Your application will go through several steps before you are approved (or denied) VA disability benefits, and each step can take weeks or longer to complete. Here are the usual steps that a claim will go through in order to be processed by the VA: Receipt of your claim. The VA will send you a notice when it has received your claim.
Harvey came ashore August 25 as a Category 4 hurricane with high winds and a destructive storm surge. After it moved slightly inland, it swirled in place over southeast Texas for a few days, dropping record-shattering rain and flooding several areas.
U.S. 1  The powerful eye of the storm initially reached land by 11 p.m. 2  The Category 4 storm was packing winds of more than 130 mph. 3  Harvey was downgraded to a still-dangerous Category 3 hurricane around 2 a.m. 4  The storm knocked down trees, power lines and signs in south Texas. 5  It is the most powerful storm to make landfall in the U.S. since 2005.