The VA Claims Backlog is a Cash Cow that nobody at the top wants to get rid of. I’ve long said that the VA Claims Backlog won’t ever get fixed because there is money in it. If the VA wanted to fix the backlog, it could do it. It’s not a lack of...
The Joint Chiefs were up on the Hill earlier this week, talking to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the huge problem of rape and sexual assault in the military (the DoD and VA have “niced” this up by inventing the term “Military Sexual...
Here we go, folks, another “band-aid” for the broken claims process. We’ve received 2 Ratings Decision last week (May 2013) in which the VA included this new NOD (Notice of Disagreement) Form. I had heard it was coming – Tom Murphy (one of the...
I am trying very hard not to bash the VA. There are some really good people that work there, and many – though not all – try very hard to serve Veterans best interests. Sometimes, though, the VA makes it really hard to be supportive. Take the Draft Gulf...