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I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANY ONE RECEIVED A TBI TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY LETTER MARCH OF 2009. THE LETTER WAS TO VETERANS RATED FOR TBI. IT WAS ABOUT A RETRO PAYMENT.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANY ONE GOT A RETRO PAYMENT YET ON THIS ISSUE.THE NEW EVALUATION CRITERIA BECAME EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 2008 ACCORDING TO THE LETTER.
i SENT IN THE PAPER WORK NEVER HEARD BACK FROM THE VA.
THX
GRT
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I DO NOT LIKE LINISPORIL AT ALL. I STOPPED TAKING IT FOR ONE DAY AND THE HACKING COUGH STOPPED ALSO I BELIEVE IT CAUSED MY SINUS PROBLEMS RUNNY NOSE BAD SMELL IN MY NOSE AND IT CAUSED PHLEGM TO BUILD UP IN MY LUNGS i AM GOING TO SEE IF MY DOCTOR CAN CHANGE THIS OUT. I TAKE PROPANOL GEMFIBROZIL AND ATENLOL TO. ALL THE ABOVE SYMPTOMS STOPPED WHEN I DISCONTINUED LISNIPORIL BUT THEN I GOT PAINS IN MY CHEST.If you take Lisinopril and have a dry hacking cough especially when you lay down you need to talk to your Doctor and try something else. The VA gives Veterans lisinopril cause it is cheap. However for many it is not a good med. I had it and read on internet that as many as 70% develop this cough told my Doc and was switched to losartin
I am sharing this and by all means it is my experience and my opinion.
THX
GRT
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I REALLY NEVER LOOKED AT THE CONTRACT AND NOW ITS TO LATEgrent,
If this is an actual lawyer or firm, what did your contract state ?
How much will it cost you to get out of the agreement ?
THE VA JUST CONTACTED ME DOOMS DAY HAS ARRIVED
VARO WANTS TO KNOW IF WANT A VIDEO FEED FOR BVA HEARING ////// THE VARO TOLD ME THIS WOULD SPEED THE PROCESS UP
OR DO I WANT A WASHINGTON DC HEARING FOR BVA
DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO AT THE MOMENT
WILL WAIT TO HERE FROM HAD IT FORUM
THX
GRT
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LOCAL VARO HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ME DOOMS DAY HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!!.
LOCAL VARO WANTS TO KNOW IF I WANT A VIDEO CONF VIDEO FEED AT THE LOCAL VARO FOR MY BVA OR-------- DO I WANT A REGULAR HEARING IN WASHINGTON DC??
WHATS THE BEST WAY TO PROCEED TOWARD MY BVA HEARING. THEY TOLD ME VIDEO CONFERENCES ONLY HELD ONCE A YEAR.
. THE VARO TOLD ME VIDEO CONF AT THE VARO WOULD " SPEED THE PROCESS UP" WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM DENIED? AFTER THIS?
MY LAWYER DOES NOT CLUE ME IN ON ANYTHING AND IM TO FAR DOWN THE ROAD NOW TO SWITCH LAWYERS.
ANY RECOMMENDATIONS HERE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
THX
GRT
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I have a question on revokation of Power of Attorney or POA.
When a veteran is firing his lawyer in the letter to the lawyer does the veteran or should the veteran list the reasons why he is letting his lawyer go,
If you could answer my question that would be great. Thanks again for every ones help. Also i plan to send the letter green card return receipt to the law firm..
I believe one letter goes to the lawyer and one goes to the local VARO holding the veterans POA. If I remember right.
Thks.
grt
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OKAY PETE ILL SEND THE LAWYER A LETTER AND LEAVE THE FILE WITH THE TIGER TEAM I FIGURE MY RETRO IS ABOUT 400, $ 490,000 IN BACK RETROI only have this to say about your DAV advice. I am old 67 and I have had 100% P&T rating for 18 years and I would not consider working even if I could. Any mental rating for 100% is subject to review. If your DAV SO is wrong look at what you are risking. If I understand the lost records were found.
