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NOTE: VA Fast Letter 08-20.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 July 2, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 08-20 SUBJ: Benefits Delivery at Discharge Expansion and Pre-Discharge Claims Consolidation Overview This Fast Letter (FL) supplements M21-1MR, Part III, Subpart i, Chapter 2, which provides information and guidance for processing and rating claims filed by servicemembers.
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-23.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 July 22, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 08-23 SUBJ: Pension Consolidation Procedures Purpose The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) is consolidating original live and death pension claims from the 57 Home Regional Offices (HROs) to three Pension Maintenance Centers (PMCs) located in Philadelphia, St. Paul, and Milwaukee. Dual claims (having both compensation and pension issues) will be consolidated next fiscal year. The objectives of consolidation …
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-26.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 September 16, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 08-26 SUBJECT: Vazquez-Flores v. Peake and New Veterans Claims Assistance Act (VCAA) Notification Requirements This fast letter contains guidance on new notification requirements in claims for increased disability compensation. This letter supercedes any prior guidance regarding notification procedures resulting from a decision issued by the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (the Court) in Vazquez-F…
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NOTE: VA Fast Letter 08-29.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 October 3, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 08-29 SUBJ: Terminating Fugitive Felon Awards Background In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 5313B, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits are not payable to · beneficiaries while they are fugitive felons, or · dependents of a veteran beneficiary who is a fugitive felon. M21-1MR, Part IX, Chapter 16.2.i currently instructs that benefit payments to fugitive felons must be disconti…
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-31.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 October 7, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers In Reply Refer to: 211D Fast Letter 08-31 SUBJ: Interim Final Rule: Presumption of Service Connection for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Rescinds Fast Letter 01-100, Call Up and Identification of Cases of Gulf War Veterans with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)/Lou Gehrig's Disease, dated December 19, 2001. Purpose An interim final rulemaking establishing a presumption of service connection for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-33.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 October 10, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers In Reply Refer To: 211 Fast Letter 08-33 SUBJ: Updated Audio Compensation and Pension Examination Worksheet 1. The following changes ....
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-34.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 October 10, 2008 In Reply Refer To: 211D Fast Letter 08-34 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers SUBJECT: Revised Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Worksheet Purpose Effective immediately, a revised TBI disability examination worksheet is available for national use.
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-36.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 October 24, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers In Reply Refer to: 211D Fast Letter 08-36 SUBJ: Final Rule: Schedule for Rating Disabilities; Evaluation of Residuals of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Purpose A final rulemaking amending 38 CFR 4.124a was published in the Federal Register on September 23, 2008, at 73 FR 54693. This rulemaking revises the portion of § 4.124a, Neurological conditions and convulsive disorders, which addresses residuals of traumatic bra…
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-38.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 November 3, 2008 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 08-38 SUBJ: Survivor Benefits Claims Consolidation Procedures Purpose Fast Letter 08-23, Pension Consolidation Procedures, provided information on Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) consolidation efforts for original and reopened pension claims. This fast letter provides information on Phase II of the consolidation of survivor benefits claims (SBCs) from 57 home regional offices (HROs) to three pension…
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NOTE: VA_Fast_Letter_08-41.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 November 14, 2008 Director (00/21) VA Regional Offices In Reply Refer To: 212 Fast Letter 08-41 SUBJ: Special Temporary Procedures in Response to October 2008 Records Incident Purpose This letter provides information and guidance on handling assertions from claimants and veterans' representatives that a claim or evidence was previously submitted to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and not properly retained and considered.
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NOTE: VA Fast Letter 09-05.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 January 27, 2009 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 09-05 SUBJ: New Notice and Development Paragraphs for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) Claims. Purpose The purpose of this letter is to provide information and guidance on the use of new "What The Evidence Must Show" (WTEMS) notice and development paragraphs for DIC claims in Modern Award Processing-Development (MAP-D). All regional offices (ROs) and centers must use both the new WTEMS n…
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NOTE: VA Fast Letter 09-06.pdf DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Benefits Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 January 29, 2009 Director (00/21) All VA Regional Offices and Centers Fast Letter 09-06 SUBJ: Appeals Resource Centers This letter provides information and procedural guidance on the brokering of certain appeals from regional offices of jurisdiction (ROJs) to the Appeals Resource Centers (ARCs). Brokering is expected to begin on or about February 2, 2009.
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