North Carolina is launching an initiative aimed at serving active-duty military, veterans and their families.
There has long been an enormous backlog of appeals filed by US military veterans at the Veterans Affairs Administration's regional office in Winston-Salem. But North Carolina US Senator Kay Hagan may have made some inroads in correcting that situation.
Last year, the Winston-Salem Veterans Affairs Regional office landed on a federal radar because of long delays and thousands of exposed claim folders. Now administrators say they're changing how claims are processed. But there is still a wait.