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[QUOTE]Originally posted by IWISHIHAD: [QB] As long as we are on the issue of veterans, i will state a few facts about the VA disability compensation system. I had stated ealier that this bothered me more than this potential law did. The VA disabilty system has a backlog of claims of 400,000 and rising. Some Veterans are losing their homes and living in the streets because of this. Average time to evaluate a claim the first time is about a year sometimes longer. If these claims go beyond the first stage, which many do, the time frame to a final decision on a claim can be 4-7 years. The solution to this problem is not adding more people to the VA as the government would like us to believe. The solution is to hire better people that follow the laws(cfr's) that were set up to judicate a claim. I do not know if the reason for this mess is that we do not have enough money to support these vets, thus making the system so tough that many veterans just give up. Many that give up should have received disability or a higher rating for their disabilty. The laws (cfr's) were set up to give the benefit of the doubt to the veteran if there is one. This does not happen. If a claim is denied or if the disability rating is not agreed on by the vet, then the vet must file a letter of disagreement. The vet under most cicumstances has 60 days from the date of mailing of his decision to do this. Unfortuantly the date of mailing is not necessarily the date the letter was mailed. It can be delayed weeks. Also there is a second part to the law and that states the vet has one year period from his intial claim, but this usually has been eaten up in the backlong process and he gets penelized if his claim goes to the next level. This time period that veterans have to disagree with a claim has other issues. None of these claims are sent registered mail, if a claim does not reach a veteran or is delayed futher the vet loses, that claim is thrown out, and the only choice for the vet is to start over if there is new evidence. A ton of wasted money in this process, if thats what you want to call it. There are no time requiirements or penealties that the VA has, this is a one way street. It also appears that a vet is required to keep records for life, i cannot find any thing that says otherwise, of course if the VA loses your records it is your problem. Thus if the VA decides to re-evalute a claim and a veteran does not have records to support his claim, it can be thrown out or a reverse discision made. This list can go on and on and nothing much favors the vet. I sure hope that someday our politicians will correct this judication system back to where it was intended to be and help support the new wave of veterans that are having to enter into it, but realistically i only see it getting worst. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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