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Received Award Letter! Great News!
Greetings to all, I received my award letter tday in the mail. I knew it was coming today could not sleep last night. All my claims for increase was granted: Praise God!!!!!!!!!!!! 1) Evaluation of lower extremities includes: VV, PP, PL and degenerativbe changes of the feet is incresaed to 100% disableing. Effective 2 years ago 2) Entitlement to $11,000.00 towards the purchase price of Auto and other conveyance and adaptive equiptement. 3) Entitlement to Special Adaptive Housing granted 4) Entitlement ot SMC based on loss of feet with addtional disabilities evaluated as 50% disabling. 5) All addtional claims for increase and appeals have been granted(…
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Smcs Made Easy?
Anyone have a good link or file which explains all the differnt SMCs so that even I can understand it? I am so confused Thanks Raven
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Chapter 35 Question
When one receives Chapter 35 benefits, Do they only get the monthly rates posted on the web sight and then pay for school out of that or does the VA pay for the school and give the monthly rate as a living allowance (like Voch Rehab)? Thanks Raven
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What is a De Novo Review? Thanks.
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Travel Pay To Non-va Treatment?
I Drive 150 miles round trip three times a week to dialysis at a non-VA facility. Now that my kidney failure is SC, am I eligible for reimbursement of travel pay? The nearest Dialysis center that is VA is almost 200 miles one way. Also how do I go about recouping travel pay for VA appointments related to my SC condition(s) for travel taken after filing claim? Thanks Kirk
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Getting Records
>unit's history. Besides visiting the Archives in person, there are >two steps to obtain your Unit's History - step one then step two. > >STEP ONE > >National Archives >Attention: Textual Reference (Vietnam) >8601 Adepphi Road >College Park, MD 20740-6001 > >Date __________________ > >Gentlemen, > >Please verify the following records are available for research. > >Unit, _________________________________________________ > >Brigade, ______________________________________________ > >Division, _____________________________________________ > >Date of Action, ____________________________…
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Temporary 100% Rating
Has anyone had experience with being granted 100% then being called back for another C&P exam for other claimed medical problems. A few months back they granted me 100% for my heart, to be re-examined at a later date, I am now being called in for another C&P exam for other problems. Howard Sessions
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ptsd Ptsd And Malaria
This is an excellent article! www.historynet.com/vn/bl-...m-malaria/ U.S. Vietnam War Soldiers and Malaria The VA may be dismissing important evidence that malaria continues to take a toll on Vietnam veterans. By Steven J. Lloyd When Jim Manuel talks about his life after Vietnam he seems at peace with himself, like a man looking back with new insight. Most of the problems he's experienced mirror those of the approximately 480,000 other Vietnam theater veterans who, according to the estimates of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). What is different, however, is that Manuel is one of o…
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Champva Terminal Cancer
Hello my husband is a 100% disabled veteran. About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. Yesterday, the cancer doctor at cancer care alliance in Seattle, informed my husband a myself that I probably have eight months or a little longer to live, I was wondering how champva will help out with home care, hospital bed, etc. also, would my husband's VA disability interfere with the two of us getting Social Security disability thank you
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Found My Bva Decision
Just found my BVA decision thought I would share it here just to see if anyone has any insight or deep thoughts on it. It might (but I doubt) be of help to someone, who knows? I have to assume that the rater who first rated me at thirty percent after reading this decision eitherr didn't read it or didn't read the rating manual. It specificly says I'm on dialysis which is a slam dunk 100%. Now if they would only quit dragging feet on sending me my new rating letter and a few dollars (about $90k) I would be a happy camper. http://www.va.gov/vetapp05/files4/0527657.txt Kirk
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Is There Any Accrued Interest?
Got a question. I realize if an initial claim is awarded and the new claim is say a year or two before the rating is awarded there is no interest payments. But, what about when the VARO calls a cue on itself and gives the award conceding an earlier effective date of say 30 years? Is there interest paid for those kind of long term retroactive payments? If so, where do I find the reg paragraph etc?
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To Berta, Please Help
Well thats exactly what happened. the military diagnosed me with ilioinguinal nerve neuroma and ended up giving me three hernia operations. I recieved a medical discharge because i could no longer perform my duties. When I went to the VA they did the exact same thing and gave me another hernia operation. this all happened in the 70's and early 80's. After seeing over forty doctors that only would prescribe meds and send me home I got lucky and this nurse practitioner sent me for a CT-Scan and found that my problem was completely different than what I was originally diagnosed with without even looking at my med records. She sent me back for a full MRI and the main VAMC imm…
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