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Request for Reconsideration isn't a good bet, it's not a part of the Appeals process and it burns through your 1 year to appeal time.
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Just wanted to update y'all with a bit of news. I called the SSA, they said it shows that my Med Records were sent to the VA December 22nd.....so, progress at least!
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VA hates giving PTSD dx's. PTSD is permanent Physiological damage caused by Pschological Trauma. Hard to lower a Vets Comp years later when they have brain damage, but much easier to toss a "adjustment disorder" dx at them and then try to reduce ya 5 years down the line. Get a new C&P, fight to get one done by a VA Psychologist who knows his salt
Good Luck
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LongTooth,
Just got done goin through all your posts. So happy for how well you've handled everything so far. Please allow me to pitch in a few measly words for you.
Mental Health, believe it or not, pre 9/11 we "crazies" were treated for "Behavioral" issues, so your information may be sitting in St Louis still, send them amother request for "Any and All" records of your Behavioral Health. I had a sweet old Sergeant down in Ft. Benning's Medical Records Division tell me that plum little secret.
Also, as someone who also received a OTH Discharge i also wasn't allowed to get VA Health Bennefits, until after they Service Connected me for my "Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood". 50% SC Disability gets you 100% FREE Health Care minus Dental.
SSDI was also a slam dunk for me. I got extremely lucky, the Psychologiat who did my Exam was a Vet! 3 months amd i got a year of Retro in my checking account while on vacation with my Retro from going from 50-70% January of '17. The VA even extended my Retro from my first Claim back to June of 2014. Sometimes, the VA does apply the lube, after they F@#k ya over.
Keep up your good fight brother, i will be rooting for ya
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Casmaster,
Any updates? I have this too, but i DO receive SSDI so i am hopeful it will help with my TDIU claim....
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On Sunday, October 09, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Kinfolk said:
You have entirely too much free time on your hands brother.
It's called helping those who helped you. Go educate yourself and try to expand past your own limited vision of what a Veteran Should do, not what they Can do.
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2 hours ago, jamescripps2 said:
I am at "M" +1k and have won hundreds of claims for other vets besides my own multiple claims. I have never paid more than a $30.00 copay for a IOM and never recommended that expense for anyone else. Any medical professional can write the opinion and therefore fulfill the requirement of the nexus without emptying the piggy bank so long as the letter is written in proper format. That is the reason to furnish the outline. A vet does not need to be rich enough to pay large sums of money for medical opinions. An obscure little known local doctors opinion just might carry more probative value than a well known frequent flier who is known for writing many IOMs.
just my 2 cents, you can look up my AO CONUS win and see how the judge respected my $30 IOMs
crippsbvadec.pdf the judge considered my IOMs as overwhelming.
Alllllll irrelevent. You apparantly don't know what you are talking about one whit. Any "local doctor" you can find would be EASILY countered by a VA Dox, simply because the VA does the Numbers of Letters after your Name Game, hell, they wouldn't even have to leave their In-House doctors. Any Dr with one more degree could EASILY be found to refute a IMO. The reason that there are doctors who haven't been called out as Frauds in the system too often is because they spent a LOT of money getting all thise letters behind their names. They are sometimes even Vets themselves. So to come in here and tell people they dont NEED such and such of ANYTHING is completely what we are doing here at Hadit.com
Educate yourself before spreading your bullshit advice, any one that tells a Veteran to not go all the way or go home is a phukin Shill for the VA.
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3 hours ago, jamescripps2 said:
John, type into your web browser
usva101.0rg
click on nexus letter, print the two page document.
Copy the case that I gave you in the above post. http://www.va.gov/vetapp14/Files6/1449192.txt Highlight the text pertaining to the doctors medical opinion in the case, therefore simplifying and saving your doctor's valuable time.
