VA errors force more vets into years-long appeals on disability claims

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Phil Lindley would seem like the last guy who would get stuck in the unending bureaucracy of Department of Veterans Affairs appeals.

Yet he’s been fighting his way up and down the appeals ladder since 1997, trying to resolve a disability claim related to back injuries he received in a parachute jump while doing Ranger training.

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