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Jared Serbu, DoD Reporter, Federal News Radio

One major factor behind the Department of Veterans Affairs' disability claims backlog is that it generally takes a long time before the Defense Department sends...

Federal News Network Staff

August 29, 2014 4:36 pm

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One major factor behind the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disability claims backlog is that it generally takes a long time before the Defense Department sends its medical records to VA when a military member leaves the service. A new IT system DoD installed this year was supposed to solve that problem, but according to a new inspector general’s report, things are as slow as ever. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells In Depth with Francis Rose what’s going on in this week’s edition of Inside the DoD Reporter’s Notebook.