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Caluza Triangle defines what is necessary for service connection
Tbird posted a record in VA Claims and Benefits Information,
Caluza Triangle – Caluza vs Brown defined what is necessary for service connection. See COVA– CALUZA V. BROWN–TOTAL RECALL
This has to be MEDICALLY Documented in your records:
Current Diagnosis. (No diagnosis, no Service Connection.)
In-Service Event or Aggravation.
Nexus (link- cause and effect- connection) or Doctor’s Statement close to: “The Veteran’s (current diagnosis) is at least as likely due to x Event in military service”-
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Post in ICD Codes and SCT CODES?WHAT THEY MEAN?
Timothy cawthorn posted an answer to a question,
Do the sct codes help or hurt my disability rating
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Post in Chevron Deference overruled by Supreme Court
broncovet posted a post in a topic,
VA has gotten away with (mis) interpreting their ambigious, , vague regulations, then enforcing them willy nilly never in Veterans favor.
They justify all this to congress by calling themselves a "pro claimant Veteran friendly organization" who grants the benefit of the doubt to Veterans.
This is not true,
Proof:
About 80-90 percent of Veterans are initially denied by VA, pushing us into a massive backlog of appeals, or worse, sending impoverished Veterans "to the homeless streets" because when they cant work, they can not keep their home. I was one of those Veterans who they denied for a bogus reason: "Its been too long since military service". This is bogus because its not one of the criteria for service connection, but simply made up by VA. And, I was a homeless Vet, albeit a short time, mostly due to the kindness of strangers and friends.
Hadit would not be necessary if, indeed, VA gave Veterans the benefit of the doubt, and processed our claims efficiently and paid us promptly. The VA is broken.
A huge percentage (nearly 100 percent) of Veterans who do get 100 percent, do so only after lengthy appeals. I have answered questions for thousands of Veterans, and can only name ONE person who got their benefits correct on the first Regional Office decision. All of the rest of us pretty much had lengthy frustrating appeals, mostly having to appeal multiple multiple times like I did.
I wish I know how VA gets away with lying to congress about how "VA is a claimant friendly system, where the Veteran is given the benefit of the doubt". Then how come so many Veterans are homeless, and how come 22 Veterans take their life each day? Va likes to blame the Veterans, not their system.
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Post in Re-embursement for non VA Medical care.
broncovet posted an answer to a question,
Welcome to hadit!
There are certain rules about community care reimbursement, and I have no idea if you met them or not. Try reading this:
https://www.va.gov/resources/getting-emergency-care-at-non-va-facilities/
However, (and I have no idea of knowing whether or not you would likely succeed) Im unsure of why you seem to be so adamant against getting an increase in disability compensation.
When I buy stuff, say at Kroger, or pay bills, I have never had anyone say, "Wait! Is this money from disability compensation, or did you earn it working at a regular job?" Not once. Thus, if you did get an increase, likely you would have no trouble paying this with the increase compensation.
However, there are many false rumors out there that suggest if you apply for an increase, the VA will reduce your benefits instead.
That rumor is false but I do hear people tell Veterans that a lot. There are strict rules VA has to reduce you and, NOT ONE of those rules have anything to do with applying for an increase.
Yes, the VA can reduce your benefits, but generally only when your condition has "actually improved" under ordinary conditions of life.
Unless you contacted the VA within 72 hours of your medical treatment, you may not be eligible for reimbursement, or at least that is how I read the link, I posted above. Here are SOME of the rules the VA must comply with in order to reduce your compensation benefits:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/38/3.344
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Post in What is the DIC timeline?
broncovet posted an answer to a question,
Good question.
Maybe I can clear it up.
The spouse is eligible for DIC if you die of a SC condition OR any condition if you are P and T for 10 years or more. (my paraphrase).
More here:
Source:
https://www.va.gov/disability/dependency-indemnity-compensation/
NOTE: TO PROVE CAUSE OF DEATH WILL LIKELY REQUIRE AN AUTOPSY. This means if you die of a SC condtion, your spouse would need to do an autopsy to prove cause of death to be from a SC condtiond. If you were P and T for 10 full years, then the cause of death may not matter so much.
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Berta could you please post this on Hadit..Jerrel
Judi Burns <nwflangel@embarqmail.com> wrote:
From: "Judi Burns" <nwflangel@embarqmail.com>
To: <unitedweroll@stardustradio.com>
Subject: Guest on United We Roll Today
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:01:09 -0500
News Bulletin From United We Roll World Tour Show:
Our deployed guest today is a Field Surgeon who is also a doctor in a VA back home in Ohio! His interview will start around 3:15pm - We would welcome your phone calls to thank him for his service and to ask questions starting around 3:35pm to 3:45pm, maybe a tad longer if we can hold the connection. First caller gets through. We ask that you limit your call to one question and remember this Lt Col has stayed up until the weeee hours to be with us.
Our toll free phone number for callers is 877-213-4329.
Hope you will be joining us for the live United We Roll World Tour Show at 3pm Central time today.
God Bless,
Judi
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1) Option #1 – To Listen to Current Programming:
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2) Option #2 – Live Show Auditorium:
You still have not seen anything until you have joined us for a live show in the Talking Communities Auditorium! You can communicate with the show host and other visitors in the auditorium. It truly is a great way to enjoy a radio show with video availability and communications among each other. So far, the response has been a 12 on a scale of 1 – 10!! And it is so simple to enter the auditorium. On the Stardust Radio website main page, scroll down to the Talking Communities box in the center. You will need to click on the download in order to receive the software to use this program – do not worry, there are no attachments or surprises in this software. The download takes just a few seconds. Then, click once on Click Here To Enter. Next, you will see a Login Box. In the login box, enter a name for yourself in the user (top) box and click on login – no password is needed. Join us in the auditorium for any of our live shows, whether you are listening as part of the audience or are going to be a guest on the show!
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To listen to our past shows, again go to our main webpage at www.stardustradio.com, and scroll down until you see a box that resembles the music selection screen from an old juke box. There you can scroll through a number of our past shows listed by the name of the show and the date it aired. When you have found a show you wish to hear, simply click on that show and it will play for you.
Select a Program and "click to listen" to any of the listed Stardust Radio 30 Day Current & Past Show Archives
4) Option #4 – Download Shows Aired In Past 30 Days
To download United We Roll World Tour shows which have aired in the last 30 days, again go to the main webpage at www.stardustradio.com, and click on the United We Roll button at the left side of the screen.
Once on the United We Roll page, scroll down a little on the left side until you see the section containing the current shows available for downloads. example:
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www.angelfire.com/ca2/arresteddecaymusic/jerrelcook.html
GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !
When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief
Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was
simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."
Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.
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