Delays in Review - Nehmer Review

Jim,
I talked to you about 3 three weeks ago about this, and you said i should wait a while. But now they have done something i don't think is right. They had me in Development at frist, then they put me in Decision and i was in it for 3 weeks ,then they put back in Develoment Phase again, I have called the 1-800 827-1000 , and they do not know to say to me. Are they are not telling me anything.

What do you think they are doing? I have had my paper work in before a lot of people and they are grtting there getting ther e money. please help me.
Reply:
We went back to see that you have filed a previous claim for IHD...in 2007. It was then denied.
Your claim is getting a "Nehmer Review". There is a law that says that the claims like yours that were previously denied must now be reviewed by a special team.
This will take longer than others that were not previously denied. Because of recently enacted laws, there are some 150,000 Nehmer reviews awaiting decisions. There have been recent errors by VA that now require that thousands of Nehmer claims reviews that were completed must now be reviewed again.
This is pretty typical of the VA process. It seems that to get a thing done right the first time continues to elude our VA. Rework, delays and the associated expenses and exorbitant waste of taxpayer dollars is a day to day fact at the VA.
The great news is that your claim is probably going to pay you all the way back to the date of that first claim. I'd like you to try to be patient and wait this out. Give it 3 more months and if you haven't heard anything, reply to this email to let me know.