By John Ismay
The Department of Veterans Affairs has made major headway getting benefits to former service members quickly, officials say. The news comes a time California is expecting an influx of thousands of new veterans.
In L.A., the average wait time for disability claims has dropped from 14 months to three months since 2013.Ā “It’s definitely getting better,” saidĀ Garry Augustine, of Disabled American Veterans, a group that helps veterans apply for benefits.
The backlog of disability claims provoked a major scandal for the Veterans Administration in 2012. Jon Stewart mocked the department on The Daily Show for what he called 
Operation Enduring Wait.
Augustine said the “the backlog of claims over 125 days was over 600,000 cases” back then. This week, the V.A. announced that number was down to about 95,000.
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