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I was rated 60% for both coronary artery disease and paroxymal atrial fibrillation. The ratings manual shows separate schedules for each. Shouldnt these have been rated separately?

This is the sorriest state of affairs imaginable!!! How shortsighted can an administration possibly be!!!!! It curdles the brain to think that intelligent people would believe they could manipulate dollars to the detraction of care for the one group they must depend upon utterly to meet their objectives!! The military, Vets and prospective enlistees!!! Do they think in their hubris that word would not get out???? The only possible ,rational alternative is that the press is exaggerating . This is too hard to buy into at least for this VET It's very hard these days to maintain a belief congruent with this administration's security aims as they screw up the obvious time and time again! Lets stop so many tax favors for their rich buddies and start paying for the legitimate costs of natioanl security policies. Cut the pork projects! Hit the oil companies for windfall profits! Dump the tax cuts that benefited primarily the wealthy! Reintroduce competitive contract bidding for projects in IRAQ! Stop midnight congressional pay raises!! reinstitute the estate tax! raise the ceiling on social security taxable income so that the wealthy pay a percentage just a bit closer to the rest of us Identify and kick out those representatives who consistently vote against Vet issues!!! OH, and while we are at, lets tax the registered lobbyiest of whom their are more that two thousand in DC alone, so that every dollar they"give" our reps provides 50% to lower the deficit

Its that time of year again! I know VA Disability comp is not taxable but... does the IRS require some printed form stating how much VA paid you in a tax year?

Crimson, If you go to the VA Watchdog site and poke around ,you will find the vets voting records of all members of congress re I think the DAV. If you are a Republican voter you are going to be shocked and disappointed

Pete, Thanks for the input. You can bet I'll get the application in immediately. The real issue is how soon they will process it!!!!! At any rate, its good to know there one year deadline is not absolute.

Frosty, Thanks for the quick response. I found the Champva manual and tho it doesnt specifically reference this issue, it does say they will deny any claim made more than a year after the occurrence. in my case its going to be real tight for the thousands of $s we had tp pay for my wifes" two major operations last year. Most of them happened in the Feb March time period so if the application process for Champva we are filling out now, takes too long, we will be past the year deadline. My problem no doubt. Glad yours worked out and glad you shared the knowledge. I wouldnt have begun to guess they might do this.

BERTA, Also true that by regulation, Champva will automatically deny any claim submitted more than one year from the actual expense. This info from the Champva manual/ brochure , downloadable at HAC website

FROSTY, What forms did you use to get paid back by Champva for your wife's old medical bills ? Do you mean that Champva paid her out of pocket medical bills from back before you increased to P&T? I just got increased to P&T going back to July of 2005. Wife had huge out of pocket med expenses in 2006. Is this like your situation in that they will pay her for the 2006 expenses once we sign her up????

I have read somewhere that when a P&T Vets' wife gets Champva she can file to receive refunds for her medical expenses retroactive to the original date of her husbands qualification for P&T. Is this correct? Can anyone point me to the pertinent regulation?

Kenny J Does sound good for you! I guess we all run a little scared after all the war stories we hear and live! I just wondered if anyone had the same language "award" and "authorization" used in connection with a denial Seems like you dont have to award or authoriize when you deny but........ this is VARO land and who can explain what happens there!!

VIKE 17 OK, but does it mean a FAVORABLE decison?????

three weeks ago the IRIS line told me a decison had been made on my IU cliam and the "AWARD" would be processed in the next two weeks. Today the guy on the telephone told me the "decision had been "AUTHORIZED" today. Can anyone familiar with VA TALK tell me what this probably means?????

On Oct 13 of this year I received an email response to my request on the the status of my I.U claim. The response from the VARO was " A decision has been made on your claim you should get a letter within two weeks." When I didnt hear from them thru last saturday I queried via email aagain. Just now i received the response that ("the claim has been rated and sent to the rating team, apparently a mistake was found because it was re-rated on 11 November. I'm sorry I told you two weeks , it was just an estimate.} Can anyone read into this ,particularly the part mentioning the re-rating on 11 November, whether this is a good or bad sign. Chewing on fingernails here.