Policy Review: Appeals process for disability claims equals long wait time for veterans
Abstract
Policymakers, advocate groups, and national VA leadership express concerns about the timeliness and quality of the Compensation and Pension (C&P) claims adjudication system. This C & P system is defined as the overarching process the Veterans Benefits Administration uses to review and to adjudicate a veteran’s claim for a service connected disability. For this policy review, we present a summary of the appeals process, a summary of delays, outline some change efforts, and conclude our review with an analysis of a proposal to systematically address and to resolve the appeals backlog, the Fully Developed Appeal.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v2i1.26 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768
Language: English
Page range: 19 - 28
Published on: Apr 5, 2017
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2017 Robert Wayne Casner, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.