Promulgation

[Pitman87]

Bva granted awards on May 8,2018 still waiting on rating letter and retro,does anyone knows what promulgation means?

[Sgt. Wilky]

Promulgation is the formal proclamation or declaration that a new statutory or administrative law is enacted after its final approval.

Promulgate means to put into action or force.

Basically, it's to make it offical.

 

Sgt. Wilky

[broncovet]

Yes.  Its what Sgt. Wilky said.  A board decision has to be "implemented" by the VARO.  That means a new decision.  Its supposed to be expiditious.  However, VA gets to define the term "expiditious" because of the Chevron/Auer defense, where an Agency interpretion trumps the "benefit of the doubt".  However, the US Supreme court has agreed to hear Kizor, which could change this in a few months.  

So, VA defines "expiditious" to mean:

     "Whenever the VA gets around to it, at VA convience.  It could mean a week, it could be 5 years or more.  I once waited 3 years for VA to fully implement a Board "expiditious" decision.  At present, we have no recourse, VA takes as long as they want to process every claim.