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Roly

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    Hi Carlie, About that SVGLI, since I did not pick up on that back in 2006, am I not qualified for it now? Thanks, Roly
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    Brown envelope this afternoon. PTSD 30% to 50% effective 6/2006; 50% to 70% with UI effective 10/2010; "No examination will be scheduled in the future." I posted before when I heard this was coming, but deleted the post because of disbelief, chickens hatching, etc. Now it is real. I thank the Hadit and will contribute. Claim actually started in 2004, been at it on and off since then. I did not even know about PTSD when I first put in for tinnitus and depression. Thanks, Roly
  3. I substantiated a specific rocket / mortar attack near Danang, and a downed Navy helo in the delta by searching on line. Try a look at <http://www.mrfa.org> and lots of links there, maybe a reference to your stressor. There are other sites, too. I was able to include photos of results of the rocket destruction in my stressor letter, and was service connected for PTSD with the information I found. Good Luck, Roly
  4. ................................and, all those folks that are "on the inside", lookin' out and watchin' you comin' down the hall towards them..........they all thinkin' "damn, do we have to be in here with people like that?" just sayin'...............................................................................
  5. I see what you are saying, but I really do not think I could be a psych inpatient for a month. It is hard enough to go to the Med Center, or the C&P. I have to do those things, so I can think of it as some sort of in and out mission, grit my teeth, and just do it, but hanging out there in my jammies, under observation all the time, is too much to contemplate. I think I would rather forgo the improved rating than be among people like that. Also, though it is a moot point, I heard that the 100% starts after being inpatient for 21 days. ????? Roly
  6. Thanks, Wings and you others, I have been reassured that they won't grab me involuntarily. I think that the rest of the C&P report will support the rating improvement I was seeking. I will now just wait and see. Thanks again Roly
  7. Background: Vietnam vet, '69-71. I was granted 30% for PTSD in 2008 , added to 10% tinnitus; and wrote a NOD to put the effective date back to where I started the process, and objected to the 30% as insufficient. I wrote in the NOD that the private C&P exam psychologist they hired was a dismissive and rude jerk, and further requested that if a new C&P exam was called for that they not send me to that individual. The effective date was put back to 6/2006, which I accepted. Before my year to assemble stuff was up, however, they wrote a denial for the 30% disagreement. I had just sent in supportive letters from my wife, my only long time friend, and the counselor I had been sent to by the local Vet Center, for a year, but they had not been reviewed before the denial was sent to me. Then I sent in a form 9 requesting a BVA review. I have been waiting for this to be scheduled, expecting a circuit BVA hearing in Seattle. So, I recently received a letter from Seattle Regional DRO saying that a private medical entity has been instructed to give me a new C&P exam, and that they hope to resolve my appeal in a fair and timely manner. I had been assembling a bit of a rambling letter to the VBA going into why I can't face going back to work, am getting by on a minimal pension, and addressing PTSD symptoms as they apply to me, including suicidal ideation. I went to this second C&P with a different psychologist, and gave him these notes, as well as the earlier C&P report, the rambling letter that I had never sent to the benefits people, and the denial letter from them. He said, "Let me read this and I will continue with a phone conversation within the week." He called this morning with just a couple of questions about the stressor, and a recommendation that I get my VA doctor to switch me from Prozac to something called Pristiq, and that the original C&P seemed flawed to him, and that he thinks I suffer from anxiety disorder as well as PTSD. I said OK, thanks. Then this afternoon he called back and said he will mail me the report that he is sending to the VBA via QTC, and that in it he is recommending that I would benefit from INPATIENT TREATMENT for a MONTH. Oh Shit. Can these guys grab me for incarceration in their looney bin? This examiner's friend is the head of the PTSD department, or whatever they call it, at a VA med center, and the C&P examiner thinks I ought to go see him. Does this man want to help me, or is this a new tactic to get veterans disappeared, or, even, "Cured" to 0% disability? WTF. Perhaps I should be afraid, very afraid, Roly
  8. Pete, and all, Thanks for the responses I only accepted the amended effective date, my NOD also objected to the amount of 30%, which is still the issue for resolution. Could this be new C&P exam be to get more recent information for a BVA hearing, or is it feasible that the DRO could grant a % increase? If they deny a % increase, could I not still have a BVA hearing. since I requested that on the form 9? Thanks, Roly
