Jim Fausone
\nVeteran Disability Lawyer<\/p>\n
We work with over a 1000 veterans and most of those veterans are waiting on appeals of VA<\/a> decisions.\u00a0 The initial decision backlog at VA is\u00a0 getting a lot of national attention.\u00a0 A hidden story has finally made the national news.\u00a0 That story is how long it takes to have an appeal heard of a VA denial of service connection or low rating by the regional office in an initial decision. So after waiting a year for that initial decision, the veteran can expect a multi year wait on an appeal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the first level, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals<\/a> in Washington, it takes an average of 1,040 days, almost 3 years, \u00a0for the agency to render a ruling. That’s 3\u00bd times slower than the response for those awaiting word on their initial filings.\u00a0 The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently published an article on its study\u00a0 of\u00a0 4 years of (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer We work with over a 1000 veterans and most of those veterans are waiting on appeals of VA decisions.\u00a0 The initial decision backlog at VA is\u00a0 getting a lot of national attention.\u00a0 A hidden story…<\/span><\/p>\n