If a child is older than 8 years old or over 57 inches tall, they are not required by law to ride in a booster seat. Best practice however would be to keep children under 57 inches riding in a booster until they meet the height requirement, regardless of age.
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.
There is no standard on how long an application takes. Application time varies depending on what level of the process the award is made. Our experience is that it will take around 6 months to get granted or denied your initial application. According to SSA it takes 3-5 months to get the first decision back from Social Security on a disability claim. Here is a breakdown of average times as of Spring 2006.