  9. Couple of questions, please excuse me if I use wrong terms. Background: I was granted 30% for PTSD in 2008 , added to 10% tinnitus; and wrote a NOD to put the effective date back to where I started the process, and objected to the 30% as insufficient. I wrote in the NOD that the private C&P exam psychologist they hired was a dismissive and rude jerk, and further requested that if a new C&P exam was called for that they not send me to that individual. The effective date was put back to 6/2006, which I accepted. Before my year to assemble stuff was up, however, they wrote a denial for the 30% disagreement. I had just sent in supportive letters from my wife, my only long time friend, and the counselor I had been sent to by the local Vet Center, for a year, but they had not been reviewed before the denial was sent to me. Then I sent in a form 9 requesting a BVA review. I have been waiting for this to be scheduled, expecting a circuit BVA hearing in Seattle. So, yesterday I received a letter from Seattle Regional DRO saying that a private medical entity has been instructed to give me a new C&P exam, and that they hope to resolve my appeal in a fair and timely manner. This is not what I have been expecting. In fact so much time has passed waiting for anything from them that I started to feel that my chances of anything positive were shrinking. Is the new C&P exam to be seen as a good thing, like I suspect? Have they short circuited the BVA hearing? Also, I have not seen anything in the TDIU information about age of the Vet. As I am 62, and retired from middling Civil Service. I got out of there at the first instant I could qualify, due to stress and anxiety, but did make it to minimum retirement. I would think that I could not go for TDIU since I did work for 30 years (including military time) until I could stand the BS no longer. Thanks Roly
  10. Couple of questions, please excuse me if I use wrong terms. Background: I was granted 30% for PTSD in 2008 , added to 10% tinnitus; and wrote a NOD to put the effective date back to where I started the process, and objected to the 30% as insufficient. I wrote in the NOD that the private C&P exam psychologist they hired was a dismissive and rude jerk, and further requested that if a new C&P exam was called for that they not send me to that individual. The effective date was put back to 6/2006, which I accepted. Before my year to assemble stuff was up, however, they wrote a denial for the 30% disagreement. I had just sent in supportive letters from my wife, my only long time friend, and the counselor I had been sent to by the local Vet Center, for a year, but they had not been reviewed before the denial was sent to me. Then I sent in a form 9 requesting a BVA review. I have been waiting for this to be scheduled, expecting a circuit BVA hearing in Seattle. So, yesterday I received a letter from Seattle Regional DRO saying that a private medical entity has been instructed to give me a new C&P exam, and that they hope to resolve my appeal in a fair and timely manner. This is not what I have been expecting. In fact so much time has passed waiting for anything from them that I started to feel that my chances of anything positive were shrinking. Is the new C&P exam to be seen as a good thing, like I suspect? Have they short circuited the BVA hearing? Also, I have not seen anything in the TDIU information about age of the Vet. As I am 62, and retired from middling Civil Service. I got out of there at the first instant I could qualify, due to stress and anxiety, but did make it to minimum retirement. I would think that I could not go for TDIU since I did work for 30 years (including military time) until I could stand the BS no longer. Thanks Roly
  11. What can I do? Following the usual amount of delay and steps, in 2008 I was awarded 30% PTSD disability effective 6/2006 for traumas experienced in Vietnam. This added to my earlier tinnitus 10% for presently 40%. I did not agree and submitted (through American Legion service officer) a NOD, somewhere around 3/08. They sent a letter of denial before my year was up, and before three letters of support that I provided were added to the file. I had provided a letter from my wife, one from the only friend I have kept in contact with from before Vietnam, and one from the therapist I had been seeing via Seattle Vet Center for a year. I sent in a Form 9 about a year ago. So, I checked with my service officer about status today, also asking if I ought to go to my Senator's office to appeal, and was informed the following: "They are preparing your case for a travel board hearing which is when a judge comes up from Washington DC. Now your Form 9 is dated 2/26/09 and right now the hearings we have are from the year 2005. Again, appeals can take a long time. Your file has to be shipped to Washington DC and put on their docket. They are worked on the order received; right now in the recession there is no way to expedite an appeal or even a claim. Again, if you contact Senator Murray or Cantwell, the whole entire process stops. Your file will essentially go back to the bottom of the pile once the Senator is finished reviewing your file and making any necessary actions. However, that is your decision to make." It seems like maybe I will get a hearing in about 5 years. It seems like my service officer is similarly as passive as many VA employees. In the vast experience of contributors to this forum is there any advice or helpful comment? Thanks a lot, Roly Washington State, previously Danang, Saigon, Westpac
