VA incapacity claims backlog drops underneath 100k underneath Trump: Secretary Collins

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The Division of Veterans Affairs introduced that the backlog of VA incapacity compensation and pension profit claims is "persistently" underneath 100,000 for the primary time since 2020.

The final time the backlog was this low was in Could 2020, throughout President Donald Trump's first time period within the White Home.

"Below President Trump, VA is offering Veterans, households, caregivers and survivors all the advantages they've earned as shortly and conveniently as potential," Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins stated in a information launch.

This milestone means the division has now slashed the backlog of veterans ready for VA advantages by 63% since Trump returned to workplace in January 2025 after it rose 24% underneath the Biden administration, in accordance with the discharge.

The Division of Veterans Affairs stated the backlog of VA claims is "persistently" underneath 100,000 for the primary time since 2020. (Samuel Corum/Getty Photographs)

The division stated that decreasing the claims backlog has been an pressing precedence for Collins.

The claims backlog was effectively above 100,000 from 2021 to 2024 in the course of the Biden administration and was at 264,717 when Trump returned to workplace. Throughout Trump's first administration, the division reached the bottom incapacity claims backlog on Dec. 21, 2019, when it was at 64,783 claims.

A VA declare for compensation or pension is taken into account backlogged as soon as it has been pending within the claims stock for greater than 125 days, the division stated.

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Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins stated the VA is offering veterans, households, caregivers and survivors "all the advantages they've earned as shortly and conveniently as potential." (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)

In 2013, a record-high 70% of claims had been greater than 125 days previous. At present, that determine has dropped to only 17%, in accordance with the division.

"VA's claims processing productiveness is the best it has ever been, and we stay up for persevering with to supply report ranges of service to Veterans and VA beneficiaries," Collins stated within the launch.

The Division of Veterans Affairs stated it has now slashed the backlog of veterans ready for VA advantages by 63% since President Donald Trump returned to workplace in January of final 12 months. (ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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The division stated that is certainly one of a number of nationwide achievements throughout Trump’s second time period, which additionally embody opening greater than 30 new VA health care facilities, increasing veterans’ entry to well being care, and completely housing greater than 50,000 homeless veterans in fiscal 12 months 2025 — the best complete in seven years.