My opinion is stick with your lawyer its in the lawyers interest to finish this out also.
Good Luck.
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I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE MAXIMUM RATABLE PERCENTAGE A VETERAN CAN RECEIVE FROM THE VA FOR SLEEP APNEA???
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP
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if i fired my lawyer i think the DAV would have to pick me up again because i am a life time member i paid the 125 dollar entry fee.
i dont think they would like it though seeing me after i dropped my lawyer then went back to them but i think i will just stay with my lawyer for now
like i said when the VA was confronted with my lost records 2- 3 weeks later i mean real fast no c and P no medical questionares they revoked my tdiu very quietly and gave 100% p and t
and at that time the DAV said i may be eligible for SMC in fact the DAV officer said "in fact I know your eligible now for SMC based on the lost records.
Ill just see what happens here. One thing i liked about the DAV is that they told me i could work now and make as much as i wanted and they further told me because i am old now they (VA) really dont want to bother with me scheduling any more medical exams aat least the DAV gave me a sense of hope
the DAV told me essentially with all the lost records that were sent to the VA
I threw pie in the VA s eyes the DAV said because i was moved so fast off tdiu to 100% schedular the archives wrote a nasty letter to the VA and said these records were lost
and the fact that a cover sheet came from the archives to the VA that pretty much nailed it my 100% schedular
the DAV also told me not to worry about getting my schedular down graded the DAV SO shook his head and said to me " not going to happen." not with the lost records that were found
but then jim strickland helped me get a lawyer and the DAV said good bye and that was that if i remember right that was about 7 light years ago
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what i like about this site is every one here understands your problems and what s going on in your life and its great to be here this is a good place to come for support and research
i hope some day they may have like a had it cook out or something i could write a lot of questions for that event
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My feeling or opinion is Tiger Team is a good thing for most Veterans.
if i fired my lawyer i think the DAV would have to pick me up again because i am a life time member i paid the 125 dollar entry fee.
i dont think they would like it though seeing me after i dropped my lawyer then went back to them but i think i will just stay with my lawyer for now
like i said when the VA was confronted with my lost records 2- 3 weeks later i mean real fast no c and P no medical questionares they revoked my tdiu very quietly and gave 100% p and t
and at that time the DAV said i may be eligible for SMC in fact the DAV officer said "in fact I know your eligible now for SMC based on the lost records.
Ill just see what happens here. One thing i liked about the DAV is that they told me i could work now and make as much as i wanted and they further told me because i am old now they (VA) really dont want to bother with me scheduling any more medical exams aat least the DAV gave me a sense of hope
the DAV told me essentially with all the lost records that were sent to the VA
I threw pie in the VA s eyes the DAV said because i was moved so fast off tdiu to 100% schedular the archives wrote a nasty letter to the VA and said these records were lost
and the fact that a cover sheet came from the archives to the VA that pretty much nailed it my 100% schedular
the DAV also told me not to worry about getting my schedular down graded the DAV SO shook his head and said to me " not going to happen." not with the lost records that were found
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what i like about this site is every one here understands your problems and what s going on in your life and its great to be here this is a good place to come for support and research
i hope some day they may have like a had it cook out or something i could write a lot of questions
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If you take Lisinopril and have a dry hacking cough especially when you lay down you need to talk to your Doctor and try something else. The VA gives Veterans lisinopril cause it is cheap. However for many it is not a good med. I had it and read on internet that as many as 70% develop this cough told my Doc and was switched to losartin
I am sharing this and by all means it is my experience and my opinion.
glad i asked the question
yes i do have a hacking cough i wake up late at night i thought it was the heat in my house
so linisiporal does that okay i will have the doctor remove that. The VA did not prescribe that a private doctor did
but my other question here is i have already been rated for back injury they put me on morphine sulfates but that wore out so now im on oxy co done i dont like that
can i be rated for my chronic back pain and can my cervical and lumbar be advanced to 100%
can a veteran get a 100% for chronic back pain??
thks
grt
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If a person is taking Oxy codone or Morphine Sulphates for his pain from a service connected and rated back injury
and is also taking propanol, linsiniprol and antenlol for high blood pressure
can the veteran file for chronic pain syndrome, related to the back injury (assuming the back injury has already been rated) plus high blood pressure related to the chronic back pain and ed because of the chronic pain syndrome and or high blood pressure the vet cannot achieve sex
OR DO ALL THESE GO TOGETHER?
