veteran s administration, and they are personally having to wait for the benefits claims ton processed. the weight is very, very long. deployment to iraq, 341 days. va claim, 1099 days. that s more than three years. 442 days, and that s how long this veteran has been waiting for benefits, and that s almost two years, and this one 548 days, or this one, 366 days. these experiences that these veterans and their families are having are not out liers. the average weight is nine months for a claim cleared you have the va and it s longer to the newest veterans specifically if you fought in afghanistan or iraq, and instead of getting better this problem has gotten worse and is trending in the wrong direction.