A ranking of veterans benefits cases that, once appealed, mustbe redone.
In the ranking below, the first category lists the RegionalOffice, the second is Total appeals acted on, and the third is thepercentage of them remanded.
| Regional Office | Total appeals acted on | % of them remanded |
| Huntington, W.Va | 1,320 | 52.5% |
| Boston | 1,321 | 51.2% |
| Columbia, S.C. | 3,095 | 50.1% |
| Montgomery, Ala. | 4,217 | 49.9% |
| Houston | 2,214 | 49.7% |
| Wilmington, Del. | 182 | 49.5% |
| Salt Lake City | 383 | 49.3% |
| Baltimore | 707 | 48.8% |
| Atlanta | 2,152 | 48.7% |
| Denver | 1,014 | 48.1% |
| Little Rock, Ark. | 2,316 | 47.8% |
| Pittsburgh | 2,420 | 47.8% |
| Reno, Nev. | 863 | 47.7% |
| Boise, Idaho | 482 | 47.5% |
| New York | 1,730 | 46.7% |
| Newark, N.J. | 1,289 | 46.7% |
| Cleveland | 2,610 | 46.7% |
| Chicago | 1,826 | 46.3% |
| Los Angeles | 2,349 | 46.3% |
Roanoke, Va 1,869 46.1%New Orleans 2,421 46.1%St. Petersburg, Fla. 5,762 45.8%Oakland, Calif. 1,576 45.8%Nashville, Tenn. 2,715 45.0%Muskogee, Okla. 1,81344.2%Togus, Maine 482 44.2%Washington, D.C. 666 44.0%Philadelphia 1,454 43.7%Winston-Salem, N.C. 2,690 42.5%Wichita, Kan. 949 42.4%St. Louis 2,116 42.3%San Diego 740 42.0%White River Junction, Vt. 169 42.0%Jackson, Miss. 1,877 41.9%Buffalo, N.Y. 1,620 41.9%Seattle 893 41.8%Albuquerque, N.M. 801 41.7%Detroit 2,312 41.7%Hartford, Conn. 628 41.6%Honolulu 207 41.1%Portland, Ore. 1,315 40.4%Phoenix 1,594 40.3%Waco, Texas 4,112 40.1%Manchester, N.H. 260 40.0%Louisville, Ky. 1,268 39.0%Providence, R.I. 268 48.8%Cheyenne, Wyo. 242 38.4%Indianapolis 1,305 38.2%Fort Harrison, Mont. 364 37.4%Des Moines, Iowa 418 37.1%Milwaukee, Wis. 492 37.0%Lincoln, Neb. 1,174 36.0%Anchorage, Alaska 149 32.2%Fargo, N.D. 226 30.1%Sioux Falls, S.D. 246 30.1%St. Paul, Minn. 803 25.0%TOTALS 87,025 44.3%
SOURCE: Knight Ridder analysis of VA appeals data for combined fiscalyears 2002, 2003 and 2004.
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