Appeal Management Center/rating Special

[tank]

Can someone please tell how long to it take to be rate by a rating specialist

from appeal management center.My claim been at the (AMC) one Year. IS there any other phone

number you can call. Any Information would be Greatly apprecation

Thank you

[Pete53]

The AMC once was a good idea but now I think it is a penalty box. Another VA delay. If you have been there a year and still no answer you might want to consider a Writ of Mandamus. Its actually a petition to a Federal Court to require a government Bureaucracy to do its job.Writs of Mandamus have helped several on Hadit move the VA

You can get info on Writ of Mandamus on this link by Berta:

http://www.hadit.com/forums/index.php?s=&a...ost&p=50197

[Josephine]

Pete,

Thanks I took your advice and have the slow dial up service at present.

I have glanced and tried to read the "Writ of Mandamus". It looks extremetly complicated to me.

I have been at The Appeals Management Center for 15 months and going no where.

Does one need or is it in their best interst to employ a lawyer to assist one in writing this for you?

Thanks in advance,

Josephine

Edited June 21, 2007 by Josephine

[Pete53]

Josephine,

It may seem complicated but it pretty much a cut and paste job. Of course you could hire a lawyer but all you need is the basic paperwork which basically lays out that your claim has taken X long and that the VA is not doing their job and plead to the Court to Order the VA to do it soon. From what I have seen not one Writ has ever been issued cause the VA will usually do it before the Court's deadline to show cause why they have not done it.

Hope that makes more sense than it seems to me.

[Josephine]

Pete,

I emailed the Appeals Management Center and told them that I would be filing a Writ of Mandamus if they didn't rate my claim within 30 days.

I told them that I had been at the Management Center more than the 365 days quoted by the VA.

I told them that I wished relief and that I still could not comprehend how my personnel records were mis-placed in May and then again in July.

The personnel records per the remand by the BVA were finally acknowledged and logged into my claims file January 2007. thus causing further delays.

I want my claim re-opened to 1978 rated.

This may get me no where, but I am getting no where anyway.

Thank,

Josephine

[Pete53]

Josephine:

Don't expect miracles but it may give your claim a boost. I hope so. By the way you are not obligated to file a Writ of Mandamus either just cause you warned them. I don't think that they like having a Judge look at them even if it is one of their own judges.

Good Luck