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.
Harvey came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane, the fiercest to hit Texas since 1961. The last Category 4 storm to hit the US was Hurricane Charley in August 2004 in Florida. Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane. Harvey moved slowly inland and was later downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 90mph and gusts of up to 120mph.