Dro Hearing Cancelled! Mother *********!

[Quint7]

I drove 70 miles to Buffalo today to be told "um.... your hearng was cancelled a week ago. NYS Veterans Affairs was told, didn't they tell you?"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear..... I'm gonna lose my ****

After my meeting in Buffalo 3 weeks ago I was told that my NYSDVA rep would get an a**chewing for doing a lousy job. he called 4 days ago and said "Hi, this is **** ****, call me about your claim." I got a card in the mail yesterday that said the same. My dumb a** figured it was cause he got chewed out so I went to Buffalo today and oh...... the DRO had something to do so the hearing was cancelled. I asked why VA itself didn't send me a letter and was told "um..... I don't know. I don't know if we do that so long as we call your POA and tell them".

So I pulled the card I got from my rep out to show them and they said "he didin't specifically say in the message or card that you needed to call cause the hearing was cancelled? Oh boy....."

I am livid right now.........

The guy at the dsk called the schedule guy in the office and asked him if he could give a new date and that guy said 'sometime within the next 6 months". He then asked if I could get placed on top of the pile and the guy said "I have 12 or 15 files here.... they get rescheduled as they came to me, sorry".

I waited 5 months for the first hearing to be scheduled and it was the one week of the year I couldn't do it (a wedding across country) and then waited 3 more months for this.......

UNACCEPTABLE............. seriously.

Edited October 24, 2008 by Quint7

[MRRRR5]

I am just numb...... I have been waiting for this hearing for monthsand months and now after nights of tossing, turning, having my stomach in knots, etc. to have them just say "oops" is just unbelievable.

I mean, if I don't show up at that meeting, I get denied. They don't show up and it is just toush S*** for me.

the regional head of NYSDVA is SUPPOSED to call me tuesday about this. We will see.... or with my luck I will be at work and not be able to take the call.

I would try and get the NYSDVA to give a time that you can expect the call on Tuesday if at all possible so you can inform anyone at your work that you will need to take the call on whatever number you expect them to contact you on (i.e., cell, work, etc).