Stars and Stripes reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) top claim processing official recently testified before the House veteran affairs' subcommittee on disability assistance. Tom Murphy, director of compensation service for the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), an agency for the Department of Veterans Affairs, testified that the only way to achieve VA's goal of every disability compensation claim being processed within 125 days and with 98 percent accuracy is to shift to a paperless claims system. And that transformation has begun. Opening statements and a webcast of the January 24, 2012 hearing are available on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs website.
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