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VA Backlog reduced
VAPress Release March 30,2015
In part:
"Washington – The federal initiative to provide timely decisions on disability payments to Veterans has crossed a major milestone in its final sprint to eliminate the backlog of Veterans’ benefits claims.
The major transformation effort to apply new technology and process solutions has paid off at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It reduced its inventory of backlogged claims from a high of 611,000 claims in March of 2013 to fewer than 200,000 this week, while at the same time improving decision quality."
http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2691
I dont think it is due to 'technology ' and processes ,as much as due to the fact that vets have complained to Secretary Bob and to Under Secretary Hickey.
'Backlog 'is an odd word when VA uses it....does it mean RO backlogs have been reduced, by decisions that might well be denials, only to perhaps increase the backlog at the BVA, and adding to the remands, that are often for a re=do of what the RO failed to do in the first place?
And of course there are all those missing claims of Phila VARO....
are they included as 'backllogged' claims
or just stuffed- into- file -cabinets -hoping- to -never -see -light -of- day
claims?
VA semantics are often illusive.
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