numbers like millions and hundreds of thousands then of course there will be countless examples where people get screwed over. The government is pouring money into the system we should be glad to live in a country that does such.

If a claim is delayed over 10 years it means you have a very weak case for compensation. My claim took 4 months because the evidence was obvious and straight forward. The system works it just has a to filter out fraud and rightly so.

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