Why Does My VA Disability Claim Take So Long?

I always tell my Veteran clients to expect long delays by the Veterans Administration in their attempts to get VA disability benefits. It is a shame that I spend more time talking about the fact that there will be extraordinarily long delays by the VA in processing and deciding the claim than I do in talking about their actual disability claim itself! In order to further explain to my own veteran clients that there will be long delays, I ask them to read the blog posts that I have written previously about this topic.

In addition to any discussion about VA delays with my Veteran clients regarding their disability claims, I like to tell this story with pictures and video.

Here are pictures, as taken by the VA Inspector General, of VA claims files sitting in the Winston-Salem Regional Office.