Disability evaluation reforms seen falling short - by Tom Philpott - Standard-Examiner
After a three-year effort by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to improve the process, ill and injured military members still endure a long, complex and often contentious evaluation system when seeking disability ratings and compensation for service-related health conditions.
The process has been made more convenient and even shortened by an average six to eight months under a pilot program jointly run by the two departments and which continues to be expanded to more military bases.
Yet the Defense Department's personnel chief and the Army's surgeon general both have concluded, and said publicly, that the "integrated" disability evaluation system, or IDES, remains a disappointment... Read :full article by clicking headline or at > http://www.standard.net/topics/features/2011/04/06/disability-evaluation-reforms-seen-falling-short
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