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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer The largest group of veterans with claims pending are from the Vietnam era. It has been 40 years since the war ended and the tale of that war, which shows in disability claims, is still lengthening. We can expect that the Iraq/Afghanistan tale to also be 40 years in the making […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer We work with over a 1000 veterans and most of those veterans are waiting on appeals of VA decisions. The initial decision backlog at VA is getting a lot of national attention. A hidden story has finally made the national news. That story is how long it takes to have […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Attorney Ok, you have heard about the backlog of claims at VA. But who is in that clog? Vietnam era veterans account for the largest share of the 865,000 veterans stuck in the clog. They are 37% of the clog according to VA statistics. The post 9-11 wars inAfghanistan andIraq account for 20%. The […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate Disabled vets are still waiting too long for medical benefits. InSeattle,Washington, 25,000 disabled vets are still waiting to receive medical benefits. According to a new report, it could take a year or more for those benefits to be processed. Claims by disabled vets to the Veterans Administration have at least tripled […]
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Claims Processing, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Attorney VA has been under tremendous criticism for the backlog of claims that it has which is approaching 1,000,000 this year. Congress has been holding hearings on how to clear up the backlog. Heads may actually roll at VA over this embarrassment. So VA has to resolve the new claims being […]
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Claims Processing, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, explained this past week that he is committed to ending the backlog of claims by 2015. His plan to do that? Replace paper records with electronic records. Right now, VA considers about 600,000 claims, or 70 percent, to be “backlogged”. These are the number […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate We receive about 300 emails a month asking for help. We try to sort out those VA disability claims where we can really help. The first two rules are you have to have a current disability and then explain how it is service connected. If you just feel entitled or need […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, Mental Health, News and Press, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Attorney One of the saddest situations we help with involves military sexual trauma (MST). The rape of men and women in the military is a black stain on the Defense Department. The VA disability process only makes this stain more stubborn. We have developed an approach that looks at markers that show the MST […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
Jim Fausone, Esq Veteran Disability Attorney So now, the Inspector General reports that VA overpays veterans. Really? Most veterans fight for years to get the compensation correct. The IG looked at a narrow batch of cases where veterans temporarily receive a 100 percent disability rating while undergoing surgery or debilitating treatments and convalescing. Claims examiners allegedly failed […]
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