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Help Please
I am the sole caretaker for my spouse which makes it extremely difficult to leave and go to a VA facility to file my claim. When I registered for Ebenefits it says I have to have a Premium Account but I cannot just leave for the in person verification. It is imperative that I get benefits because of recent health status and also the full time care my wife will need if/when I need a treatment plan. Can somebody direct me on how to get VA Form 21-526 filled out and also to obtain my C File? I have a portion of my medical record frm my time in service in the Army from 1972-1976. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated, I live in a fairly rem…
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FDC rigmarole
On August 27th I finally completed and submitted my husband's FDC. We used Valor 4 Vets for an IMO, and I submitted over 1800 pages of medical records. Michael at Valor was great to work with, and he assured me I had covered all the bases with everything we submitted. I'm not sure my husband even needed the IMO, but once I had all the records, buddy letters, DBTs (3 of them,) and family letters, it all looked overwhelming and disjointed to me. I felt having one letter tying everything together from Bethanie at Valor 4 Vets would help tie everything together since my husband had so many providers giving opinions over a one-year span. Also since the VA had denied his mental…
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Intent to File date different
I filed my dad's intent to file on 2/3/2017 compensation. It has shown that date for months in the ebenifits. Today I noticed that it says under that date 2/3/2018 Online Claim Received. His claim was received 11/14/2017 and it shows that in the system. What is happening? i don't want his back pay date to be messed up. Had this happened to anyone else???
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Total combined disability updated in Ebenefits, but claim still gathering evidence?
***EDITED TO ADD RATED DISABILITIES****** I hadn't checked Ebenefits in a while because I became frustrated with the change in open claim status from gathering evidence to awaiting documents are past due. I asked my VSO if there was anything I needed to do and he said that it wasn't at our end, but between C&P and VA. All medical records were uploaded by VSO and intent to file was sent within 12 months of retirement (20 years in Navy), so any backpay would be retro to NOV 2016. So I clicked on the Disabilities TAB, and to my surprise is says, "You have a 100% final degree of disability". -All of my rated disabilities had effective dates…
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Heads up - Check your ebenefit dates of awards
I have not logged onto ebenefits in about 6 months. I needed a verification letter for my property taxes. The date of my last award for IU was changed from December 2016 to December 2017 - Has anyone else had this happen? Unable to send a request - IRIS apparently is not responding - with the ability to put in a trouble ticket. It allow the form to be out but will not submit. _ this was on the weekend will try again. I go to the VA 3 times a week for counseling so I will see if VBA office has a perspective and give an update - Check your date for a Navy "CYA" ( Cover your A$$) If I did not have my last letter with the proper date "printed" out ( old …
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Fully Developed Claim filed
Hi all. I have been reading posts for awhile but this my first post. I am xurrently 50% service connected for thrombophlebitis right calf with venous stasis disease and lymphedema. I filed to reopen my claim for an increase in March and for service connection of arthritis in both knees. Ebennies says: Status of Your Claim Submitted: 06/01/2017 (Compensation) Estimated Completion: 06/30/2017 - 07/07/2017 Estimated Completion InfoTooltip with additional information Disabilities Claimed: Routine Future Exam- right postphlebitic syndrome with chronic lymphedema with recurrent episodes of cellulitis (previously rated as (thrombophlebi…
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E-Benefits
I feel that E-benefits is nothing more then a "pathetic joke", whose mission is to frustrate every veteran it can. I have a couple of issues that I am dealing with, and I log on to E-benefits once, maybe twice a week at the most. At least 80-90% of the time it is not working. Today it said you "Cannot Login, but sorry for the inconvience". Every time I have logged in it is either 1) down for maintenance, 2) updating something that should have been done months ago, 3) Or just not working. Why not shut down the system for a month or so, and really resolve the problem(s)? I guess that seems to logical and sensible for the VA to ever figure out!
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Pay Question
New here, but I thought I'd see if anyone else has had the same issue as me. 2 months ago, I changed banks, called ebenefits and updated the information. Since then, I have not received any service connected pay. Hundreds of calls later to ebenefits, they just say that it's not my fault, the account was suspended and it's being worked on. That's the only information I have been able to get out of them. I have just recently contacted my congressman and am letting his office look into it. Any ideas?
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Pension - to SSA for med evid used in disab dec
Has anyone seen this in their E-Benefits status? Pension - to SSA for med evid used in disab dec If you have does it impact my UI claim if I have never filed for SSA? Currently at 80% hoping to move to 100% with UI.
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C-File completed?
The FOIA for my C-File showed up as Gathering of Evidence under "open claims" until 11/30/17, when it moved to the completed section. Does anyone know approximately how long it'll take for them to finish processing my C-File now that it's "completed" under eBenefits and send it to me? Do they get mailed right away? Or do they get put into another stack where I have to wait another 6 months for it to get mailed? Also, my NOD got denied so I filed a substantive appeal. However, the substantive appeal has been sitting at the originating VA office for the past several months. Does anyone know approximately how long it takes for substantive appeals to be moved from the origina…
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Ebenefits Down Today?
Is there scheduled maintenance on Ebenefits today? I tried to log in and it said it was been updated and would be ready for me to view soon. Is it just my ebenefits that is broke or is it the whole website?
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when will e-benefits update an ab8 after claim is complete
O.K. I have a book of information here sorry. I am already 100% total from the V.A. for mental health issues. I submitted a claim to add a serious mental condition to my existing disability. How long does it take for e benefits to reflect the new change or will the ab8 stay the same considering I am already 100%. I also submitted for P&T due to my issues being static, and also just getting my review done by SSDI and that being extended due to my condition. When I got E-benefits under the disabilities tab it shows my new contention that i filed for and also that I am still rated 100% but the date is still the same date that I got when I was approved the first time…
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