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Good morning,
I can do article linking. What web editor do you use? I used to work on the web pages of two of my prior employers, and I used to run my local elementary school's PTO outreach site.
How many are we talking about, or is it an ongoing thing to check and do regularly?
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Keywords? No, not really. If you have access to your Capri records (VAMC- you can download from MyHealthVet or VA.Gov) and/or some of your service records you can type up a brief synopsis of dates, places, and exposures, along with any key medical facts like date of original Dx, etc. The examiners generally don't accept information handed to them, and all of the above should already be in what was transmitted to them, anyway. Still, it will help you keep your answer to whatever questions they ask you on task and accurate with less rambling and trying to remember things, especially if you get flustered during exams.
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1 minute ago, Rattler said:
Isn't an HLR not a supplemental claim? An HLR (Higher Level Review) is a only reviews documents at a higher level.
My question is are you under the one year mark to file an HLR. If so on an HLR you cannot add documation like you can with a Supplemental Claim. HLR's is to have an higher level rater look at what the lower level one missed in you docs.
brokensolider244th can correct me if I am wrong
Nope, you are tracking.
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They are 2 separate claims. The HLR is an 0995 supplemental claim, while the increase request can be filed on a standard 526EZ.
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2 different conditions. One is breathing, one is polyps or inflammation in the sinuses.
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Sounds like it since it is a symptom of Parkinson’s (as they wrote it) and not caused by a different externality. I’d have to get into the nitty gritty , though, to sure since low back injuries sometimes have a separate radiculopathy rating.
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12 minutes ago, Rattler said:
Good to see you back brokensoldier244th. The below is a copy and past from Tbird's link
When does age matter in a VA disability case? Well, there are really two situations. For veterans who are 85 years or older, they will be eligible to have their claim expedited at a local Regional Office. For veterans who are 75 years or older, those veterans are eligible to have their claim, or appeal rather, advanced on the docket at the Board. And so, in those two situations, age can be used in the veteran’s benefit to advance their case and hopefully get a more expedited review of their appeal.
I blew out my GMAIL down to almost empty, including spam, trash, archived, filters, forwards, etc. I'm finally getting alerts again and not having email automatically shunted to 'trash' or 'spam' before I ever see them. Im monitoring it, and will gradually add filters back in. Ive had Gmail since it was 'invite only' when it first started. I think mine at some point tried to become sentient and tried to 'help'.
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VA Form 21-10210 – Lay/Witness Statement
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The specific decisions that you disagree with.
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2 hours ago, Vync said:
@Goofy I'd be surprised if they don't grant you the three months of 100% for the second heart attack. Also, if it prevents you from working, be sure they don't overlook SMC-S while you are out of work. I was already back to work when they finally finished my claim so I got the SMC-S as retro. Also don't forget to file for any side effects of meds you take to treat SC conditions.
Part of the consolidation may be due to the VA's stupid "pyramiding" rule. It is possible to get rating percentages for the hypertension and the heart attack, but because they are rated under the same body part, when calculating the combined rating, they would take the higher of the two when calculating your combined disability percentage.
That is a Congress rule, not a VA rule. 38CFR 4.14. We do a lot of dumb stuff but lets put stuff in front of the right people. LOL
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Maybe. If a doctor or examiner agrees, certainly. I'm not the person you need to persuade.
If you want to know what evidence VA is looking for you would need to contact them, either via the call center (1-800-827-1000) or through VERA https://va.my.site.com/VAVERA/s/ -
Being diagnosed with 'it' by VA doesn't mean it is service-connected. Unless you went into the VA and were diagnosed within a year of RAD just being diagnosed isn't presumed service connection.
