Appeal Management Center

[tank]

Anyone please tell what a rating specialist do and How long to take to be rate.

Is there any other number to call or email.

[Josephine]

Torvald,

No, you do not and I pray that you never do. I have been around the block now and being at the BVA and now The Appeals Management Center, do your best to stay at the Regional Level.

This is only my opinion, from my experience only.

Sometimes, moving forward cannot be prevented.

This was my case.

Keep in contact with the members on this site, and I trust that you will be able to accomplish this.

Always,

Josephine

[allan]

Hello Tank,

Anyone please tell what a rating specialist do and How long to take to be rate?

Rating Specialist, DRO's etc are used at the regional office(VARO)level to thoroughly examine the evidence you've submitted and distort it with enough fraudulent statements to it no longer resembles the truth.

Than they deny the claim based on the fraudulent interpretation.

If your lucky enough to receive an honest evaluation, it's highly likely the rating specialist won't be working for the VA very long.

How long "can" it take?

Long enough to watch your children grow & have children.

If your new to the VA war, it might help to keep in mind that you have to do business with an agency ran and operated by lyin, cheatin, bastards that make the mafia look like choir boys.

Rating specialists, DRO's etc, "may" say anything they want to deny your claim without fear of any repercussions. They do not have to sign their name to the decision or prove it was them that did the rating. They have "no" one checking their work for accuracy and are allowed to get away with it for decades.

If the Board of Veterans Appeals orders a remand for violations of law regarding your primary evidence, the Appeals center & Regional offices "may" completely ignore it for years, without any penalties or repercussions.

If your claim can't be thoroughly understood by a three year old, it won't get past most so called(specialists), at the DVA.

I know I sugar coated it some, but thats how it goes down at the DVA.

[Josephine]

Hi Allen,

I couldn't have said that better myself.

What a system???

Josephine

Edited September 14, 2007 by Josephine

[Pete53]

I hate to take up for the DRO but we have members who have benefited by having a DRO review.

[john999]

If you choose the DRO route ask for a personal hearing. It worked for me. Try and get up close and personal with these raters. Be nice and don't call them worthless SOB's or jump over the table at them. You have to appear humble. Even when your claim arrives completely &#@%&*up don't lose your cool. I have a claim in now and I just know that it is going to get screwed up, but I have to wait and work the knots out as I got through the appeals process.

[chess]

Allen

I had no idea that they had improved the rating specialists training to the level that you had mentioned. In the past the rating specialists only had to know 2 things:

1. How to delay a claim for months, or even years, preferably until the Veteran dies, and then blame it on the Veteran. Top VA management is then paid bonuses based on the number of claims delayed until death. Some rating specialists are even creative asking the Veteran to prove unprovable things. For example, require the Veteran provide medical documentation when the Veterans medical records were destroyed in the fire. When the Veteran is unable to do so, of course, the claim is denied. This is the fault of the Veteran for expecting the VA could process their claim in under 5 years.

2. How to deny a claim and then blame it on the Veteran. A rubber stamp, "Claim Denied", works very well here. In order to save ink, the VA is considering pre printing , "claim denied" on all future claim forms in order to save them the hassel of stamping them. Again, this is the fault of the Veteran because Veterans should be more patient in the denial of their claims, and understand that stamping "claim denied" on claims is very tedious work for a GS13 only earning $65 grand per year.

I think most Rating specialists are still using this old method of handling claims, rather than the new improved method you suggested.

Edited September 14, 2007 by chess