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BVA gets 4 more Judges

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VA Press Release in part:

 

WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that President Donald J. Trump recently approved the appointment of four new Veterans Law Judges to VA’s Board of Veterans’ Appeals

Bringing on additional judges means the Board will be better staffed to conduct hearings and decide appeals properly in a timely manner,” said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. “Combined with procedural changes under the Appeals Modernization and Improvement Act of 2017 [AMA] and the hiring of more than 200 additional Board attorneys, this translates into better and faster service for Veterans.” 

 

https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5127

Also, if anyone is interested, VA has fired 1,700 employees since the Acountability Act went into being. I hope that list grows more.

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Well, this sounds like its good, but probably does not go to the heart of the problem:

PREVENTING APPEALS, such as having a good way for Vets to call someone "who actually has authority" to fix our glitches, and not just  10.00 per hour telephone clerk, who says/does pretty much zero except for "giving us a status" report that may or may not be correct.  

ACCOUNTABILITY:  The VA needs to "assign" each Veteran to a team.  The manager then monitors the proguress (like social security) and calls that employee and asks them:

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Gee, I see you have 3 Veterans assigned to you who put in claims 2 years ago..why is this taking so long?  Ditto for appeals.  Did you know it takes the VA MORE THAN a year to do a SOC, and more than 2 years to "certify" the claim to the BVA?  The poor Veteran is stuck in the VARO for 3 years before the claim is even sent to the BVA.  

 

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