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When it comes to retirement planning, the process should be simple. This helps protect veterans who may have issues dealing with retirement planning. If you are a veteran who is seeking any sort of disability compensation, or you are looking to start an estate planning process, give the law offices of Retirement Planning Attorney Patricia Bloom-McDonald a call.
The current process for veterans who are applying for disability compensation can actually cause a delay in veterans receiving benefits. The claim is that because there are so many ways in which a disability request for a veteran can be sent in, their ability to administer the benefits to those who need them is hampered. Currently, there is a backlog of approximately four hundred thousand veterans who will have a wait time of about one hundred and twenty-five days before they are given a decision on their disability claims.
The Veteran’s Administration has proposed a solution to the backlog of applications for veteran’s benefits. The proposed ruling is that veterans be required to use a standard form when applying for benefits, and when they appeal a former decision. There is also a proposal to offer extra incentives for those veterans who are savvy enough to use a computer to apply.
Veterans point out that there are many issues which cause the process to be slowed that are far more serious than the form used to apply. For example, the process of tracking a veteran’s injuries, surgeries, hospital stays, doctor visits, etc, is still a paper one. When a veteran is admitted to one hospital, they have to wait for their records to be sent from all others. The suggestion from the veterans is that the Veteran’s Administration move to a computer system where all of a veteran’s records would be kept, an available to all of their doctors, hospitals, etc.
Any veterans who wish to understand their choices for retirement and estate planning should give Retirement and Estate Planning Lawyer Patricia Bloom-McDonald a call.
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