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Blood pressures rise, with cause, at the mention of the place.
Just outside the city is the Department of Veterans Affairs regional office, where all benefit claims in the state are approved or rejected. The backlog is about 22,000 cases and isn't expected to decrease significantly any time soon. Rulings often take 16 months or drag on for years. A recent review by the congressional General Accounting Office found that a single claim may meander through a bureaucratic maze of 39 waiting queues and 66 decision points before being resolved - or not being resolved. Yet for disabled vets in Florida, all roads lead to St. Pete.