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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi has
announced that the VA's 57 regional claims offices will pull an estimated 6,000 applications of veterans age 70
or older that have been pending for more than a year. A special team in Cleveland will tackle that workload as a
top national priority, then will move to 17,000 of the longest-pending claims of other veterans whose claims have
been pending more than a year. VA also is focusing at nine centers on 58,000 more claims from other veterans who have
waited more than a year for a decision. Even after the backlog of the long-pending claims of older veterans is
reduced, VA will keep in place new rules to raise the priority of all applications of veterans who are age 70
or older.
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