they are due from the va. the va backlog got to where soldiers were dying before they got the benefits they were promised when they signed .uh. one refrain from a veteran was this bag backlog that built, built, built, delay, deny, wait till i die. at the beginning of 2012, the average wait for a veteran putting in a disability claim was 188 days. more than six months waiting just to get an answer from the v.a. a year after that, the wait was worse. it wasn't six months anymore. it was nine months, 262 dis, even if the answer a veteran had waited for all that time was no. well, today the v.a. reported that the backlog has been cut way, way down. it has been cut by 44%, by almost half of these hundreds of thousands of claims that were being held up in the system for months. there are still well over 300,000 veterans in line, but the v.a. is finally starting to