  12. J. Baser, and Two Petes, Thanks for the responses. I can hardly believe it, but I just opened a VA letter granting my spouse dependent benefit back to July 2006. Looks like I can expect about $1,600 back differential to show up soon. My NOD was June 4, and today is 13 days later. Never saw such a turn around from them before. Regards, Roly
  13. Hello, Experts, I was awarded 30% PTSD as of June 15, 2006, as a single Veteran, bringing my total compensation to 40% disability, (10% tinnitus since 2004). That was after I disagreed with their original Feb, 2008 effective date. In the same NOD where I disputed the effective date, I disagreed with the 30%, and stated that I should receive compensation for my dependent spouse and custodial granddaughters. I got the PTSD effective date amended several months ago, but the dependence issue was still under review, as well as the % of PTSD. Three weeks ago I received a VA letter granting the spouse dependent, but denying the granddaughters because they were not adopted. OK, I understand this, but the spousal inclusion was effective as of Feb, 2008, which is when I sent in the NOD. I put in another NOD, via my Service Officer in the American Legion, saying that the spouse ought to be effective from June 2006, just like the PTSD, when I went above 10%. The 30% disagreement is still pending. I spoke to my American Legion person, and she said they will only give me the dependent as of the time I asked for it, that my NOD will likely be denied. Anybody have any information on this. Does not seem right. Thanks, Roly
  14. Yes. Then they sent a letter asking for dates for her first long time ago marriage, and for adoption evidence for the granddaughters. I did this on a form 21-4138, as they specified, and mailed it to them the next day, in Nov. '08. I sent it directly to the VA rather than through the American Legion, which I should have done, and they still, "Haven't received it." I'll remail a copy and do it through my VSR this time. Since I did not adopt my ganddaughters, I'll get some retroactive at 30% for me and one dependent. Roly
  15. Pete, thanks for the optimism, but; Sharon, thanks for the citations. It looks to me like my custody does not count for VA dependency, as it is not adoption. Maybe this is because there is usually no sort of child support from others if a kid is blood offspring or adopted, but in the case of a foster child, or non parental custody, some sort of child support is supposed to be given to the foster parents. Funny, they are dependents in the eyes of the IRS. Regards, Roly
  16. Hello, I have a question regarding custodial children and their elgibility as dependents for compensation. I am a grandparent with court mandated custody of a granddaughter, due to addiction and abandonment of her mother. I am told by my VSR that this has to be an adopted child, but I think I saw a CFR reference to exceptions to this flat rule. I saw it here, I think, but cannot find it now. I filled out a statement on a for form 12-4138 explaining this, and stated that I can provide the court decision and IRS agreement for an income tax dependent claim. I am told that there is no record of this in my file, and have to resend. This is holding uo a granted 20 month effective date retroactive check for 30% PTSD. Does anybody know where a CFR rule on definition of dependent children is to be found. If I can, I would like to quote it to them. I am currently awaiting a DRO Hearing to preceed a BVA hearing on my disagreement with the 30% rating. They are still sending compensation as a single vereran, even though I claimed my wife, this present grandchild dependent, and her older sister who was a dependent for a portion of the 20 month effective date. Thanks for any input, Roly
  17. Hoppy, Thanks for the advice. I do have health insurance with an HMO, who is not much interested in mental health much, or reporting for the VA at all. My problem is the need to go completely outside anything that is cost subsidized for this documentation, and its cost. How to do this, short of calling a shrink from the yellow pages, is a problem. I am enrolled in VA health care, too, presently it seems better than the HMO. Maybe my primary care doctor there could be more useful? Thanks, Roly quote name='Hoppy' date='Feb 7 2009, 02:00 PM' post='129469'] Roly, I often tell veterans not to rely on the C&P process when asking for an increase. If it were my claim I would have sought treatment and got a new report with GAF and submitted it with the claim or in support of the claim within the time frame allowed prior to a decision. Several veterans on this site have been able to obtain such reports from VA doctors. One in particular was referred by the primary care to a mental health exam. It sounds like you might have health Ins. In any event you need a doctor to hear your contentions as to your disability and write an assessment related to your PTSD and a current GAF. I am not sure that they will grant you another C&P based on your own opinion as to your limitations or your opinion as to the quality of the previous C&P exam.
