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ptsd 100% PTSD Scheduler and Work?
I have been discussing the subject question with a friend. If you are 100% for PTSD does it make you "unemployable"? I realize that it would be difficult to work, but does the 100% PTSD rating prevent you from working? Thank you. BobGeorge
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100% - What Privileges Do Vets Get? Spouse Medical? On Base? Not Sure!
Hi all: Can someone tell me what privileges a 100% rated vet gets? I think my spouse will have her medical covered entirely, but where will VA send her? Will she go to any outside provider? I'm not sure if CHAMPUS plays any role in this. Do Vets receiving 100% get on base privileges? Any help would be appreciated, -: )
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PTSD 70% TDIU P&T
I'm absolutely terrified that at some point I'll lose my 70% TDIU P&T when I reach eligibility age for SSI. I know that each budget period the issue comes up to eliminate TDIU at retirement age to save money. Thusfar the Veterans Service organizations have protested and older Veterans, like me, approaching retirement age can breath a brief sigh of relief. I'm 60 years old now, and live in absolute fear and angst that in a few short years I'll literally end up homeless and destitute, my wife and college age child would lose benefits as well. I know no one has a crystal ball, but I am becoming more obsessed with contacting my service officer with the American Legion and…
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ptsd Personality Disorder But Not Really
Long story short I filed for ptsd in 2004 and was denied in 2005. The doc that did my C&P stated I had a personality disorder and a she gave me a GAF of 38 even though I was working everyday in Corp enviroment for 6 years prior to the C&P lol . I filed again in 2012 for PTSD after getting a DX by two private docs stating I have ptsd. The VA stood by its findings again in 2014 stating I had a personality disorder. The VA basically stated due to the fact that I got into a fight with another Marine when I was a private and I got a divorce two years later I must have had a personality disorder prior to me entering the service.The really nutty thing is the doc that …
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Advice please...
I don't know how to ask this so I will just post and see how it goes. I had an experience in service and it stuck with me, I don't want to ask service buddies for a buddy letter (the guys that were actually there are all successful and I feel shame asking them to help me). I recently post on our ships facebook ( hey you guys remember that time) group and 47 people responded to that post and confirmed the story. Would the facebook response be good enough for a buddy letter? Took me a six pack to build the courage to make this post. I'm thinking I might just give up on trying to make a claim as its taking so much energy to actually talk about this. V/R, …
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Bump to 100% P&T in 8 days from C&P review
Hey all just want to share what I think of is good news, even though I still have to sit and wait. On 8//16/2018 I had a C&P review for my PTSD which was 70% with 10% Tinnitus rating. I was initially rated in 2013 and I had made no requests for adjustments. VA just mandated this C&P. Today, 8/24/2018 ebenefits was up and down all day so I could not really read anything on my statuses until 6 pm PST. I went in and I am, according to ebenefits, at 100% and in the letters I see my rating is P&T. I am over the moon. This RO must be the rocket docket or the QTC doc really wrote a solid case for the bump. or both. Either way I am now in the …
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Fast PTSD decision and what it means
Hi all, I am new here and have asked several questions and will probably ask many more. I have written out more lengthy posts about my history so i will forgo that in this one. In going through my records after a C&P review last week, I remembered something that seems quite different than the experiences of other vets with PTSD SC ratings. It took less than 4 months from the time I had my initial C&P until I got rated and paid at 70% PTSD, 10% Tinnitus This was in 2013. Timeline: Nexus events: 1984 Enlistment ended Oct 1989 Applied at local VARO and VAMC Jan 1990. Denied help. even said they could not find that I served…
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ptsd PTSD rating difference combat/non combat
Greetings. Got good help here before, back for more! Got my rating for ptsd last year at 50%. Wasnt happy with it for a wide variety of reasons. Anyways, left it alone for a while until i logged onto my ebenefits, and found they listed my ptsd as "noncombat" related. Problem is everything stemmed from my involvement with the iraqi invasion (oif1). I told docs this through c&p process, had outside evidence and support. After this discovery, i met with my VSO and explaind my discontent and confusion why i was rated noncombat. She tells me that i need to have a CIB or CAB on my record. I told her that i was Artillery, and you dont get a CIB unless you are infantry. …
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Advise regarding increase in rating for PTSD
Good Morning Hadit members, I have been reading the forum for a while now and would like to thank all the members for helping out with the many questions and concerns veterans have when it comes to disability claims, I recently put in a claim for an increase in my PTSD rating on 03/14/18 (Currently rated 80% combined - 70% PTSD, 10% tinnitus, 10% lower back, 10% GERD) due to the severity of my PTSD symptoms and how it is keeping me from maintaining substantial gainful employment. I left my job on 03/12/18 and was put on FMLA leave by my employer, on the FMLA form filled out by my VA psychiatrist it states that my condition is ongoing and that I am unable to work due to m…
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Had to sign a PTSD Contract today at my VA Therapist LCSW S-4 Anyone familiar with it?
I have had Chronic Combat PTSD for years, Just won my claim for it about 3 1/2 years ago.I been going to my VA Therapist ever since twice a week for a year and now its bi weekly the last 2 years. and staying at the bi-weekly beings I live about 62 miles from the VAMC. Went to my regular sessions today. Ok today my VA Therapist she ask me about the CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) And she ask me if I wanted to do this therapy? I ask what is it? & I said yes if it will help me with the Anxiety/Depression and Cope Skills and help me feel better for me and not put my family through a lot of un- necessary crap from me. she said she could not promise me…
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Effective date for PTSD and Reevaluation
Hello, I have a rating decision for PTSD 70%,IBS 30% and Tinnitus 10% the rating decision was 6/23/2015 and the va decision has effective date of 10/29/2013(FDC),I was moved from TDRL to PDRL at 70% due to Combat related PTSD. My question is when the VA revaluates me,which shows scheduled for June/2020 as per VA letter ,will the rating be considered stable from the effective date or from the decision date? Does the DBQ the DOD did to move me to PDRL stating my PTSD is stable and not likely to improve have any weight on the VA reevaluation? I currently see VA Psychiatrist monthly and have since before being rated Other ratings: 50% SA(secondary to PTSD)…
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