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Also can high blood pressure be rated 100%?
Can chronic pain syndrome be rated 100%
Can ED be rated 100%
Thank for your help and response
thx
grt
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My feeling or opinion is Tiger Team is a good thing for most Veterans.
okay i will wait see what happens. Hopefully the best.
Grt
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I FOUND OUT MY CLAIM OR SOME OF MY CLAIM IS IN A PLACE CALLED THE TIGER TEAM CLEVELAND OHIO
WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO GET MY CLAIM SENT BACK TO THE LOCAL VARO
I AM CONSIDERING FIRING MY LAWYER HE HASN'T SENT ME A THING IN THE MAIL
ANY THOUGHTS HERE WOULD BE HELPFUL
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Could some one please post a link or please put up a model of HOW TO WRITE OR a WRIT OF MANDAMUS
NEED A HOW TO DO A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
THANK YOU
GRT
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it has been so long i am thinking of going back to the DAV because this lawyer is just not moving here. I have not received one piece of mail from this lawyer at all. The lawyer i have does not do anything .Grent:
The only issue that I can see with your claim now is for retro and you really were not clear if the VARO did that correctly. If you still have a lawyer there must be some issue that is outstanding and at this point I recommend that you let the lawyer earn their money and wait to see what has happened.
My questions now is what effective date did VA give you when they canceled TDIU and awarded 100% P&T.
What is the effective date for SMC?
Have you filed for Social Security?
When did you last work?
Pete
dont know what to do.
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Grent
The VA must have found that you met the requirement for 100% schedular. You can't be TDIU and 100% at the same time. This is nothing to worry about I don't think. What does your lawyer have to say about this? What are you 100% for? Are you 100% for TBI? What date do you have for the retro? You have a lawyer and you are being represented by DAV? What is the lawyer representing you for?
after i got a lawyer the dav dropped me after a quick phone call i had with them
may write to my congress person see if that does any good but i doubt it will
may try writ of mandamus route see if that bring any results
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Grent
If you may be eligible for retro that is good. I don't see any downside to what the VA has said. When did you get the brain injury and did you claim it or is the VA inferring it?
THE BRAIN INJURY IS ALREADY CLAIMED AND IT IS RATED. I WAS JUST CURIOUS WHY THE VA REMOVED MY TDIU AND PUT ME ON 100 % P AND T WITHOUT A C AND P
THE ONLY ANSWER I COULD FIGURE OUT WAS WHEN I SENT THEM MY LOST RECORDS. I THINK THE WAY MY RATING IS NOW I CAN WORK MAKE AS MUCH AS I WANT AND KEEP MY VA MONEY? NOT SURE ABOUT THAT?
IS THEIR ANY PLACE I CAN GO TO LEARN HOW TO DO A WRIT OF MANDAMUS?
THANKS
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THE DAV DROPPED ME AFTER I GOT A LAWYER.
AFTER THE VA GOT MY LOST RECORDS ( I SENT MY LOST RECORDS INTO THEM) THE VA REVOKED MY TDIU AND AWARDED ME 100 % P AND T.
NO C AND P NO FURTHER QUESTIONS THEY VA TOOK ME OFF TDIU AND AWARDED ME 100 % P AND T, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY MY GUESS IS THE LOST RECORDS
THEN A LETTER CAME FEW DAYS LATER ABOUT TRAU BRAIN INJURY STATING I MAY BE ENTITLED TO A RETRO PAYMENT FOR THAT ISSUE
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Grent
Did you not say you are 100% P&T?
