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I've been reading through this board for quite some time. It's given me hope in my 5 year long claims/appeals process. So let me give you a little bit of the history first.

I'm a Vietnam Veteran, '68-'70, and decided (about 5 years ago) to try and get some benefits. I never thought it would ever work, or was worth it, but my wife finally convinced my crazy ass to at least try. So, I go in and they evaluate me to all hell and back and give me an initial GAF score of 49 and 30%. I appealed this and they denied it. I appealed it again and have been waiting for about 2 years on a decision. Oh man can they shuffle you around, yikes. Anyway, I recieved the big brown envelope today and just figured it was a newsletter or something. The front page said " Dear Appellent, The board of appeals has made a decision on your case". Then for about 5 pages it talks about what my shrink said and all kinds of stuff that is beyond me. Then it comes to the "Conclusion" page and it says stuff like "In light of the foregoing, the board concludes that the criteria for entitlement to an intitial 70% evaluation for PTSD, prior to may 16 2006, and an initial 100% for PTSD from May 16 2006, have been met." Then it says a bunch of stuff I don't understand then at the end of the page it says Inasmuch as the evidence in this case supports the veterans claims, such claim must be granted...then on the second to the last page it says ""Order"": An initial 70% evaluation for PTSD prior to may 16th 2006 is granted subject to statutory and regulatory provisions goverening the payment of monetary benefits" Then it says the same thing about 100% and then a Veterans Law Judge signed it.

Does this mean I finally get my well deserved 100%? If so, how much back do I get? Do I 100% backpay from may 16th 2006 till now and 70% before that? This is all so confusing, sigh. I hate this legalize talk, can someone put it in "dumb old guy" for me? Thanks a bunch!

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Ah....just tell the little brats that it's YOUR money and YOU were thinking of going to Mickey Mouse Land and if they don't shut up.............

(that always worked for me, anyway...)

Of course, that was 20 years ago, before the kid got all smart and got all them degrees that I kept paying for......still paying for......OH WELL! WTH!

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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BTW, one other thing.

When you think that you have the VA all figured out............DON'T.

Case in point:

I sent in my first claim via VONAPPS (the computer claim thingey).

On the VONAPPS they tell you you gotta have a bank account, etc., etc., then they ask you for your bank's routing number, name of your bank, account number.........so's they can "direct deposit" your money. So, being the good, compliant 'Merican that I am, I give them all this info, RIGHT?

So, they make a decision, grant me X amount of retro, ect. AND MAIL ME A CHECK!

NEVER, EVER, think that everything is going according to plan.

:angry:

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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From my understanding you should as well received compensation the date of injury or the date you first recognized that you was disabled. I would also try to find out what date in service you first injuried yourself. Even tho you didnt file a claim until 2005. I VA has a duty to assistant. So for example, if you got hurt in 1970 and went to sick call on serveral occasion for the same or different thing you should be able to prove that the inital onset started while in service. I would check on it. Might have a good cue or at least more retro coming for previous years

I've been reading through this board for quite some time. It's given me hope in my 5 year long claims/appeals process. So let me give you a little bit of the history first.

I'm a Vietnam Veteran, '68-'70, and decided (about 5 years ago) to try and get some benefits. I never thought it would ever work, or was worth it, but my wife finally convinced my crazy ass to at least try. So, I go in and they evaluate me to all hell and back and give me an initial GAF score of 49 and 30%. I appealed this and they denied it. I appealed it again and have been waiting for about 2 years on a decision. Oh man can they shuffle you around, yikes. Anyway, I recieved the big brown envelope today and just figured it was a newsletter or something. The front page said " Dear Appellent, The board of appeals has made a decision on your case". Then for about 5 pages it talks about what my shrink said and all kinds of stuff that is beyond me. Then it comes to the "Conclusion" page and it says stuff like "In light of the foregoing, the board concludes that the criteria for entitlement to an intitial 70% evaluation for PTSD, prior to may 16 2006, and an initial 100% for PTSD from May 16 2006, have been met." Then it says a bunch of stuff I don't understand then at the end of the page it says Inasmuch as the evidence in this case supports the veterans claims, such claim must be granted...then on the second to the last page it says ""Order"": An initial 70% evaluation for PTSD prior to may 16th 2006 is granted subject to statutory and regulatory provisions goverening the payment of monetary benefits" Then it says the same thing about 100% and then a Veterans Law Judge signed it.

Does this mean I finally get my well deserved 100%? If so, how much back do I get? Do I 100% backpay from may 16th 2006 till now and 70% before that? This is all so confusing, sigh. I hate this legalize talk, can someone put it in "dumb old guy" for me? Thanks a bunch!

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khard,

Just tell the kids the VA deal fell through - they upped your percentage just enough to

move out of the dump so the kids leave you alone.

Something all of us need to be reminded of -----is ---- our $$ and our disabilities

are no one elses business.

Example's: a neighbor, cousin, friend --- winds up pissed-off

at you or gets jealous of your circumstances, THEY WILL USE IT AGAINST YOU.

People, for what-ever ill conceived reasons, make calls to VA & SSA pretty damned often

and say things like - "Well he shouldn't be getting that money, on Wednesday nights he goes bowling and every Saturday morning he washes and waxes his car by hand - that's just before he throws a neighborhood Bar-B-Que and gets drunk, while he sells his VA medications out the back door."

jmho,

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Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.

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