{"id":395,"date":"2015-08-28T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=395"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:24:49","slug":"historic-success-for-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/historic-success-for-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Success for VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week,\u00a0the VA\u00a0reduced the disability claims backlog to 98,535 claims &#8211; an 84% reduction from its peak and a historic low. This reduction means that Veterans&#8217; disability claim decisions are being delivered more accurately and efficiently. The faster Veterans receive completed claim decisions, the quicker they can access the benefits they are entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>As we mark this important milestone in VA&#8217;s history, we commit to continuing our efforts to improve. We will never waiver in our dedication to providing the best possible service to Veterans, Servicemembers, their families, and Survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about how VA is improving services to Veterans and what you can do to help us achieve even greater success.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/22436\/va-claims-backlog-now-under-100000-lowest-in-department-history\/?utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=emotion&amp;utm_campaign=backlog%20reduction%20promotion\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week,\u00a0the VA\u00a0reduced the disability claims backlog to 98,535 claims &#8211; an 84% reduction from its peak and a historic low. This reduction means that Veterans&#8217; disability claim decisions are being delivered more accurately and efficiently. The faster Veterans receive completed claim decisions, the quicker they can access the benefits they are entitled to. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/historic-success-for-va\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historic Success for VA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}