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RyanE

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  • Service Connected Disability
    60%
  • Branch of Service
    Combat Engineer Army

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  1. IMO, if you have your medical records from active duty that have complaints of sleep issues and it is documented from your time on active duty and you currently have sleep issues (regardless of what they are now) you should apply again and submit all available evidence. It would probably benefit you to talk to your sleep Dr. and show them your military records and have him correlated the beginning of your sleep issues to the problems you have now and put it in a letter for you as to relate the beginning of symptoms to your current conditions and submit that letter along with your evidence. If you have medical problem that started in service, was aggravated in service or complaints of the issues while in service and you have post service complaints and diagnosis that are related they are supposed to give the benefit of the doubt as relates to service connection to the veteran. The VA will most likley fight it but IMO I would file.
  2. Hi, I have been rated at 30% for PTSD since 2005 (60% total). In 2015 I lost my job and after a year social security found me eligible for social security disability benefits based on PTSD. I have not worked since. In 2018 I filed a claim for increases on several things but not for PTSD. At the same time, I was trying to get the VA to add depressive order to my list of service-connected items as I had the diagnosis for it. The VA then re-evaluated me for PTSD and said I was still at 30% and denied all my increases. I had never told the VA or the rater about social security finding me disabled due to PTSD. I appealed the VA decisions regarding the increases they denied me and now the VA is requesting my social security disability findings so, I went ahead and sent them in through ebenifits. The VA sent me a letter stating that " we completed your request for a higher level review, and discovered an error in our duty to assist in gathering evidence in support of your claim". What are the chances that the VA will raise my PTSD to 100% upon finding out that I cannot and have not been able to work because of the problems I have from PTSD . Also, is the VA supposed to address these kinds of issues if the find them? thanks for any thoughts. I never wanted to mess with my PTSD rating for fear of the VA screwing up as usual and that is why I never asked for an increase or told them about the social security disability based on PTSD.
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