AFTER MY LOST RECORDS WERE LOCATED I SUBMITTED THEM TO THE VA. COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER BROWN ENVELOPE ARRIVES. IT DOESNT SAY THAT THEY REVOKED MY TDIU . IT JUST SHOWED THE NEW RATINGS
HOW MUCH PERCENTAGE THEY GAVE ME AND SAYS I AM PERMANENTLY AND TOTATLY DISABLED. 100% .
THEN ANOTHER LETTER CAME SAID SOMETHING ABOUT TRAU BRAIN INJURY AND BEING ENTITLED TO RETRO PAY FOR THAT ISSUE I SENT THAT TO MY LAWYER TO.
I CALLED THE DAV UP THEY TOLD ME MY TDIU WAS REVOKED AND P AND T 100% SCHEDULER WAS AWARDED. THEN THE DAV VERIFIED I CAN MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS I WANT AND I WOULD STILL GET MY 100%
BECAUSE MY TDIU WAS REVOKED.
I ASKED THE DAV WHY THE VA QUIETLY DID THAT REVOKED MY TDIU AND AWARDED ME 100% P AND T WITH OUT COMP AND PENSION EXAM.
NOT SURE IS WHAT THEY TOLD ME AND THEN THEY SAID SINCE I HAVE A LAWYER OUR CONVERSATION HAS TO END THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DISCUSS ANY THING FURTHER WITH ME.
I MUST BE REALLY PERSONANA NON GRATA I'M A SENSATIVE 7 NOW AT THE VA
WHY I HAVE NO IDEA?? THATS WAS MANY YEARS AGO TO.
THAT WAS OH ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN YEARS AGO. SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I DON'T KEEP TRACK ANY MORE UNLESS I HEAR FROM THE VA.
EVERY YEAR A DIFFERENT VARO GETS MY CLAIMS FOLDER
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Okay will try that see what happens.
I have another question for Pete.
When I was on TDIU and my lost records were finally found ( i went without VA benefits for over 20 years ) I filed the lost records with the VA immeadiately SPOKE TO JIM STRICKLAND, claimed 38 cfr 3.156 and got a lawyer through Jim Strickland.
What happens next just blew me away. Big brown ENV shows up, oh about 3 weeks later. (HUM I'M THINKING SHAM WOW THATS TO FAST??) Now you can't do anything without a comp and pension exam or file a new claim. I just sent in the lost records from NPRC with a letter stating these are my lost records and during the twenty year period my records were lost i continued to file claims and you took no action AND I WENT WITHOUT MY VA BENEFITS.
THE VA SENDS ME A BRAND NEW RATING LISTING ALL KINDS OF NEW SCS WHICH OF COURSE THEY TOOK FROM THE LOST medical RECORDS. How come no C and P exam???
THEY ALSO VERY QUIETLY REMOVED, WELL REVOKED MY TDIU AND GAVE ME P AND T SCHEDULER RATING OF 100% and the way the rating math looks now well back then, according to the DAV ( they sent me a letter to ) it looks like now I may be entitled to SMC. But since i have a lawyer the DAV took off, that was about oh five years ago something like that.
That just blew me away.
Every one I talked to was surprised the VA did that administrative action normally a person would be scheduled for C and P. Then yet another letter comes in the mail now they tell me since I am rated TB that I may be even further
retro payed for the traumatic brain injury. I figured my own math out, so thats 2 SHAM WOWS IN THE SPACE OF A MONTH?? The VA has their own math why can't I have mine??
Kind of funny now both sides of my head are filling in completely with gray hairs my beard has turned completely white now . I feel like I'm on that that prison island in that World War II movie Passage to Marsille with Humphrey Bogart.
Every couple of years I get a letter saying we are working on your claim and its always from a different VARO every time. I later found out my records were broken down and farmed out to different VAROS.
