VA Backlog as of September 22, 2014
• 259,889 – The number of claims over 125 days being processed by VA. That’s less than half of what the numbers were one year ago.
• 534,365 – The total inventory of backlog claims; three years ago, the backlog was on pace to break one million.
• 5,344 – The number of cases going out-the-door each day. That ‘production’ number fluctuates
from as low as 4,500 to as high as 7,000 cases per day.
This report was from the VBA last week and only covers new claims that have never been decided. If you have ever filed an appeal, you are not in the above group. What it fails to mention is that by eliminating the backlog of new claims appeals are becoming more backlogged. In Baltimore it takes 617 to have a notice of disagreement worked on, which is only the first step in an appeal to the BVA.

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- Posted on 04/08/2014 Board of Veterans' Appeals on pace to decide 48,000 cases in 2014
- Posted on 04/08/2014 Number of BVA Decisions expected to hit 48,000 for 2014
- Posted on 03/24/2014 VA Plan to Transform the Appeals Process: Va proposes to shorten the time it takes to appeal decisions to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (currently three years) by gutting veterans rights.