Veterans are deeply concerned about the VA's claims backlog. In March of 2013, there were over 896,000 claims in the inventory; of that number, more than 632,000 or 70 percent were backlogged or pending longer than VA's goal of 125 days. As of December of 2013, those numbers look very different. The number of claims pending longer than 125 days, or officially part of the backlog, has dropped to just over 395,000 claims or 57 percent of the total inventory...