I'm Jenna zulmer with an update from cck regarding the board of veterans appeals
and our recent legal action against VA cck recently took legal action against by VA by
filing several petitions for rent against the board based on the board's lack of productivity
regarding the processing of legacy and AMA appeals our goal is to ask the court to force CA to more
effectively process these cases and eliminate needless delays plaguing the VA benefit system
just yesterday cck received a notice of a quarter from the court regarding one of these petitions
for rent the judge on the case is asking VA to address the Court's concerns and provide
any documentation necessary to Aid the court in resolving the petition VA must respond within 14
days of the order Additionally the judge ordered VA to submit status reports to the court regarding
the processing of the appeals at issue in this case every 20 days starting 20 days from the
date of the order now seemingly in response to cck's legal action as well as criticism
from other veterans Advocates and organizations the board has restructured the appeals metrics
page on its website in particular the website now addresses some of the main questions and arguments
cck has made in its petition despite these changes however the information is still misleading and
inaccurate first the board has not addressed the primary complaint in our rents that they
were violating the law and how they decided cases out of order additionally the board has hired many
vljs that are simply not able to do the job on day one or even on day 100. there is significant
blame placed upon everyone but the board further delays specifically the board blames the court
the vso representatives and Veterans and their family members for a good portion of the delay
next the numbers that the board has on its website are misleading an AMA direct docket case that is
supposed to be issued within 365 days is simply not unless it is Advanced on the board's docket
our clients cases are taking at least two and a half years In the quote-unquote Fastlane if
the case is not Advanced and the majority of the cases in the direct docket Lane are not
Advanced essentially the board is doing less with more in terms of cost per case
it has been issuing a smaller number of decisions for each of the past three years and this year it
has issued far fewer than what was promised at the beginning of the year the board has been
provided with significantly more resources during this time and it has simply not delivered finally
the board's description of the court process and the lack of legal error is disingenuous and false
remands from the court are premised on the board's legal error in violating 38 USC 7104
and it is simply not true that remans from Court don't result in a different outcome sometimes the
outcome is an award but other times the point of a Rayman from the court is to force the board to
comply with its legal obligations such as the duty to assist a veteran in obtaining
a medical examination essentially the court serves an important function in keeping the
board accountable you can visit the board appeals metrics page for more information
we'll link that below but essentially the board seems to be deflecting blame rather than fixing
the issues with its internal processes that are causing these massive and ongoing delays thank you
for watching and be sure to stay tuned for more cck updates as the situation develops foreign