How does a Government Agency, Especially one so important for those who Actually Serve and Sacrifice for this country, get into this well known now position and equally well known they're being blamed for consistently and not only for this?
Easy, take a responsibility of the people of this country to fully fund this agency, hire representatives to make sure it is, then keep cheering on wars of choice that they support, two together this time and long running as ours was and little done in the earlier years of, and Not Sacrifice nor Demand to, told to go shopping, as to the results of these wars cheered on, not even the costs of the wars off the books for all those first years. Add that to the previous decades of underfunding and thus not building the best agency for care for our veterans which in turn costs much much much more in the constant trying to catch up in all area's needed!
As by the way, many of those same representatives, not doing their jobs, still consistently lay blame on the agency while those they represent seek that and in many cases do same!!
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2012 – Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki says VA is on track toward meeting one of the top priorities he set on arrival at the department three years ago: breaking the back of the disability claims backlog.
VA spent the last two years creating an automated tool to make claims determinations faster and more accurate, he said.
“Our intent is to have no claim over 125 days,” Shinseki told American Forces Press Service. “And every claims decision that we put out the door [will be] at a 98-percent quality mark.”
Toward that end, VA has been testing the new Veterans Benefit Management System in Providence, R.I., and Salt Lake City. Shinseki told Congress last month he believes this technology is helping VA “approach the tipping point in ending the backlog in disability claims.”
He stopped by the Salt Lake City office last week to assess progress there as the department prepares to take the system nationwide beginning this fall. The rollout will begin at 16 regional offices in September, with all 56 VA regional offices to receive it by the end of fiscal 2013, Shinseki said.
This advance is expected to go a long way in helping VA reduce the time veterans must wait for disability claims decisions, the secretary said.
“We know we can do it manually,” Shinseki said. “But we plan to layer this automation tool on top of that, and have the people who did the manual work now armed with an automation tool. I think we will be able to improve our productivity in ways that we will be able to take that backlog down quickly.” read more>>>
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