  18. Hi, Cowgirl, Thanks for the follow-up, It seems to me that you do have copy of your C&P that you are rebutting. Had you submitted a vcaa form (required to be sent from the VA)already asking for more time before a decision was to be made? How close were you to the dates the VA presented? I don't know what a vcaa form is. Their letter said I had a year to submit stuff, but they decided in 5 months. Keeping a file is crucial at this point, every letter, postmarked envelope, telephone call, the works. Long time ago I too depended on an ancient vso, until I woke up here at Hadit. After getting my SMR's and Cfile, direct access to M21-1 and CFR38 via the VA website I am more confident, honestly. First file was a the old cardboard box, grew outta that now, much better organized. My semi organized file is where I found their earlier correspondance that made them set the effective date back. Out of curiosity, did your VSO file the papers for you or did you go it alone? My current VSO is a good channel if nothing else to keep the dots connected. I have learned that unless I call and ask questions, there are few VSO generated calls my way. I send my papers to the VA through my American Legion VSO. Now I find her hard to get on the phone or via email. On a side note, I learned to be cautious about stating 'flaws' in c&p's to the VA without support. Sounds like you are on the ball. Claim SOC referred to a telephone conversation I had challenging my c&p exam. No, they do not have to complete a second exam; its 'thier' choice. Using the regulations, fast letters and other VBA cases to support a claim issue is important. I've learned to post drafts and thoughts here for a second or third set of eyes. Like you have already done, as the vet showing specific support to a claim, that could help the rater look at the condition correctly. Be prepared for manipulation of words, near experts everywhere.(or nowhere). Here is what I sent that they hadn't seen before sending the SOC: Dear Sir or Madam, I write this letter to support my disagreement with the rating decision of -/--/2008. · My present ability to work is more seriously negatively affected by PTSD than was indicated in the rating decision. My previous employment consisted, for about 26 years, of civil service jobs with closed, safe, secure, predictable environments. It was just due to luck that I became a career Federal Employee. In the private sector, my employment would not have been continuous. I worked within a chain of command similar to that experienced during my earlier Navy enlistment. I worked for the Navy at a shipyard as an apprentice and a blue collar journeyman for 12 years and at *** for 14 years as a blue collar mechanic, then a planner/estimator, then a building repair and alterations project manager. I found that I could function within my several job titles, knowing that even meeting minimum requirements would keep my income safe. Although interacting with managers, clients, contractors, and peers was taxing, and difficult for me, and nearly intolerable during the last few years, I eventually felt that I must suffer the stresses until I could qualify for retirement, as an obligation to my wife, and some family members I had become obliged to support. I always, during the entire time, avoided interactions as much as I could; i.e. shop or office parties, events, “Teambuilding” exercises, meetings, friendships. Even if there were good people that very much liked me and my company, good food for free, I would still avoid them. If I had to attend I would leave after only a few minutes preferring to sit in my cubicle alone. Agency mandates from above were oblivious to the reality of actual work being attempted at my level. This led to extreme feelings of powerlessness for me. I feared being under the ultimate control of such deluded people made me vulnerable to any number of incompetent decisions or whims and could ultimately extend to dangerous conditions for me or others, or so it felt. It would cause me anxiety attacks on a regular basis for it seemed to mimic my sense of loss of control I experienced in Vietnam. I left my job, on -----, immediately that I was minimally qualified for any annuity. I was working for an unqualified, seemingly sociopathic bully of a supervisor with whom I did not get along. I wished that she would die. I am certain that I could not resume in a project management field in the private sector; impossible because what was barely tolerable in the Civil Service is extremely stressful competitive, insecure, and cutthroat, in the private sector. Private sector work is too anxiety producing for me to attempt, with arbitrary employment rules, unsecure, and unsafe. My PTSD symptoms would prevent any employment including most self employment, due to the need for appropriate interaction with others. · VA contracted C&P Examiner, -------------- and Associates provided a flawed evaluation and the examiner was purposely intimidating and callous. I suspect this Government contracted (Contract #------------) psychologist to be biased toward his employer’s implied desire to deny or minimize Veteran’s