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Veteran Affairs building near the White House in Washington, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
14 Jun 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs is chipping away at a disability claims backlog that ballooned during the pandemic, but it doesn t expect to achieve pre-pandemic levels until late next year, officials said last week.
Part of the strategy includes providing staff to support records retrieval and digitization, as well as paying for overtime at the National Archives and Records Administration, according to the VA.
Of roughly 520,000 pending VA claims for disability compensation and benefits, 191,000 are considered to be backlogged, or older than 125 days. While the number is down by roughly 10% from earlier this year, it far exceeds the 77,000 cases that were considered backlogged in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
The Navy veteran who ended up changing the lives of 90,000 fellow sailors following a 2019 court decision over Agent Orange died at the Owatonna Hospital on Friday.
Albert âAlâ Procopio Jr. died at the age of 75 early Friday morning of kidney failure after a decades-long battle with exposure to Agent Orange herbicide during his service in Vietnam. According to Procopioâs family, he was in the process of transitioning from his home in Ham Lake to an assisted living facility in Owatonna, where his son Joe Procopio and his family lives.
âAl suffered for years from diabetes, lung disease, and prostate cancer among other things,â said Jessica Procopio, Al Procopioâs daughter-in-law who remembers her father-in-law as the loud, sarcastic man from Boston who was a teddy bear inside. âHis mind was amazing, but his body and health have been on a steady decline due to Agent Orange.â