DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Should Veterans Have To Wait So Long For Disability Claims?
Some veterans are waiting 400 days to have their disability claims processed as they muster out of the Defense Department. In some cases, their lives are on hold while they wait for their status to change from soldier to veteran. At issue is the Integrated Disability Evaluation System. It started as a pilot in 2007, and now is in place at 80 military locations. It's designed to speed up disability processing by consolidating DOD and VA processes. But the system is meeting its nine-month goal for only 15 percent of active-duty cases. That's according to documents obtained by the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee and shared with The Associated Press.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
1, 2, 3 what are we fightin' for? Don't ask me, I don't give damn, I'm headed to Afghanistan. Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box (apologies to Country Joe & the Fish)....Fight for freedom!! But don't get hurt doing it, cause we will jack you around like you're a crackhead looking for unemployment (although THAT might get you a check quicker). All the new government employees on the books and THIS is the best we can do for the men and women who do what so many of us refuse to do? My bad---- "all those gov't employees also include 16,000 new IRS agents...they have to make sure those veterans are paying all they owe.....
Yet someone who has never fought for this country can get a welfare check in a week. How absurd is that? Saw a woman in the SS office filing for disability and looked in better health than me. Made me want to file for disability too.
Been waiting for atleast a year here to hear about mine...
I filed a disability claim with the VA in December of 2009 and it has just now reached the 2nd phase out of 4. And yes I did say 2009, not 2010!!!
Hell no! Give it to them as soon as they apply.
Post a Comment