Take the copies to a private doctor and pay the co pay using your medicare if you have medicare coverage. If not, expect to pay about 80 to 100 bucks cash for a medical opinion. I have found that about 50% of the doctors will write an opinion if you ask and make it easy on them by furnishing an example,"outline", and another opinion close to what you are contending.
Ask the doc if he can concur with what the examiner in the BVA prior decision is saying. If so, ask if he will write you a letter complying to the nexus letter example that you are furnishing him from the usva101.org website. After filing the claim as a FDC, for OSA sit back and wait on the C&P exam.
I am expecting a RO decision pretty soon for an increase in diabetes because my VA diabetic doc limited and regulated my activities. So as not to muddy the waters with too many issues, when I get that decision I intend to file on OSA as secondary to Diabetes related to AO exposure, heart disease and the prescribed medications thereof, using the exact evidence that I just handed to you.
Good luck to you old friend!
P.S. if you really want to hit a home run, get two medical opinions concurring. No problem if you have medicare part B to pick up the tab. Not a big expense if you don't.
Not necessarily....he would be better off finding a Physician who actually writes IMO's for the VA. the terminology is EXTREMELY important, and the VA often uses the slightest excuse to discredit any IMO outside of their Employ
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i would ask for a update but i suspect with such a large back pay amount they're purposefully not being attentive to signing off on your case....can't remember if you have a lawyer or not, but that was one of my Pros of getting one for myself, they're gonna be just as impatient for me to get my money as I am lol. so if you hear anything let us know!
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2 hours ago, Buck52 said:
When VSO makes Mistakes like this its time to fire them & either work your claim yourself or find a decent and honest hard working VSO that puts your well being first.
jmo
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All correct. VSO's that tell you to stop fighting the VA are Shills. Go somewhere else, a VSO don't have to live with that decision for the rest of their lives, we DO!
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On 10/3/2016 at 8:07 AM, Vync said:
You're right about bonus benefits with P&T, but it is still possible to have exams. The VA is unlikely to bring back P&T just to do a re-eval, but it could happen.
gladly stand corrected, just rarely rarely rarely heard of it, kind of a kick in the vet's balls to rip him off champ va, take his kids college money, all on a crack pot chance the VA made a "miscalculation" or something of that magnitude. but then again, if said things weren't at least expected, the need for Hadit.com wouldn't be there :P
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C&P(Compensation and Pension)Exams
Sub-post, Mental Health/PTSD Exams
(means you'll see a Psychologist or MH "Expert")
Most of us here on Hadit.com LOVE to see C&P's. it is practically a GUARANTEE that we never see exams that are exactly the same. i believe the reason most of us look at these things is to help you all ease your own tensions, waiting for the Results of a C&P is no where near as intense as waiting for the Rating decision based of said exams. when you all come here, asking us to look, we do it for you, and us, because we are all still fighting as well. we learn, from your flaws and chaotic whirlpool of hope and despair, but we try to calm that storm for you. it's really rather sad that only us Veteran Civilians can give as much support and attention unlike those programs that claim to be lookin out for us. if Hadit.com was where ALL Veterans came to get the help they needed i believe our Veteran Community as a whole would be a lot better,but that isn't the case, so we make do with what we have. and what do we have you ask? Each other, that's it. just to the left and right of each one of us is someone still fighting a horrible system that seems not only to benefit, but THRIVE on denying a majority of us the Compensation's we've been guaranteed by Law.
So, what's the point of this little post you may ask? well, look at it this way, those of us here, those of us who fight, not just for ourselves, but for each other, we have limited time. we DO have to fight our own cases as well, and we have to garner enough Information as we can.....so i despise when people waste my phukin time. and even more, i despise how they waste my fellow Shield brethren's time, it seriously feels to me as those who waste our time, literally waste moments of our Life. you know, that highly limited thing that we have so little of.
Why am i posting this in the C&P Forum you may ask?
