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Hello Brusco4x4, Welcome to VA Disability Compensation Benefits Forums - HadIt.com Veterans. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Brusco4x4 joined on the 07/30/2019. View Member
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Hello Stranded, Welcome to VA Disability Compensation Benefits Forums - HadIt.com Veterans. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Stranded joined on the 07/30/2019. View Member
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Hello Cedric D. Brown, Welcome to VA Disability Compensation Benefits Forums - HadIt.com Veterans. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Cedric D. Brown joined on the 07/30/2019. View Member
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Hello Ralph harrington, Welcome to VA Disability Compensation Benefits Forums - HadIt.com Veterans. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Ralph harrington joined on the 07/30/2019. View Member
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Hello Roscoe reno singletary, Welcome to VA Disability Compensation Benefits Forums - HadIt.com Veterans. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Roscoe reno singletary joined on the 07/30/2019. View Member
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Hello Steven thompson, Welcome to VA Disability Compensation Benefits Forums - HadIt.com Veterans. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Steven thompson joined on the 07/30/2019. View Member
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Hello, Everyone: Thanks for having me aboard! I'm looking forward to meeting new vets and talking with you about our mutual interest: VA disability claims and appeals. I'm Jon Macintosh, former Army Ranger with 1/75, now a disabled vet who assists other vets and volunteers my time on different issues. Last year I published a book on how to prepare, file and maintain a VA disability claim. In time, I'll share my knowledge of the claims and appeals process with interested vets. Hopefully, we can learn some new things that will assist us in the VA benefits system. I also have a companion website with email newsletters for interested vets. I wish all of you t…
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Do Not Post Claims Questions In This Forum - Post In VA Claims and Research This forum is just to introduce yourself, and folks may not see your claims question if you post it here.
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Hi All, USAF retiree here, 24 years. Retired in 2004. I've tried to get rated for depression a couple times but shot down and due to the depression I give up. Trying again though as I'm now on some better meds. Hoping I can find some good advice and assistance here. Thanks and God bless you all
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Hello and thank you for this forum. NOTICE: Please please please read this entire post about me and my dire situation, my wife died in September 2017, my name wasn’t on deed and my stepdaughter threw me out on the street, thankfully my biological son took my into his one bedroom apartment, which is where I’m currently at, my claim is flagged, terminal, homeless, financial hardship, and advanced aged, yes I’m blessed to still have a biological son who has helped me beyond what I could ever have asked for, as I wasn’t a good father to my biological son, however he has overlooked my history of alcoholism as I’ve now been sober since 1987, he helped me enroll in VA h…
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More news on the mind control front. If you recall Dr. Christine Pierce from the Kansas city VA ask for volunteers for a brain implant and I accepted. This thing can read your thoughts and make dreams reality when you go to sleep. They can also get you killed if you talk about it on Facebook I haven’t tested that part yet but I plan to soon. They got me hooked back on math using it by using carrier waves sent to the brain.
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I retired after 20 honorable years as a SCPO in the USN. I filed a BDD claim as a Purple Heart recipient back in May with a retirement date of 31 October 2020. I have about 36 line items I'm claiming for service connection. Being in the great state of NY I have received 3 exams - PTSD/Hearing/Sinitius/Chronic Rhinitis. They state there are no providers in my area and had to request SAS appointments. Today I received an award for 10% for Tinnitus - Nothing for PTSD/or Sinitius as they have all been deferred due to examination which I've had for these two specifically. I assume this is normal due to COVID - Why didn't they award the other two…
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Hi Everyone, USN 62-66 EN2 , Da Nang 1965-66. Been lurking for awhile and decided to come aboard. Trying to understand that mysterious word VA. bbirder2
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Defense Bill Passage and Bladder Cancer
rebabevets posted a question in VA Disability Compensation Benefits Claims Research Forum,
I already get compensation for bladder cancer for Camp Lejeune Water issue, now that it is added to Agent Orange does it mean that the VA should pay me the difference between Camp Lejeune and 1992 when I retired from the Marine Corps or do I have to re-apply for it for Agent Orange, or will the VA look at at current cases already receiving bladder cancer compensation. I’m considered 100% Disabled Permanently- 16 replies
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Ddsr posted a question in VA Disability Compensation Benefits Claims Research Forum,
The 5, 10, 20 year rules...
Five Year Rule) If you have had the same rating for five or more years, the VA cannot reduce your rating unless your condition has improved on a sustained basis. All the medical evidence, not just the reexamination report, must support the conclusion that your improvement is more than temporary.
Ten Year Rule) The 10 year rule is after 10 years, the service connection is protected from being dropped.
Twenty Year Rule) If your disability has been continuously rated at or above a certain rating level for 20 or more years, the VA cannot reduce your rating unless it finds the rating was based on fraud. This is a very high standard and it's unlikely the rating would get reduced.
If you are 100% for 20 years (Either 100% schedular or 100% TDIU - Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability or IU), you are automatically Permanent & Total (P&T). And, that after 20 years the total disability (100% or IU) is protected from reduction for the remainder of the person's life. "M-21-1-IX.ii.2.1.j. When a P&T Disability Exists"
At 55, P&T (Permanent & Total) or a few other reasons the VBA will not initiate a review. Here is the graphic below for that. However if the Veteran files a new compensation claim or files for an increase, then it is YOU that initiated to possible review.
NOTE: Until a percentage is in place for 10 years, the service connection can be removed. After that, the service connection is protected.
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Example for 2020 using the same disability rating
1998 - Initially Service Connected @ 10%
RESULT: Service Connection Protected in 2008
RESULT: 10% Protected from reduction in 2018 (20 years)
2020 - Service Connection Increased @ 30%
RESULT: 30% is Protected from reduction in 2040 (20 years)- 53 replies
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broncovet posted an answer to a question,
While the BVA has some discretion here, often they "chop up claims". For example, BVA will order SERVICE CONNECTION, and leave it up to the VARO the disability percent and effective date.
I hate that its that way. The board should "render a decision", to include service connection, disability percentage AND effective date, so we dont have to appeal "each" of those issues over then next 15 years on a hamster wheel.
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Finally Won...NOW WHAT?
Ztmiller8 posted a question in Appealing Your Veterans Compensation Disability Claims NOD, DRO, BVA, USCAVC,
Finally heard back that I received my 100% Overall rating and a 100% PTSD rating Following my long appeal process!
My question is this, given the fact that my appeal was on the advanced docket and is an “Expedited” appeal, what happens now and how long(ish) is the process from here on out with retro and so forth? I’ve read a million things but nothing with an expedited appeal status.
Anyone deal with this situation before? My jump is from 50 to 100 over the course of 2 years if that helps some. I only am asking because as happy as I am, I would be much happier to pay some of these bills off!- 18 replies
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Joey Ross posted an answer to a question,
I told reviewer that I had a bad C&P, and that all I wanted was a fair shake, and she even said, that was what she was all ready viewed for herself. The first C&P don't even reflect my Treatment in the VA PTSD clinic. In my new C&P I was only asked about symptoms, seeing shit, rituals, nightmares, paying bills and about childhood, but didn't ask about details of it. Just about twenty question, and nothing about stressor,
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