For disabled veterans awaiting benefits decisions, location matters

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IVAW board member Dottie Guy featured in powerful investigative article, For disabled veterans awaiting benefits decisions, location matters, exposing veterans' long wait for help. 

The story, writen by Aaron Glantz and Shane Shifflette, shows that veterans in most major US cities including -- including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Atlanta often wait over a year for their benefits, while those in sparsely populated states like Montana and South Dakota receive their benefits in a just a few months.

The story runs alongside an incredible interactive map by Shane Shifflett, which shows the delays veterans face at each one of the VA's 58 regional offices. The map will automatically update weekly, providing instant accountability, showing in real time whether the VA makes good on its promise to eliminate the VA claims backlog: http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/interactive/map-disabled-vets-stuck-backlog-limbo/

The story runs today in a host of outlets, including on the front page of Stars and Stripes, and in the San Francisco Chronicle, WNYC, Daily Beast, San Diego Union Tribune, KPBS, Albany Times Union, and more in the coming days.

Please share the story: http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/story/disabled-veterans-awaiting-benefits/