This bill requires the Board of Veterans' Appeals to provide more detailed transparency in its annual reports about why some veterans' appeals are delayed or sent back for additional review. Specifically, the Board's Chairman must identify the specific factors causing appeals to miss legal deadlines and must report what percentage of delayed cases were affected by each factor. The bill also requires the same type of breakdown for cases that are remanded, or sent back to lower levels for reconsideration. The legislation applies to cases under both the current appeals system and the older legacy system. There is no specific funding allocation or implementation timeline mentioned in the bill; it simply adds new reporting requirements to help Congress and veterans understand where bottlenecks and problems occur in the appeals process.
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