Jim MAC

Thanks All You people rock. I will keep you informned and keep my fingers crossed. Jim

This makes me so mad, When I was on active duty I had to be a bailif in a court martial of an E-4 who missed used his goverment issued credit card. He got one year in Jail and A big chicken dinner discharge. But then we all know young enlisted troops are held to a higher standard then anybody elseJim

I fought the VA for 4 years over back issues. If it was not for my primary care physcian at the VA ordering a MRI I would have never won my claim. I would not sweat it. The can tell from a MRI how long its been. I only had one mention in my service records for a back problem. My QTC exam said as lest as likely or not. So iwas serviced connected. jim

Can you all read and Comment any ideas? Department Of Veterans Affairs VA Regional Office 210 Franklin RD Roanoke VA 24011 Dear Sir RE 314/10post VA xxx-xx-xxxx 1, I received a rating decision dated 18 may 2007. Consider this letter to be an official “Notice of Disagreement” (NOD) regarding the following disability. I am requesting a DE NOVO review by a new Decision review officer. I wish that the new Decision review officer use Sec. 4.3 Resolution of reasonable doubt. It is the defined and consistently applied policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs to administer the law under a broad interpretation consistent, however, with the facts shown in every case. When after careful consideration of all procurable and assembled data, a reasonable doubt arises regarding the degree of disability such doubt will be resolved in favor of the claimant. 2, I was turned down for an increase in my 0 percent skin cancer on 18 may 2007. I believe at that time the rater had rated me fairly with the information he had in hand. 3 Since that time I have had 2 more skin cancer operations on my nose. I have been informed by my surgeon Dr Chung at the VAMC in Hampton Virginia that I still have cancer in has now moved into my cartilage. There is nothing else the VA can do for me and I will be sent out to a civilian surgeon for another operation. 4. Since January 1st this year I have already lost 10 days from work due to having operations and follow up care. I do believe that my medical records at the Hampton VAMC fully support an increase in my skin cancer because I am not cured nor have I been cure for the last 4 years. 6. I fully intend to continue to appeal any further denials of this claim V/R xxxxxx xxxxxx VA Claim Number xxx-xx-xxxx

CindyUSAf DFAS is doing you wrong there should be no VA waiver if you husband is 100% Schedule There should only be a waiver if he is IU. Go the the DFAS my pay account and ask the question why they are still takeing the money out. I would. Jim

<_< Hello All Some of you might remember I put in for an increase for my 0 percent skin cancer last year. The reason I put in for an increase is because it came back. So I had my 2nd skin cancer operation lo and behold they turned down my increase because I was cured after 2 operations fast forward to this year. Skin caner back operation in Jan, Skin cancer not all out operation in March call from VA Doc cancer down in cartlidge of my nose have to wait to I heeel some more and they will operatate again. Something called moorse surgery? Fee based I think is what he said. So my question to you all is should I just go ahead and submit a NOD from last year (Descion is dated May 24th 07) because obvisoulsy I was not cured? Or start a new claim for increase. Thanks all jim

I know that I suffer some times from depression. My wife wants me to see somebody about it. I not looking to claim it but will I lose my right to own a gun? Will I lose my concelled weapons permit? jim

So I guess they did not make the deadline agagin. You know when I owed the IRS money I had to pay 6 % intrest. Yet when the Goverment owes us money tough luck. Jim

Thanks all Well we decided ) I wanted a boat) but we decided to pay off a few bills and put the rest in a rainy day fund for a while. You men know who we is right. LOL Jim

Ok When I returned from Saudi Arabia the 3rd or was it the 4th time my soon to be xwife had left and kept my check (direct deposit.) So I know a little about haveing bad credit. First thing get a copy of your credit report, Anything over 6 years let it fall off your report don't pay it. Everthing else pay off. Call an make a deal with them. If you owe a hospital 1,000 dollars call and over 500. After you are caught up om your bills you can buy a home. When Ireturned after 1 year in Iceland my credit score at that time was 555. I bought a house with a VA loan. But since you are a disabled vet you will not have to pay any points on a VA home loan. Its a win, win situation. If you need any specfic advise just PM me Jim PS us zommies got to stick together

