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Monday is the 1st. It is not a Federal holiday according to the Federal holiday calendar for 2014. Thanksgiving is the actual day (thursday) that Federal offices are closed, therefore Monday is a normal operating day. The next DFAS military payday is Monday, 1DEC.
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Most likely, Monday, since it's the 1st.
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Anything you can download and do yourself, you should, as the Venerable Berta would say. No one can ultimately manage your claim better than you. Granted there are people at the VA tasked with various parts of this, but quite frankly it seems to differ by regional office how well that works. I never depended on my CO or my lower chain of command exclusively for stuff like this, either, nor should you. You have you to worry about, claims reps and raters have 1000 or more each (or whatever the backlog is)
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It took mine about 2.5 months. Remanded end of July, decided again mid October.
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Its not an automatic process, that Ebenefits updates. Keep the green card. Ebenefits will eventually show the records as they get scanned in there.
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There are several places where updates need to be made before a percentage is finalized, and Ebenefits is one of the last of them. If you ran your letter "in the last ten minutes": then it is not up to date at all. I would wait for the official notification by mail, but also at least 24 hours before trying to run that letter again.
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Weird. 100% schedular can still be employed, within your capacity to be so. "100%" due to Unemployability is not really 100%. You have something that is rated lower that 100%, but you are granted a mulligan on the difference between your percentage and 100% because specifically you are unemployable by their definition.
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Okay, but the other side is if one who is not quite right of mind forgoes
benefits because they think they are fine but aren't? Many of us want to work if we can. We can say "work and don't take the money...." but ultimately a mental disorder makes people think they can do all kinds of stuff they shouldn't. I guess, short answer is, don't defy your docs unless you have a lot of proof, our opinions. If they say you are broke, be broke, and take up painting or book writing and enjoy that you can.
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I get what you are saying, but the reg does not say that so until they patch it up, or vets start foregoing benefits on principle it will continue
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100% impaired to their standard, which is not the same as total lack of function or ability. If I take a math test that requires Me to count to ten by 2s, and I count by 5s, I chunked the test. I can still count, however, just not to the arbitrary standard.
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No. There are instances of veterans receiving retro benefits for far longer that 2 years.
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Do they still have the original decision packet? If so, just scan them in. and then they have all the copies they ever need.
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I always approach my C&Ps for pain issue as if it was the 'worst' day, and answer my questions as such. All my private docs stuff gets given to, or uploaded to VA as part of a claim so they are all on the same page-ish.
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If it is psych you might not, those notes can sometimes be restricted and you can only get them by requesting and having it approved by the psych doc.
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Thanks Vync. That clears it up. So, if I go back far enough to where my depression wasn't rated at all, yet, I was at a point where a 10 or 20% rating change would have made a difference (I know this because I had had something rated at 10%, it bumped me up, then it was taken away at a later point due to CUE). I would then calculate this forward probably to where my depression was first rated because at that point a 10% or 20% change would not have changed the overall rating.
Basically you answered my question, but I wanted to confirm because I was looking at my total now and saying "well, 10 or 20% now would not change anything."
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Is retro based only on total percentage NOW? I had a claim close last week, that bumped me to 90%. (actual percentage is 85.something%) The remanded claim is for radiculopathy in the lleft extremity. Im currently rated 10% in the right leg for this. Based on the notes, etc, im figuring 10%, maybe 20% tops for the left leg.
My appeal was from 4 years ago, when I was only 50% overall. If I'm rated for moderate radiculopathy in the left leg, bilateral, back that far, would there be retro involved?
Is it only based on if it increases my current rating of 90% overall now or do they go back to what I was rated then at the appealed claim started (7/21/2010) and start figuring forward? -
80+20% increase only rounds to 85, unless I'm doing something wrong....
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Got a call from DAV today. GERD/Gastro denied, Spine/DDD same, Depr increase from 50---->70%, appeal still on Remand.
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I channel any extra energy I have into volunteering at teh VA clinic where I go. Most of my issues are chronic pain or depression related, but im still mobile and I get around okay, whereas there are others down there that do not. I hang out with them in the waiting area, smokeroom, etc, and just ' hang' and talk.
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claim closed dated yesterday. Checked Ebenefits letter generator and im currently rated at 90% effective January, 2014. Haven't gotten the letter yet, but I was rated at 80% so something bumped it up. I have a appeal that has to come back to the RO from BVA, but I doubt that will net more than 10%,l maybe 20% depending on the wording for radicuopathy being 'moderate'. If rated, it will make me 10% 1 leg (existing) and whatever on the other one that I appealed about 4 yrs ago.
Anywho, a small win is a win. Ill take it, for now.
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Damn, son. Good on you!
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-Preparation for Notification.......-
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Went from "Pending decision approval a few weeks ago" to "Gathering evidence" again.....then today, switched back to "Pending decision approval". Maybe something soon, for good or ill. It looks like this is the claim ive had pending for about a year. The appeal has disappeared from the Appeals screen, and the current claim screen. Might they have rolled it up together into one claim?
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December 1 2014 Direct Deposit Pay Date Please.
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SO am I.
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