By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After growing steadily for years, the backlog of U.S. military veterans' disability claims is falling sharply - dropping by more than a third since March, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs said on Thursday. Eric Shinseki said the progress kept him on track to eliminate the claims backlog by sometime in 2015. It would also allow him to briefly halt mandatory overtime for claims processors, one of the reasons the backlog has fallen. This is: More work to be done." The disability claims pileup during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars exposed President Barack Obama's administration to ridicule, including from television satirist Jon Stewart.
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