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I sent and IRIS inquiry on Tuesday and received this as a response:

We received your apeal on 03-14-05 for the following conditions:

Hypertensive Vascular Disease - Partial Blindness - and Degenerative Arthritis.

Your appeal is with the DRO on the appeals team as of 01-18-07. It is with them to review to see what needs to be done next. We hope to have your finished sometime this Spring. Please check with us againMarch if you haven't heard from us.

Sincerely,

I have no clue about the appeals process. can someone please explain?

Tim

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sounds to me as if they have it sitting on a cart somewhere and they hope to have it rated by May 07, 2 years for a NOD, you might have been better off going for a BVA appeal, hopefully you will get what you wanted by May, if not the next step is appealing it to the BVA

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Huskerfanfl,

I suspect the reason why your DRO review is taking so long is due to your claims for increases and new claim that were submitted after the appeal was. Those will be decided before the appeals will be. When did you file for the increase and the new claim?

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I filed the new claim and for the increases in October. An IRIS inquiry in December and I received this:

You do have an appeal working from early 2005 and the appeals team does have it to work as of 12-04-06. Your reopened claim was received on 10-20-06 and is still waiting to be reviewed. If anything is needed on your most recent claim you will receive a letter. However, your file can only be with one section at a time and it is currently with the appeals team. Multiple claims and issues can slow the processing. Please keep checking about every 30-45 days on the status of your claims, this will help you keep track of what we are working on.

It is just taking them a long time on the appeal

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You're right, that's an awful long time for a DRO review. The longest I've ever seen since they started the DRO process was 14 months, but that was for, I think, six issues. The last time I checked the morning reports, which was awhile ago, the Portland RO was taking the longest and was running over 400 days for appeals. How many issues are pending on appeal? Is the DRO waiting on any outside sources for evidence?

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Vike17:

I made the same mistake, at least I feel it was a mistake of filing 3 new claims a week after I filed an NOD. I should have waited on the NOD decision first. Do you have any idea how long the Detroit RO is taking for appeals and claims?

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