Rapid Appeals Modernization Program

Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP), is a program that allowed veterans to participate in a simplified version of the AMA process more than a year before the AMA launched, by converting eligible legacy appeals into supplemental claims or higher level reviews.

The two types of RAMP forms are:

1. RAMP Election - This is the form used to opt-in all eligible legacy appeals, and create either a supplemental claim or higher level review to process them. Additionally, it creates the appropriate EP in VBMS to process the supplemental claim or higher level review.

2. RAMP Selection - This is the name for the form used to contest decisions made as part of RAMP Election. "RAMP Selection" is the official for the form chosen by AMO, but because it's easily confused with "RAMP Election", we use the term "RAMP Refiling" in the codebase. loads up any issues on past RAMP decisions that are selectable for review. Unlike RAMP Elections, RAMP Selections allow veterans to select the board appeal lane. Appeals requested via RAMP Selection forms are processed and stored identically to AMA appeals, for this reason, users perform two intakes for these forms. First, they must intake the RAMP Selection form, then they intake an AMA board appeal to construct the more complex issue data required to process AMA appeals.

NOTE: RAMP is intended to be a temporary pilot, and will sunset soon. For that reason we have chosen to deprioritize all but the most urgent development tasks associated with RAMP issues.

Per this article, RAMP processing ended in October 2022. The feature toggle :ramp_intake is only enabled in Prodtest/Production for a small number of users, and is not enabled in UAT for any users.