I called the VA hot line the VA phone person tells me my records were broken down because VA is currently down - sizing staff? DOWN - SIZING ???? I keep thinking of that commercial SHAM WOW. Okay something new here.
Is this something new here taking veterans off a TDIU then awarding P and T without any further administrative action. Has this Happened to any other VETS in the Forum you know of?? With lost records??
Why did the VA do this? Just beyond me.. But then again I look at the VA from the perspective of being a captive audience what you see, is what you see and thats it.
PETE ANY THOUGHTS HERE??
Thanks Again for any help .
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STILL WAITING 4 1/2 YEARS NOW FOR MY FORM 9 NINES TO BE CERTIFIED BEFORE THEY GO TO THE BVA.
I HAVE A COUPLE OF SEPARATE ISSUES PENDING BEFORE THE BVA. I HAVE A LAWYER EVERY TIME I CALL HIM THEY TELL ME THEY ARE IN WAITING MODE.
I CALL THE LOCAL VARO THEY TELL ME THEY ARE WAITING FOR MY FORMS NINES TO "CERTIFIED" BEFORE THEY GO TO THE BVA. 4 1/2 YEARS I HAVE LISTENED TO THIS BS.
LAST MONTH OUT OF NO WHERE A VARO I DONT EVEN DEAL WITH SENDS ME A LETTER AND STATES I NEED TO FILE YET ANOTHER FORM NINE DIDNT MAKE SENSE TO ME
OKAY HUM?? FOUND SOME OF MY FILE WAS FARMED OUT TO ANOTHER VARO DUE TO OVERLOAD.
ANYWAY I FILED THAT FORM NINE WITHIN THE 60 DAY LIMIT RETURN RECEIPT GREEN CARD I DID NOT BOTHER TO CALL MY LAWYER .
STILL NOTHING.------------- 4 1/2 YEARS FIVE MOVES LATER .
ANY THOUGHTS WOULD BE HELPFUL.
SORRY FOR THE LARGE TYPE MY EYES ARE GONE.
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its been 2 years going on three now form 9 was filed many years ago letters come saying they r working on my appeals l i feel the va is getting worse and they order c and p for any thing you file for.Ditto for me
i feel the c and p exams are just a sham the va uses their doctors to simply deny and force the veteran to either quit or go to the bva
miss the 60 day form 9 appeal and your done unless you can prove 38 cfr 3.156
i beleive this will go on and on this has gone on for centuries since day one politicians talk nothing gets done
nothing really ever gets done and the va likes that because they can deny claims and life goes on
do i think ill get a fair hearing at the bva if i live that long ?
"most likely not" no pun intended
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Hi i sent the appropriate form to the local va hospital certified mail stapled to that form was my doctors rx for a wheel chair. that was a while back I have not heard from them
so i will call the hospital. If I am correct, on the second filing for a clothing allowance it becomes permanent but dont quote me on that.
also i think i read here if you file after august 1 then you dont get it (clothing allowance) until the following August as the clothing allowance is only paid i believe on 1 August every year i dont know if im correct about that either.
i let you know how i make out once i get in touch with the local va hospital
i got service connecttion for couple of spine issues so i dont think the VA will hassle me on the clothing allowance
thx
gt
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HELLO:
I HAVE A SMC QUESTION I AM CURRENTLY 100% P & T SCHEDULAER ALL MY SCS THAT MAKE UP MY 100% RATING
MY QUESTION IS
CAN I RECEIVE A K AWARD FOR ED IF MY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION IS CAUSING MY ED?
ALSO IN REGARD TO MY CHRONIC PAIN IN MY SERVICE RECORDS IT SAYS I HAD A LOT OF PAIN AND WAS ON IV FOR PAIN AFTER BEING REMOVED FROM ER
CAN I USE THAT AS EVIDENCE FOR MY CHRONIC PAIN CLAIM?
THX
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