CNN State of the Union March 24, 2013 16:23:00
More complex claims because of the seriousness. >> multiple claims by one person have gone up. >> that's correct. complexity issue and our paper process has been for decades. this has been decades building. and we need to go digital and we're in the process of doing that. we also compound this backlog when we make decisions, as we did in 2010, to grant agent orange service connection for vietnam veterans, gulf war illness service connection for those who went to desert storm and then our increase of claims through combat ptsd. we said for the first time if you have been in combat and have veri...