{"id":150422,"date":"2023-12-03T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150422"},"modified":"2023-12-02T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:38:09","slug":"employees-with-the-va-facing-additional-mandatory-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150422","title":{"rendered":"Employees with the VA facing additional mandatory overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Be-patient-I-will-get-to-your-claim-sometime-next-decade-messy-desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140745 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Be-patient-I-will-get-to-your-claim-sometime-next-decade-messy-desk-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Be-patient-I-will-get-to-your-claim-sometime-next-decade-messy-desk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Be-patient-I-will-get-to-your-claim-sometime-next-decade-messy-desk-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Be-patient-I-will-get-to-your-claim-sometime-next-decade-messy-desk-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Be-patient-I-will-get-to-your-claim-sometime-next-decade-messy-desk.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The passage of the PACT Act opened the door for veterans to file additional claims, or for veterans to file claims for the first time. The number of claims submitted to the VA exceeded what the VA normally receives. Over the past 13 months, the VA saw over 750,000 new claims.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From the Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Much of that increased workload are new military toxic exposure claims filed through the the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act &#8212; better known as the PACT Act &#8212; signed into law in August 2022. More than 750,000 new claims on that topic have been filed in the last 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the number of backlogged claims &#8212; cases taking more than 120 days to complete &#8212; has risen steadily in recent months, to more than 319,000 this week, VA officials said. Clark said that figure is expected to rise &#8220;between 450,000 and 700,000 next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The previous high in backlogged claims was set in 2013, when the overdue caseload reached 611,00 after a flood of claims from Vietnam veterans for illnesses related to Agent Orange exposure. It also prompted intense scrutiny from Congress and forced an overhaul of benefits processes, including digitizing the department&#8217;s records system.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said he expects the backlog to be under control again sometime in 2025. But that will likely require keeping up the agency&#8217;s current processing pace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/management\/pay-benefits\/2023\/11\/30\/va-workers-face-more-mandatory-overtime-amid-record-claims-processing\/\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passage of the PACT Act opened the door for veterans to file additional claims, or &hellip; <a title=\"Employees with the VA facing additional mandatory overtime\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150422\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Employees with the VA facing additional mandatory overtime<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,226,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-in-the-news","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}