Because, it is HERE, where it is the SIMPLEST to weed out the Scum.....those who would manipulate and twist all that WE do, for their own gains. How is it so simple you may be asking yourselves? well, lets take a look see at what exactly a C&P exam actually IS. and no i don't mean the fancy VA tracking numbers and Military-ish style jargon. i mean, what as LAYPEOPLE we must understand it as.
Compensation and Pension- The underlined really only deals with us Vets here on Hadit.com, it's for those of us, who were broken, but since we signed a Contract, held up our Right Hand, and Swore an Oath, we are COMPENSATED for Damages that are based on a wonky azz math system that pretty much guarantees that you'll be Compensated, no matter how Slight or All Encompassing your injuries are.
Mental Health Exams are ALWAYS conducted by MH professionals, personally, i wouldn't accept anything less than a PhD holding Psychologist, they actually get their Doctorates in Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders. most of us have been to them, SEVERAL times, always poking, prodding, asking questions that we deem unnecessary, and lots of times the Exams themselves seem to be rather scatterbrained. what one Doc does in St. Louis Mo is not even close to the tests ran by old Doc in Seattle Wa.....why is this? who knows? but the general theory of ALL MH medical evaluations is the same. they're not Medical Exams, they are FORENSIC Exams. which means, that PhD Doc ain't your buddy, he's a COP.
they need to shock you, destabilize you, rile you up and see what is REALLY in there, if you're such a GOOD faker that you can fool a well trained Doc, then that is in and of itself another form of Psychosis, you all wonder why sooooo few cases of Fraud cause the termination of Compensation Benefits? because most of these "shifty" Docs are REALLY good at their jobs. even the way you react to how they react tells them many things. there is a common misconception of "buiding to deny" a case or something of that order, but for MH, not quite so. when it comes to MH, the VA HAS to be sure, it HAS to base all their decisions off of the Law, and MH is one area, where i believe we get very very very little Frauding of the system. the VA needs it's own Doc's, because lets face a solid fact, as a Treating Doc your own personal Doc is caught up in your well being and health, a VA Rating Officer has to know that what Information they get is 100% legit. i don't blame them, MH is only Treatable, not Curable. pretty much translates to benefits for life, i.e. Compensation on a Tax Free Check
if you come here, and post your C&P Exam, and you think we're gonna sugar coat it and say try harder, you're sadly mistaken. this is my Callout, if you come here, looking to waste my time, and the time of the Veterans who kept me sane, who filled me with Hope, and even more, gave me the Knowledge i needed to win my Claims, i'm gonna shame you into Obscurity. we don't have time for you, if you post a C&P that you even THINK may cause some of us to think you're a liar, you better go find a Lawyer to look at your Shite, because you are NOT welcome here. i will find you, you can't lie to me, if you post your information, as i have done, as i have opened and bared my soul to my fellow Vets, and i see your Cancerous lies, i will call you out, and haunt your Posts. the few Rotten Apples such as yourself have caused a backlash against Broken Veterans on orders of magnitude that are both offensive and onerous in themselves. i would rather see a piece of Shite like you get your benefits, if it meant EVERY Vet who needed them right now got them, but that isn't how our System works, so you ain't gettin Shite from me.....
Carry on Shield Siblings....
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BIG WIN! now, take a breath, and pick your Shield back up, still have a few more waves to surf over. gotta get that P&T. you may irrationally think it's "greedy" or some sheep dip. but you have to fight, because every win for you is a win for Us. everyone still fighting and those who finished their fight by dyin first.
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now it's time to work HARDER brother, gotta get to the 100% P&T, so you can give your Son a College education rather some shiny baubles under a Tree, Thought that too is Awesome
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pretty much a C&P exam is not a "medical" exam, it's a Forensic exam. so look at the difference of the two, what's Forensic? Law, which means the doc's #1 job is to protect the VA by being paid by said VA to weed out Fraud, with a capital F. FRAUD. so, it's REQUIRED he look at your records, and his OPINION on your Doctors opinion is a for determining Fraud. you know, to give his medical opinion within the constraints of the Law, Service Connected, Nexus, and %.....that's the Game
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On 9/20/2016 at 1:12 PM, Vync said:
Rating reductions in brief, aside from reductions involving fraud:
5 years = they cannot reduce unless there is sustained improvement
10 years = SC status is protected for the disability
20 years = The % is protectedIt sounds like you are on the five year plan. In 2019 they will re-eval and determine if your 100% rating will be reduced or if it will be continued (and probably made permanent).
