Thomas J Reed Copyright (c) 2011 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed Recent documents in Thomas J Reed en-us Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:33:50 PST 3600 The 21st-Century Veteran and the 19th-Century Pension Code: Why the VA Claims Process Is a Steam Engine in an E-Universe http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/37 http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/37 Mon, 09 May 2011 08:58:35 PDT Thomas J. Reed Veterans Serve Those Who Serve Their Country: Represent a Veteran before the VA http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/36 http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/36 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:16:58 PST Justin G. Holbrook et al. Veterans Trojan Horse Bill Hurts Veterans It Purports to Help http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/35 http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/35 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:05:47 PDT Thomas J. Reed Veterans Parallel Lines Never Meet: Why the Military Disability Retirement and Veterans Affairs Department Claim Adjudication Systems Are a Failure http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/34 http://works.bepress.com/thomas_reed/34 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:46:01 PST Service members who are injured or come down with a disease while on active duty have two roads to seek compensation for disability benefits that are part of the enlistment contract. The first road is military disability retirement, administered by the armed services. The second road is VA compensation administered by the cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs. Both systems are near collapse due to a backlog of undecided claims and manifest injustices in awarding benefits to disabled veterans and dependents.

Professor Reed proposes a radical reform of the dual compensation system by combining military disability retirement and VA benefits into a single program administered by the VA. He also proposes a "clean up" of the Va claims processing system to make the system work. That “clean up" includes setting deadlines for VA action, providing limited discovery for Board of Veterans Appeals hearings and re-writing the overly-complex Schedule for Rating Disabilities into a simple four step award system.

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