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Update decision reviews page based on research findings #66353

Open katherine-fung opened 1 year ago

katherine-fung commented 1 year ago

Issue Description

Benefits Team 1 shared user research findings about decision reviews. We need to review their findings and iterate on the "Choosing a decision review" page.

For Board Appeals specifically, a participant thought there was a discrepancy for the timeline for Board Appeals under ‘How long does a decision review take?’ They said it was misleading to see 365 days (1 year) only to see that submitting evidence and hearings can take up to 730 days (2 years).


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aprocik1 commented 9 months ago

@bethpotts and @katherine-fung, I've reviewed the team's content-related finding and recommendation. They'd like us to "provide more relevant, tailored" content on this page. What do you think of my suggestion below?

Suggestion

I think we could focus our response to the first H2, "Which decision review option is right for me?" Here are my suggestions:

For example, this is how the first H3 would read (after removing filing information, but before adding eligibility information):

If you have new evidence

File a Supplemental Claim if you have new and relevant evidence that we didn’t consider before. We can help you gather any new evidence you identify (such as medical records) to support your claim.

A reviewer will decide if this new evidence changes the decision.

Learn more about Supplemental Claims and how to file

Note: You can also submit new evidence with certain types of Board Appeals. Keep reading on this page to learn about Board Appeals.

Note

After reviewing our decision review pages, I'm left with this out of scope, but related reflection: I think there's a larger audit and update needed to make all our decision review content more clear and concise. The pages below present very similar content in slightly different ways.

We could consider merging these two resources and support pages:

We could consider standardizing the presentation of content on each of these decision review pages:

We could consider merging these two "after" pages:

P.S. I just found out Danielle's been doing a bunch of work on these pages. Yahoo!