Amen brother to that. I say what ever Social Security, Military retires and disabled vets get that what congress should get Jim

Today was the deadline to fix the original batch of CRAD and CRSC military retires. This is after they missed the first two deadlines, Did any other miltary retire collect theres? I know my buddy down the street did not get his Jim

I got my backpay today a little over 10,000 bucks. As some of you know I am a military retire. Well I finally recd my back pay for CRDP. I am one happy dude. Jim

Betty All I can say is congrats and I am sorry it took so long Jim

Pete Thanks buddy and thanks to all of you who are keeping ther fingers crossed. I just wanteden to give up so many times but thanks to you all here at hadit I have not. If it was not for all you support I would have gaven up a long time ago and still be at 60%. May God bless you and your families jim

Tomorrow’s the big day Well I can’t believe it after 1295 days from my initial claim and 405 days from my filing the old form 9 I have my BVA Traveling board hearing tomorrow. I will keep you all informed when I get back. Just a little nervous so much riding on this. Does anybody know how long after the hearing I will get a decision? Jim

It just pises me off that a deseving vet has to go the press to get help. If I here one more time that the average waiting time is 179 days I think I will go postal. (sorry to the postal guys and girls on here.) jIM

I remember reading some where that the gentlman who owns a lot of liberty tax services in the Hampton Roads area of VA is a retired vet. They are a Vet friendly company Jim PS think it was the AF times

Pete I am fighting the VA over my dental care I will go down on my next day off and sign up for dental its within my five years Jim

Berta When I retired in 03 it was so bad I did not get a retirment physical. I asked for one was told I had a PHA whitin the past year and did not need one. I retire from Active Duty with active skin cancer could not get it taken care of. Then they wanted me to sign up for tricare and pay over 500 bucks a year to use the Military hospital. I laughed could not get an appt on active duty how could i get one as a retire? So I just use tricare standard and pay as I go jim

I sent a email to DFAS thru my pay account asking hey where is my money? I am in the first group of 133,ooo. After over 30 days this is ther response ITS BASICLY GO AWAY KID YOU BOTHER US go away Jim PS its Dear Sergeant XXXXXXX Thank you for your e-mail dated 15 January 2008. In an effort to protect your privacy, we are not including your original request. The VA Retro project started in September of 2006 with over 133,000 retiree records to review and audit for possible retro pay. Every month since this project has been started many retirees per month have been granted increases or updates to their VA disability. A database is being developed to process these cases but many are very complex and it is taking longer than anticipated to get these records automated. Meanwhile we are manually processing the cases in the order in which the VA disability started coming out of the retiree's pay. We apologize, but we have not yet finished all of the original 133,000 cases. We are working diligently to process your case. Unfortunately, we do not have a timetable at this time. Thank you for your patience with this process. Your information is in the system. We are committed to providing quality service. We request that if you need to contact us again, please provide a brief description of previous e-mails in your subsequent e-mail. Please click on the following link to begin your e-mail response and be sure to answer the verification questions: https://ca.dtic.mil/dfas/s-retired/ret1-pay.htm For further information, please feel free to contact us again by e-mail or by calling 877-327-4457. Customer Service Representatives are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time. Sincerely, David B Technician VA Retro Pay

Berta I am not service connected for anything haveing to do with the fire. I was a Aircraft Mech on a lunch truck when the plane went up. I had no proction gear on at all. Me and a buddy shot 2 helon fire extiguishers on the wing of the aircraft to put it out. Then i got real dizzy because halon takes the oxygen out of the air to put the fire out, Jim

I also want to say thanks. There are so many people on this board who reach out to everyone Jim

Get that NOD out ASAP, Ask for a DRO hearing. I use to think ask for a DRO review but now I beleive its best for a hearing let them put a face to a package. Then you can go over what you know is your good evidence Good luck to you Jim

Betrayed You are a retire and in the same boat I am. I sent a email to DFAS over 30 days ago asking them the same thing no answer. Good luck Jim