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Is This State Veteran Rep. Telling It Straight
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mountain tyme
I am still preplexed by this whole conversation or should I say debate...
My husband and I stopped by the State Veteran Commission both at our State Fair yesterday hoping to catch our state VSO that works in our town there...instead the State VSO that works up at the state RO office was manning the booth...so I broached the question to him regarding a decision that I received recently by the VA regarding a reconsideration I put in for. They increased my claim from 0% to 10% even though the condition clearly warrented a 30% rating based on the medical evidence in accordance with the shed.of rating the VA has est. for the condition. The State VSO told me to go ahead and put in for another reconsideration stating why the condition warrented a higher rating...I told him that I did not see any point because it would only go back to the same rater which low balled it the first time...the State VSO officer said that when you do a reconsideration it DOES NOT GO BACK to the original rater but to a rating officer...now I may be behind the times but I have been told by relaiable sources that when you do a reconsidertion that your claim will go back to the original rater and since the raters do get evaluated based on the accuaracy of there decisions that in more cases then not they will not change it...but if you do a NOD it will go to another rater who will check it over and more likley give it the correct rating if it warrents one.
When I told the State VSO officer this he told me that I was wrong and he should know better then I since he works up at the State RO office and at one time that may have been the case but things have changed and when a reconsideration is sent it will not go back to the same rater that rated the claim in the first place...does anyone know if this is true or is he just a good ole boy for the VA and not for the veteran.
Thanks in advance
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