VA cuts disability claims backlog to under 100,000

Government Health IT: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said it has trimmed the number of disability claims older than four months to under 100,000 from 611,000 claims in 2013.

The current backlog of 98,535 claims older than 125 days is the lowest since the agency started measuring the claims backlog in 2007, Allison Hickey, the VA's undersecretary for benefits, wrote in a VA blog post.

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