“VA will not be able to continue overtime for claims processors,” she said. Overtime is a key part of VA’s strategy for eliminating the claims backlog by the end of 2015.”
Much of this back log was caused by O’Bummer changing the rules to qualify for PTSD disability. He changed it that you no longer had to be in a combat area. As a result a lot of sexual harassment charges have turned into military PTSD claims!
“He changed it that you no longer had to be in a combat area”.
A stateside cook can burn his hand on the stove now and qualify for PTSD. All he has to do is say he is having nightmares from the burn. And chances are the claim will be approved right away if he says an arab was holding his hand to the stove. It helps being in a combat zone, but absolutely not necessary since the neverending “war on terror” began on 9-11-01. That’s why all members of the military wear those desert cammies, no matter if they are stationed in the Middle East or North Dakota. All the world is a “combat zone”, with a boogie man around every corner and we have to be on the constant lookout for the bad guy. I asked a young airman on an AF base the other day if he ever wore his blues and he looked at me like I was crazy. I asked him what his job was and he said he was a clerk. I thought he was a member of Red Horse from the way he was dressed. Brown, brogan boots, the works.