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The Bush administration rejected a Dole-Shalala recommendation that the VA pay for lost earnings stop when veterans begin to draw social security. Veterans’ groups strongly opposed a drop in compensation in old age. The White House removed it before sending the package to Capitol Hill

Remember the second he or she calls your name, they are watching how you get out of the chair etc. If anything is bothering you with your health, now is the time to bring it up..do not make anything up, but complain about anything , pain etc..

John, Go to this site below, and download booklet...It'a for AO vets....print it out and read it, you may be able, if it's not on the presumptive list, to be secondary to an item on the presumptive list.. Have you taken the Agent Orange test? by the VA... Revised Agent Orange Handbook... September 5, 2006 VHA Handbook 1302.01, 9/5/06, Agent Orange Registry (AOR) Program Procedures To Include All Veterans Exposed To Agent Orange And Special Health Care Benefits For Vietnam Veterans' Children

If he was awarded 100% for anything other then unemployability.... the answer is yes....

The outgoing secertary of the Va made a statement that hypertension should be put on the presumtive list, a couple of months ago...I have been turned down for hypertension secondary to Diabetes...file it anyway because if it does get to be presumtive, you'll be paid back to you file date....

It's Pathetic....Had a Doctor who spoke such bad english at one of my c/p's I had to request a nurse to interpert what she was asking me.....

VA PHYSICIAN QUALIFICATIONS: Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama say their own investigation raises serious questions about Veterans Affairs Department claims that officials couldn't have known about a surgeon's troubling history before he was hired at an Illinois VA hospital. In a harshly worded letter to acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Gordon Mansfield on 11 OCT, the Illinois Democrats said their staffs easily found enough information to warrant a closer look at the qualifications of Dr. Jose Veizaga-Mendez. Veizaga-Mendez resigned from the Marion, Ill., VA hospital in August, shortly before the hospital suspended inpatient surgeries because of a spike in post-surgical deaths, reportedly from OCT 2006 to March of this year. Durbin has said he was told that nine people died at the Marion hospital during an unspecified six-month period when the typical mortality rate would have been two. He also has said that after hearing from Dr. Michael Kussman, a VA undersecretary, it is clear Veizaga-Mendez had some involvement with those surgeries. Veizaga-Mendez was hired in Marion even though he was barred from practicing in Massachusetts last year after accusations of grossly substandard care. "It appears the VA's efforts to discover the truth about Dr. Veizaga-Mendez, his past professional history, and the circumstances surrounding his license forfeiture were far from adequate and may have put the veterans seeking care at Marion in danger," the senators wrote. In a statement Thursday, the VA said it conducts a thorough background check that includes verification of professional credentials, competence, personal backgrounds and checks them against the national Practitioner Data Bank-Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank. But Durbin and Obama said Kussman and another VA undersecretary, Dr. Gerald Cross, had said it was impossible for the VA to know whether Veizaga-Mendez had accurately described why he had surrendered his license in Massachusetts. "A cursory check by our staff of publicly available information has cast doubt on the validity of that claim," they wrote. Some of the information was readily available on the website of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, the senators said. At the time the doctor was hired at Marion, information about medical malpractice payments he had made in 2004 and 2005, as well as the fact that he had been the subject of a hospital disciplinary action, were available on the website, they said.

I presently receive 20% each for my left leg and arm, and I wear a one piece brace on my left leg....this was given because of a stroke I had in 96, due to Agent Orange...Your going to have to get a letter from a doctor stating " In my best medical opinion Mr-----lou problems have manifested from his( Put in your approved disability here) and it is likely as not that the lou is a result of the (put in your approved disability)...GOOD LUCK....

How come the reporters never ask about the bad side of the va....."The claims side" :)

You have to check each state for taxes on your property. I investigated moving to Utah, and that state property tax is given based on your percentage...10%=10% off your property tax, up to 100%.

articles - agent orange Check the date you filed your claim- you may get a bonus just in time for Christmas COURT ORDERS VA TO AWARD 2 MONTHS OF ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OR ADDITIONAL BENEFITS TO 25,000 VIETNAM VETERANS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on December 10, 2002 in one of NVLSP’s cases, Lisesgang v. Secretary, that the effective date for diabetes claims first filed between May 8, 2001 and July 8, 2002 should be May 8, 2001 or one year before the claim is filed, whichever date is later and not July 9, 2001 as the VA had directed. The VA estimates that there are 25,000 of these claimants. (Claims first filed earlier than May 8, 2001 are governed by the Nehmer case and the effective date should usually be the date the claim was first filed or May 8, 2001, whichever is earlier.) Those affected are those Vietnam veterans or their survivors who first filed a claim for diabetes or death benefits related to diabetes between May 8, 2001 and July 8, 2002. The VA is paying all new or pending claims in accordance with the ruling and was ordered to automatically reopen the cases and pay two months of additional benefits to 25,000 veterans who had been assigned July 9, 2001 as the effective date for the award of benefits due to diabetes.

