I think there’s a news piece from Jan/Feb time-period, which discusses the fact that they had to hire 61 more employees at DFAS to handle certain types of retirement...backlog was existing....roughly 40,000 folks were in some type of 30-day-plus situation.
I generally think this occurs every five to eight years....maybe intentionally....to trigger someone into hiring more employees. The fact that everything is digitized and done via computers now....we should be requiring half the number of employees that existed in 1990, and it’s simply not that way. A guy ought to be able to review the case file of an applicant in twelve minutes and make a decision....either he’s qualified or he’s got issues and hand it off to someone to do a one-on-one analysis with the records.
I would expect that he got all back pay in his first check...
Mine started on time last year, but I had to do a lot of followup after my paperwork was purported to be missing. I sure am glad I joined the Guard after my six years of active duty was up. That extra retirement check makes a big difference.
Try waiting three to five YEARS (or more) for a V.A. decision.
It’s been like that for several years now.