claims. I believe that a direct VA employee, such as I had expected to see for the C&P exam, could provide a less biased opinion since his or her employment is not cyclically reviewed for continuation by a contracting officer. I walked to my appointment, at -----, and found the office to be an intimidating penthouse luxury suite occupying all of the 41st and 42nd stories of a 42 story, class A, downtown --- high-rise; an environment designed to exalt the Psychologist and diminish the “claimant,” with 8’ doors, marble lobby floor, broad internal private stairway joining the two floors. Psychologist ------------ presented a snotty attitude, implied that I barely suffer from PTSD – “I see a LOT of Veterans, and most of them are LOTS worse off than you.” My C&P exam was a late afternoon, 3:30 pm, appointment, by this contractor’s choice, and shortly into the exam ------- instructed me to speak faster, “Or we will be here all night.” This exam was very obviously vastly more important to me than it was to him. It appeared to me that the VA is Mr. ------’s wealthy client, and that his job is to make assessments beneficial to his client. After I came home and reflected on my P&C Exam, I really wanted to strangle that officious, offensive man. When I later read his report, that reinforced my opinion. Mr. ------ report to the VA indicated a GAF score of 70, and incorporated verbiage that was chosen so as to fall in line with the VA’s definition for 30% disability. The VA, in its rating decision letter dated --------, 2008, on page 4, stated that a higher rating than 30% was not warranted unless there is reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: ”………..(1) Flattened affect…………; (2) difficulty in understanding complex commands; (3) impairment in short and long term memory; …..(4) disturbances of motivation and mood; (5) difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.” However, in the C&P evaluation, on page 3, is stated, among other things: (1) “There is a persistent restricted range of affect. The restricted range of affect is observable clinically.” Further, (2) On page 4, “….. Claimant shows difficulty understanding complex commands. ….would lose focus frequently at work and now he has difficulty maintaining concentration without going off on tangents.” And he further writes, in the next paragraph, (3) “Memory is impaired and the degree is moderate – problems with retention of highly learned material, forgets to complete tasks. He forgets what his wife has just told him, he forgets a decision he has already made, and he forgets errands.” (4) Page 4,”Affect and mood are abnormal, with depressed mood which occurs near continuous….” (5) Page 1, “He feels numb, or a lack of emotion. He avoids crowds, trips, and vacations. The symptoms described occur constantly. The effect the symptoms have upon daily functioning is that he has avoided friendships. His marriage is strained;”….and on page 2, “There have been some major social function changes since he developed his mental condition, for example, he has become very withdrawn. He says that being around people adds complications, stresses, and even danger. He states that he is currently not working, and he has not been working for (sic) 3/2008 because he retired. He was employed as a real estate project manager for 14 (sic). He says that he retired at the earliest possible time. The reason that he retired was that he did not enjoy the constraints and restrictions of the job. He had a terrible supervisor.” Mr. ---- contradicts himself in his report by stating in remarks, page 5, “He has no difficulty understanding commands,” but on page 3, “Claimant shows difficulty understanding complex commands.” Mr. ----- was impatient and acted annoyed if I spoke to any degree beyond the scripted questions he asked. I had written a statement for the P&C Examiner before my appointment because I feared I might fail to impart information I felt was pertinent, due to my discomfort in a situation of being scrutinized. He would not accept my statement, nor would he read it. Many of Mr. -------’s conclusions regarding my emotional state seem to be in opposition to how I feel. For example: he states that my response to psychotherapy has been very good, but in reality it has helped to a limited degree only; per Mr. ------, the only reason that my work was adversely affected is due to avoidance of non work activities, but there was a lot more to it than that, as I indicated above. Mr. ------- states that the relationship with my last supervisor was fair. But it definitely was not, and I said so. (In another part of his report, under Family and Social History, Mr. Smith stated that, “He had a terrible supervisor.”) I also believe that a GAF score of 50-60 is more accurate than 70 in view of the following definitions: 71 – 61 Some mild symptoms (e.g. depressed mood and mild insomnia) OR some difficulty in social, or occupational environment, budgetary functioning pretty well. Has some meaningful interpersonal relationships. 60 – 51 Moderate Symptoms (e.g. flat affect and circumstantial speech, occasional panic attacks) OR moderate difficulty in social, occupational environment (e.g. few friends, conflicts with peers or co-workers.) 