Lazy VA…Faster Claim Processing is not Necessarily Better.
Got my decision on my supplemental claim six days after my C&P exam. Denied again.
I submitted what I know now to be a very incomplete claim for OSA (secondary to a service connected disability) that was rightly denied this winter without even a C&P exam. The only evidence I submitted was my sleep study.
After that denial I found this group and learned about the importance of buddy statements, nexus letters, etc. So, I submitted a supplemental claim and added my own support statement, additional medical records, a buddy statement, and a nexus letter to my claim. I also had a C&P exam.
The denial I got today says there is no basis to change the original decision because I did not submit any new evidence as part of my supplemental claim. It claims that the buddy statement and my support statement were both part of the record the VA used to make the original decision. That is not only untrue, but it physically impossible that my April 2026 letters were part of the record when the original decision was made in February 2026. They don’t even mention the nexus letter at all.
Looks like I now have to go there HLR route.
I know we all want to get those decisions quickly, but I’d rather they take longer if that means that they’ll actually do their job.