If you become gainfully employed, you likely will be reduced.
If your MH physician states that you are not likely to improve, they might bump you over to permanent.
If you are SSDI, they might bump you over to permanent.
Permanent and Total applies to this as well, being found P&T literally means no Exams and bonus bennies
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On 9/30/2016 at 8:11 AM, floridanurse said:
This is not rocket science, the only reason that it takes them a little bit, (In my case, 9 months), I think is, because they have so many fraudulent claims clogging up the system. If you have a good case, have all your records or can prove clear markers, are getting treatment, be honest at the C&P, then you claim should go just like mine did!
Don't mean to completely Rain on your Parade, but this misleading statement is part of the Problem, not the Solution. by spreading out the general "Welfare Queen" idea of the Reganomics Era is a SLAP to the face of EVERY Veteran, whether they be Rated at 0% - 100% or NO SC at ALL. i would gladly allow 1,000,000 Scum into our system than have 1 more Phukin Vet be denied to the COMPENSATION he is Legally Entitled to. far cheaper than allowing all of those not in the system to clog up civilian hospitals. because you need to realize, we are NOT in a good place when we finally swallow our pride, and ask for the help that is OURS, but gated behind a Government Agency that's Reputation is on par with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. no Claim is Fradulent till won on merits of Fraud young lady. take that to heart. the Law itself guarantees us this right to compensation, we should not have to bend to knee to beg, i promise, far far FAR more damage to keep our fellow Shield Brothers and Sisters out of the Trenches with us.
Congrats, Get all you are Owed to the letter of the Law, never Less, and never More.
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On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Buck52 said:
I never understood this.
When a veteran is denied and the obvious is they never read his/her evidence that they submitted and was denied now the veteran NOD's but can't use the evidence they already submitted b/c on NOD THEY require New & Material Evidence now how stupid is that BS.
Anyone care to comment?
My opinion
Any new evidence will help you with a NOD. Mine was just a Voc Expert who testifies in VA, SSDI and Railroad Benefits Courts. And even though it sounds silly and anti-progress, i think at this point in time with the games the VA is playing with fast rejections and lowballs have FILLED the frikin Appeals Dockets, we should maybe hold back just ONE bit of evidence, maybe because we kind of already know lowballing is SoP for the bastiches, just have that one bit of evidence ready for your NOD. Once again, just a opinion, and a path i'm taking on my next claim.
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Robert Friedman & Assosciates out of Everett WA. They haven't blown smoke up my ass or ignored my emails or calls at all. And were pretty hungry for my case.
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Mental Health Disabilitss are Rated on a Wonky ass system, it's about hitting certain criteria, and thats just based off of a Schedular medical rating point of view. Being able to maintain Substantial Gainful Employment is another, all Vets have a inferred Claim for TDIU if they aren't able to maintain SGO when they apply for bennefits. Go get em
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Bear in mind, Opinion.....
I see 70%Schedular,100%TDIU and the big one, Service Connected.
However, these are just guesses, we can't tell you much unless you're willing to put up a Redacted copy of your C&P's. Cover all personal Info and copy paste here in the Forums.
Good Luck
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19 minutes ago, sunnyh said:
I watched the prep for decision change to prep for notification and completion date change to today's date.
And Poof claim disappeared.
It reappeared under historical claims.
My rating is unchanged on letters section.
Sorry to hear that, get your stuff together, take your time, you have 12 months to file a NoD, buck up, you'll win in time
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