50 – 41 Serious Symptoms (e.g. suicidal ideation, severe obsessional rituals, OR serious impairment in a social, or occupational environment (e.g. no friends, unable to keep a job). · I request that the VA Benefits Reviewer grant at least 50% disability for PTSD. Either through a reevaluation of the P&C Exam report in view of my comments above, or with input from a new C&P Exam, I believe that a conscientious regional VA employee reviewing my claim should revise the 30% service connection for PTSD to 50% or 70%. If there were to be any further interview or exam for this claim, I respectfully request that I not be sent to the same contracted entity as before. Thank You, I hereby certify that the information I have given is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Roly Have I screwed myself with this letter? C?ould there be CUE? Another thought, since this seems to be your first claim, caution you be patient. The process is a big learning curve. On your next claim, if you have one I suspect, be sure to identify specifically those issues that you attribute to service connected disabilities. Meaning, its common to submit for all related health conditions and expect the highest rating possible. (When I retired, I submitted several items per advice, some were approved at 0%, but most important was the established 'date of the claim'.) More on that later...er, another time. My first claim was in 2005 for tinnitus, hearing loss, and depression. They gave me sc for the first two, 10% and 0% respectively, and denied the depression. I sent in a NOD, saying that the depression must be PTST, which I had only recently heard of. (You'd think the VSO would have clued me earlier.) This they made into a new claim, which established the effective date they eventually awarded. So....I do understand patience. Making a decision in five months is fair for the VA but its from the date of your claim that you have to get your notice of denial (NOD) in. Or if you already are assigned a percentage, even though you think its low, the VA doesnt know until you tell em. Consider simply submitting a 'claim for increase' identifying the medical opinions and facts from the regulations as support for correcting the Service Connection date. Hope most of this made sense, Best to ya, and for abbreviations go to the search bar/tab up there /\ on the right top and input 'abbreviations'. Take ya right there. Cg'up2009! P.S. Good luck on dependent compensation, the VA tied that into a claim I had in at the time, so it took a longer time than I thought. There are many priorities when it comes to claims and approving dependents claims isnt first most. Of course, keep a date stamped copy or request a date stamped copy of the dependent certification you submit. My dependents didnt change all these years, but had to reprove them to the VA. Ever read the VA morning reports to see how your VARO fairs in handling claims? interesting snapshot. Where do you find the VARO snapshots? Thanks again, Roly
  19. Hi, Cowgirl, In my NOD, August 2008, I objected to the effective date for the 30% award and to the amount of the 30%, stating that the C&P was flawed. In the SOC they kept 30% but backed the effective date up 20 months to correct it. yippee. I also need them to add a dependent spouse and grandchild, which I haven't heard from them about yet.. They had reviewed the C&P report done by a contracted psychologist, and saw no problem with 30%. My letter contradicting 5 points in the C&P report and connecting them to 5 of their criteria for 50% crossed their SOC in the mail. They have it now, but I think I am still remanded to the BVA, and the locals won't do anything??? They give me a year to get letters in, but make a decision in 5 months???? Where do I find definitions of terms in this website? "DRO" must mean something-regional office... I am on my second VSO from the American Legion office, first one was useless, the present one might be less useless. Thanks, Roly
  20. Hello All, I have read postings for a couple of years or more, as I navigated my way to 10% tinnitus, 2006, followed by 30% PTSD, 2008. I am a Navy Nam Vet. I learned Vietnamese after boot camp in 1968 at Defense Language Instititute in Monterey, then spent a year in country, NSA Danang, Camp Carter and NSA Saigon, Air Cofat. After that I was in VA115, an A6 squadron out of Oak Harbor WA, which did a Westpac deployment on the USS Midway. Then I went home. Now I'm 60 and retired out of federal civil service (at the earliest minute possible). Where on the forum should I ask knowledgable members about proceeding now that my NOD was answered last week by a SOC that refers me to the BVA? I had requested a de novo review at the regional level, but their SOC came before they saw my non medical support letter challenging points in my award letter and the C&P exam, and my wifes support letter. I need to choose the type of BVA review. What is the rate of success with the BVA? Thanks, Pleased to Meet Ya, Roly
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