malfesense known, make it into a visual thing. they have a way of sticking in your head, a yourful tactic, dog-wise. right now, as we speak, veterans of our wars in iraq and afghanistan are using a very similar tactic for a much bigger deal reason. they re not dog shaming, they are va shaming. shaming the veterans administration for the jaw dropping number of days that they, our veterans, personally or having to wait for their benefits claims to be processed. the wait is very very long. look at this. deployment to iraq, 341 days. va claim, 1,099 days. more than three years. this veteran has been waiting almost two years. this one, 584 days. this one, 366 days. these experiences these veterans and families are having are not outliers. the average wait time is nine months to hear back, the average. nine months to clear through the
fesans known, make it into a visual thing. they have a way of sticking in your head, a yourful tactic, dog-wise. right now, as we speak, veterans of our wars in iraq and afghanistan are using a very similar tactic for a much bigger deal reason. they re not dog shaming, they are va shaming. shaming the veterans administration for the jaw dropping number of days that th they, our veterans, personally or having to wait for their benefits claims to be processed. the wait is very very long. look at this. deployment to iraq, 341 days. va claim, 1,099 days. more than three years. this veteran has been waiting almost two years. this one, 584 days. this one, 366 days. these experiences these veterans and families are having are not
to refile. she did month after month. she got doylestown to file on her behalf. they owe us 17,900 dollars. according to laurie her father is entitled to $1,700 a month. in april she contacted congressman mike fitzpatrick s office for assistance. still getting the run around in july from the department of veteran s affairs she turned to fox 29. we have been trying to get answers for the family. i contacted congressman fitzpatri fitzpatrick s office along with the veterans affairs in washington. 13 months seems to be the average time for a philadelphia va claim to be processed. as far as i am concerned that s 13 months too long. congressman fitzpatrick handles claims much faster than philadelphia. his office received dozens of similar complaints. we are not going to rest until ramona receives the