Congress should increase the compensation rates up to 25 percent as an interim and baseline future benefit for loss of quality of life, pending development and implementation of quality-of-life measure in the Rating Schedule. In particular, the measure should take into account the quality of life and other non-work-related effects of severe disabilities on veterans and family members.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry81.htm VETERANS DISARMAMENT ACT TO BAR VETS FROM OWNING GUNS By Larry Pratt September 22, 2007 NewsWithViews.comHundreds of thousands of veterans -- from Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom -- are at risk of being banned from buying firearms if legislation that is pending in Congress gets enacted. How? The Veterans Disarmament Act -- which has already passed the House -- would place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list. This is exactly what President Bill Clinton did over seven years ago when his administration illegitimately added some 83,000 veterans into the National Criminal Information System (NICS system) -- prohibiting them from purchasing firearms, simply because of afflictions like PTSD. The proposed ban is actually broader. Anyone who is diagnosed as being a tiny danger to himself or others would have his gun rights taken away ... forever. It is section 102((1)©(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names -- like the 83,000 records mentioned above -- will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. No wonder the Military Order of the Purple Heart is opposed to this legislation. The House bill, HR 2640, is being sponsored by one of the most flaming anti-Second Amendment Representatives in Congress: Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). Another liberal anti-gunner, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), is sponsoring the bill in the Senate. Proponents of the bill say that helpful amendments have been made so that any veteran who gets his name on the NICS list can seek an expungement. But whenever you talk about expunging names from the Brady NICS system, you’re talking about a procedure that has always been a long shot. Right now, there are NO EXPUNGEMENTS of law-abiding Americans’ names that are taking place under federal level. Why? Because the expungement process which already exists has been blocked for over a decade by a "funds cut-off" engineered by another anti-gunner, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY). So how will this bill make things even worse? Well, two legal terms are radically redefined in the Veterans Disarmament Act to carry out this vicious attack on veterans’ gun rights. One term relates to who is classified a "mental defective." Forty years ago that term meant one was adjudicated "not guilty" in a court of law by reason of insanity. But under the Veterans Disarmament Act, "mental defective" has been stretched to include anyone whom a psychiatrist determines might be a tiny danger to self or others. The second term is "adjudicate." In the past, one could only lose one's gun rights through an adjudication by a judge, magistrate or court -- meaning conviction after a trial. Adjudication could only occur in a court with all the protections of due process, including the right to face one's accuser. Now, adjudication in HR 2640 would include a finding by "a court, commission, committee or other authorized person" (namely, a psychiatrist). Forget the fact that people with PTSD have the same violent crime rate as the rest of us. Vietnam vets with PTSD have had careers and obtained permits to carry firearms concealed. It will now be enough for a psychiatric diagnosis (a "determination" in the language of the bill) to get a veteran barred &shy;for life &shy; from owning guns. Think of what this bill would do to veterans. If a robber grabs your wallet and takes everything in it, but gives you back $5 to take the bus home, would you call that a financial enhancement? If not, then we should not let HR 2640 supporters call the permission to seek an expungement an enhancement, when prior to this bill, veterans could not legitimately be denied their gun rights after being diagnosed with PTSD. Veterans with PTSD should not be put in a position to seek an expungement. They have not been convicted (after a trial with due process) of doing anything wrong. If a veteran is thought to be a threat to self or others, there should be a real trial, not an opinion (called a diagnosis) by a psychiatrist. If members of Congress do not hear from soldiers (active duty and retired) in large numbers, along with the rest of the public, the Veterans Disarmament Act -- misleadingly titled by Rep. McCarthy as the NICS Improvement Amendments Act -- will send this message to veterans: "No good deed goes unpunished." <LI style="CLEAR: both"> . __,_._,___

" if the doctor won't give a medical opnion".... and he is a vietnam vet, a outside doctor or va doctor is required by law to write the veteran a letter outlining the disease he is treating him for, for the veterans filing of his claim....see booklet below...also get the medical examiner to write on the death certificate..."has died from...............do to Agent Orange complications" these words the va is looking for to compensate the widow.... Revised Agent Orange Handbook... September 5, 2006 VHA Handbook 1302.01, 9/5/06, Agent Orange Registry (AOR) Program Procedures To Include All Veterans Exposed To Agent Orange And Special Health Care Benefits For Vietnam Veterans' Children

Thanks for the info....I'll look into this info and see what I can use out of it....

I was granted "0" % for my Diabetic Retinopathy, secondary to diabetes type 2, for my eyes..Title 38 only has corrective vision impairment as eyeglasses.... Their is nothing in 38 for this disease, and glasses will not cure this problem (Broken blood vessels around perimeter of both eyes) anyone have any ideas.

This booklet requires a private doctor or va doctor, to write a letter for you, about the disease he is treating you for in support for your claim.....download it and understand the info in it....The first time I asked my Va doctor to write me a letter...his response was "We don't write letters" after presenting this booklet page requiring him do do so, he called the chief doctor in the hospital...all I got was "What do you want me to do".... Revised Agent Orange Handbook... September 5, 2006 VHA Handbook 1302.01, 9/5/06, Agent Orange Registry (AOR) Program Procedures To Include All Veterans Exposed To Agent Orange And Special Health Care Benefits For Vietnam Veterans' Children