Sec. 801. Requirement for Veterans Benefits Administration Monday Morning Workload Report
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Chapter 53 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: Not less frequently than once each week, the Under Secretary for Benefits shall publish on a publicly available website of the Department, a report providing a snapshot of the workload of the Veterans Benefits Administration. Each report published pursuant to subsection
(a)shall include the following: National totals for pending and backlogged compensation, pension, appeals, and education workloads of the Veterans Benefits Administration. National, district, and regional office-level data, disaggregated by the following: Station of jurisdiction. Station of origination. State. National Work Queue, or successor queue, including— the number of claims pending at stage of the claims life cycle; and average time claims are pending at each stage of a life cycle. Data for groups of claims, disaggregated by national, district, and regional office or State level, including non-rating bundle, entitlement bundle, award adjustments bundle, program review bundle, other bundle, burial claims, accrued claims, appeals, number of claims and appeals with duty to assist errors, and such other groups as the Secretary considers appropriate. National level data on claim and appeal inventories, disaggregated by end product code. Regional office level data on claim and appeal inventories, disaggregated by traditional aggregate groups. National level data on the future volume of work of which the Under Secretary is aware. Average age of claims that have maintained continuous pursuit. Factors contributing to the increase or decrease in workload and the claims backlog. Such additional data as the Under Secretary considers appropriate. Each report published pursuant to subsection
(a)in a week shall be published on the Monday of that week, except as follows: In a case in which the Monday of the week of publication is a Federally recognized holiday, the report shall be published on the Tuesday of that week. In a case in which the Secretary is publishing the report required by subsection
(a)more than once in a single week, any publication after the first publication may be made on any day of the week at the discretion of the Under Secretary. . The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 53 of such title is amended by adding after the item relating to section 5321 the following new item: 5322. Monday Morning Workload Report. .