Bva And Amc

[JoAnn]

Hi all again. After receiving the letter stating that I was going to be denied my claim at the BVA I wrote all of you and you had excellent advice. However, based on what you all told me and what has happened I am very confused.

I filed my claim in the Reno Nevada Regional Office. My appeal was done through the traveling board. I finally got a C&P ordered from the BVA. It was returned for further clarification and the doctor for the C&P was in my favor and then stated it again for the BVA. The next thing I knew I received a letter from the Seattle Regional Office stating that my claim was going to be denied and gave me 30 days to respond. I sent them a copy of all of my specific evidence based on their denial. Today I called the AMC and was told that a decision was made on my claim and that it had been sent to the DAV Washington office for review. I was then told that the decision would be sent back to the AMC who would forward it to Reno Regional Office for disemination. My DAV officer here in Vegas told me that that was standard protocal and that it would take another two to three months for me to know what the decission was. So here are my questions:

1. The denial came from a rating board out of Seattle. I understood that my claim could not leave Washington once it had gone there.

2. The denial overturned the judges opinion. The judge found a service connection and that is why I finally got a C&P exam. In fact it was returned just to verify that the doctor also found a connection.

3. The denial went over the top in calling me a liar and stated that I did not have anything in my files to support the claim at all. That is when I sent them all of the evidence again, hilighted so they would not need to read it all but would see that I did fit within the guidlines of service connection.

4. The DAV in Washington is reviewing the decision for errors. Is this routine?

5. Reno will be the one to issue the decission. How can one office issue a decission from another office?

6. Is this really standard protocal?

I am becoming ill with stress over my claim. I want to contact my stated Senator to show him the letter from the Seattle office and how slanderous it was. Even my therapist said that the letter went over the top and was very disrespectful of who I am. I need to know if there were any rules broken by the VA in their handling of my claim. I have read where the claim should not have left Washington and I have also read where the rating board cannot overturn the decision of the BVA. Your advise please.

Respectfully,

Jo Ann

[Philip Rogers]

I'm not sure but Seattle may be the regional AMC, for the VA's western region. You should get a decision from Reno, eventually, and if their decision disagrees w/the BVA it should be returned to the BVA, because I believe the BVA continues to control the case at this point. jmo

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[Josephine]

I know that there is more than one AMC.

I am not familiar as to where they are all located.

JoAnn call and ask the BVA or the AMC this morning.

One of the telephone numbers that I have given you can answer this question for you.

This may be just the answer.

Betty

Edited April 1, 2008 by Josephine

[JoAnn]

Thank you for the telephone numbers Josephine. I am going to start calling today. I thought that the AMC handling my case was in Washington DC since that was where I was told to send any additional evidence.

You are all the best. You all have been so very helpful and are keeping me strong.

JoAnn

[Josephine]

Thank you for the telephone numbers Josephine. I am going to start calling today. I thought that the AMC handling my case was in Washington DC since that was where I was told to send any additional evidence.

You are all the best. You all have been so very helpful and are keeping me strong.

JoAnn

JoAnn,

Leave no stone unturned. You will get there. The VA wants to makes things impossible.

Let me know how this goes.

I will be happy to help you anyway I can.

Betty

[JoAnn]

Well, I called all of the numbers that were given to me by Josephine. Here are the answers that I got back.

It is standard proceedure to send the decision to the service organization representing me to check for "legal" errors.

The people that I spoke to did not know what the decision was, just that there was a decision.

I will receive a letter from the Reno RO with the decision and that should happen within 4 to 5 weeks. Seattle should not have had my file and they do not know why I got a decision from there.

My local SO will not know what the decision is until they are notified by Reno also.

I will just have to wait.

This entire situation is causing me so much stress. Why are they keeping all of this so secret?

Jo Ann

[Josephine]

Well, I called all of the numbers that were given to me by Josephine. Here are the answers that I got back.

It is standard proceedure to send the decision to the service organization representing me to check for "legal" errors.

The people that I spoke to did not know what the decision was, just that there was a decision.

I will receive a letter from the Reno RO with the decision and that should happen within 4 to 5 weeks. Seattle should not have had my file and they do not know why I got a decision from there.

My local SO will not know what the decision is until they are notified by Reno also.

I will just have to wait.

This entire situation is causing me so much stress. Why are they keeping all of this so secret?

Jo Ann

JoAnn,

This one is news to me for my Service Officer is still waiting for his copy of my award.

But who knows, he may have received it and placed it in trash can 13.

Before our claims are settled, we are both going to be in our local mental institution.

My rep just told me today, The rater of my claim may be sending me for a C&P to see if I

am Competent.

Dealing with the VA for the last 8 years, perhaps, I am or have lost my sanity.

Always,

Betty