They may be waiting for STRs, personnel files, deck logs, researching a stressor to verify it- any number of things. -
No. It depends on what 'evidence' means and what is needed. If they are requesting federal records, depending on where they are coming from and what they are, 1 month could be the short end. That National Archives does not respond very quickly. If you have inpatient treatment records then those have to be requested via different means. Private records are their own request, and the providers don't always respond the first time- we to attempt 2 x's. Investigative records (depending on what you claimed) can take weeks to months since civilian police and MP/CID etc. do not respond quickly.
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Not really, other than calling VERA (the call center) to ask RE: status.
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The 3M suit is civil and not based on individual medical evidence, but on 'class' of people that all fit a profile of 'having been in the military between X and Y' and 'presumably having been issued those earplugs', where some of the involved class experienced hearing loss.
Not everyone being compensated likely has hearing loss, so you would still need an audiological report that states that your X is related to Y. If you were in combat, or a noisy MOS, though, it should be a pretty easy claim, unless your audio hearing tests that are in your STR's don't show a shift in hearing thresholds. Right now your hearing loss on its own isn't bad enough to meet the criteria for compensable hearing loss. What does the decision say about Tinnitus? That's a pretty subjective one that can't really be tested for, and can be claimed on the basis of aggravation by MOS (if it falls into a class of MOS's that would be subject to consistent loud noise)
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Heh, BS in MIS AND MS in IT Assurance. At one point some years ago I had a CCENT, CEH, CHFI, Network +, SEC +, and was working on a CCNA before with decided I didn't need it to do TSQL conversion of live and archived Co Gov treasurer and Assessor data. Go figure. Now I work where I work, tried to go IT first but VSR answered first.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that is me, every week or two, when a security email about "don't open attachments" comed out....... Again.....
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Here's what I know of the process now.
Almost all paper files are at NARA (National Archives). If we need something we tell them and they scan it and send it, there are hardly any situations anymore where paper is used for anything. Even veterans who served in WWII, etc. don't have paper files anymore that don't exist in a secure facility or satellite of the National Archives.
I've never printed, nor touched paper once in the 3.5 years I have worked for VA- at the office it just doesn't happen. Anything that would be printed is being printed from an electronic document. I saw that twice in 2 yrs, and it is collected and destroyed at the end of each day. At home (remote) we don't have access to print anything or save anything on our computer for printing later, the capability is locked down and not enabled by Administrative IT policies.
When you guys submit stuff through VA.Gov it's already electronic, and anything mailed to Janestown is scanned daily and appears in its respective file usually within 24 hours. We get a notification that incoming mail was barcode scanned at Janestown before it shows up in your file, and we get a notification that the document is pending scanning at the top of your file when we open it for something so we know to hold the file and 'wait' for something, or follow up with Janestown if it doesn't appear.
The only people who have the ability to delete records are at the middle to upper leadership level, so, pretty much nobody below a Team supervisor or above in an RO can even request the process if we notify them that there is PII/PHI in a file that shouldn't be there unless they go through an Asst Director. I usually make an electronic copy and move it to the appropriate veteran's file, and then request the deletion of the original information that shouldn't be in there. I have to record the veteran's information (what file it was found in and where it should be) and then make a note of the alphanumeric document ID's of every document involved- those are something 15 characters long and generated at random when something is uploaded or scanned in.
I'm aware of the stuff in 2008, and the VHA thing in AZ in the later 2000s, so I won't say everything is hunky dory, but the ability to pull some of that stuff that was being done 15 yrs ago is almost non-existent now because paper files don't exist at RO's. Document control has multiple layers, and everything that is emailed back and forth is either encrypted or you get a serious nastygram the first time from IT Sec, usually within the same day- sometimes within the same hour or two. The 2nd time it's an administrative intervention of some kind, and if it happens after that you are out the door.
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Pretty much. I just don't know if regs for income definition at the IRS have caught up with the internet influencer economy.
Cervical Spine Rating
in VA Disability Claims Research
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What is the range of motion? There isn't enough on here to say. Have you looked at the Spine rating criteria?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/38/4.71a
CTRL F "Cervical"