MyCorps

Veterans, Greetings. You will never know how helpful the information in this forum has been over the years. Your assistance and feedback helped me get rated @70% in 2015. Since then, I qualified for VRE and am about to finish a Masters degree. Truthfully, however, my employment situation has been a huge struggle with my earning beings around $9,000 per year. That is another story though. I need to throw something out here for feedback and thoughts (in general). I was looking through records with respect to past claims the VA denied (1995, 2007, 2008) prior to the 2015 approval. I separated from my beloved Marine Corps in 1994 and put a claim in several months later. One injury (knee) was denied along with the others. I grabbed copies of this particular injury during the SEPS process and still have them. I submitted them in 2015 and received a 10% rating. I read about CUE claims, case law, and VA Appeals on the subject however, this seems to be murky, situation specific, or rare to get approved. I said what the heck and submitted the CUE Claim, with the aforementioned evicence (denial letter 1995, approval 2015, and oroginal medical records) and laid the case out in writing. The V.A. had access to my personnel records in 1995 when they denied but approved in 2015 with no new evidence. Here is what was different, I never received an exam in 1995, they just said no. I further read the V.A., back then anyway, had no "duty to assist" but today it is different or do I miusunderstand? Is this a potential CUE claim? Either way, I took a swing!