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<span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">The Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by former General Eric Shineski, has the primary responsibility for all aspects of veterans’ lives. The Government Accountability Office reported recently that coordination with the Department of Defense (Pentagon) had begun in 2007 for a “seamless transition” of their separate, complex processes for disability evaluations into one system. <span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">That system is now in place worldwide, but the accountability office has found that the processing time for disability claims has gone up rather than down. It reached an average of 394 days for active-duty troops and 420 days for National Guard members and reservists in 2011.

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