The Department of Veterans Affairs is joining with two key veterans’ service organizations – the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans – in a partnership aimed at getting a handle on the large number of unresolved disability and benefits claims. Legion and DAV representatives plan to visit VA offices across the country and train caseworkers in methods. The aim is to help veterans produce fully developed claims, which the agency claims can be resolved within 125 days with 98-percent accuracy. Because fully resolved claims can be processed in half the time of conventionally filed claims, they stand a better chance of never joining VA’s backlog of unresolved cases.