New Claims App From Va

[Berta]

http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2634

In part:
"September 24, 2014

New Process Will Reduce Processing Times and Improve Quality

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced that it is introducing a uniformed disability claims form to better serve Veterans, families and survivors. Standardizing the process by which Veterans file claims and initiate appeals will make it easier for Veterans and their survivors to clearly state what benefits they are seeking from VA and provide information that is necessary to process their claims and appeals. The new forms eliminate applicant guesswork, which often leads to delays in decisions and ultimately delays in receiving benefits. The new regulations go into effect in late March 2015.

“We must do everything that we can to make it as fast and easy as possible for Veterans and their survivors to file for and receive an accurate decision on their claim,” said VA Secretary Robert McDonald. “Our Veterans and survivors will know, at the outset of the claims process, what is needed, which removes subjective interpretation from the process. We want to eliminate any barriers that make it difficult for our Veterans or survivors to receive benefits to which they are entitled.”

[Berta]

BTW...the VA link above has some free downloads for viewers which is great!

I had my PC updated recently but the PC man gave me Wordpad and I lost my Microsoft Word...all my files were still there but Wordpad does not always open graphics from M21 pages.

I think they have a freeby for Power Point too and that is also great because I need to prepare a Power Point presentation soon.

My last AMU prof insisted on a Power point homework assignment.I was only civilian in the class but we had open online discussions and many of the enlisted students griped about it.Most of us had never used Power Point before.

But once you learn it, it is so much fun!

Boy , I got a freeby Microsoft Word program from the VA. They had Adobes there too., Excel etc etc....

My PC man said to be very careful of downloading some free programs on the net as many contain viruses.

So far no bad hits on my security stuff.

Edited September 24, 2014 by Berta

[georgiapapa]

Thanks for the info Berta.

[toddt]

Berta:

Apache Open Office is free and does it all. Here is the link: https://www.openoffice.org/download/

[hmcquade]

Thanks for the info!

Hugh

[Notorious Kelly]

Wow, Berta - those forms are fillable and saveable- also has a nice explanation on the application.

I think these should help.

Thanks so much!

[Navy04]

Good to see a tool that is actually out there to help simplify the Claims Process.