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By James Dao, New York Times, May 18/19,2013
[....] As of Monday, just under 600,000 claims qualified as backlogged, meaning they had been pending for over 125 days.
Though the numbers have grown, delays in processing disability claims are nothing new, and neither are complaints about the backlog. Just last year, some veterans advocates tried to make the backlog a presidential campaign issue. They failed. But this year, something changed: the criticism grew louder and perhaps more partisan, and began reaching a wider audience.
A new conservative-leaning nonprofit organization, Concerned Veterans for America, produced the Web video calling for Mr. Shinseki’s resignation and is sponsoring a similar online petition, which has been signed by more than 9,000 people. Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and Marine Corps veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has joined the call.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the largest organization representing the new generation of veterans, has also made the backlog the focus of aggressive lobbying in Washington, writing a letter signed by 67 senators that urges Mr. Obama to “take direct action” to resolve the problem. The group has stopped short, however, of calling for Mr. Shinseki’s resignation.
And perhaps most embarrassing for the administration, the backlog has become a repeated topic of outraged ridicule on “The Daily Show,” on which the host, Jon Stewart, has skewered the paper-choked bureaucracy in a series titled “The Red Tape Diaries.”[....]
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by artappraiser on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:58am