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\u00a0Jim Fausone
\nVeteran Advocate<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki<\/a>, explained this past week that he is committed to ending the backlog of claims by 2015. His plan to do that?\u00a0 Replace paper records with electronic records.<\/p>\n

Right now, VA considers about 600,000 claims, or 70 percent, to be \u201cbacklogged\u201d. These are the number of claims that have been pending for more than 125 days.<\/p>\n

The VA has put in a new computer system in place in about 20 regional offices around the country. The goal is to have the system in all of the regional offices by the end of 2013. Part of the computer system allows all of the veterans\u2019 records to be in electronic form. This will enable workers from anywhere in the nation to view the files and will eliminate the time that it takes to ship the file between regional offices or the Board of Veterans Appeals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate \u00a0The 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?\u00a0 Replace paper records with electronic records. Right now,…<\/span><\/p>\n

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