For six years and two White House administrations the VA's disability claims backlog has continued to grow without the VA resolving the issue.
Based on this, disabled veterans are waiting years for earned and entitled benefits while simultaneously not being able to receive state-level benefits while awaiting federal VA determination actions.
Give the benefit of the doubt to the veteran while the VA continues to not resolve the backlog. Automatically approve all the outstanding claims and appeals where a veteran has waited more than three years since original claim date for the VA to provide final action on a claim or appeal.
Disabled veteran's are being denied due process of an entitlement and continued VA inability to resolve the backlog of claims is a national embarrassment.