ptsd Need Help

[grent]

Hi.

My raring decision is in AFTER 3 YEARS OF FIGHTING TO!!! i got two huge brown envelopes one from the dav and one from the VA.

Currently I am tdiu. WELL WAS ON TDIU The Va lost my medical records those lost records were located at NPRC.

I'll just include the top sentence from the DAV the VA decision is to long. I applied for SMC LOOKS LIKE that was denied.

I dont know what will happen to the tdiu, so heres what the DAV letter says:

The disabled American Veterans (DAV) has reveiwed the most recent VA decision concerning your claim for benefits.

A combined evaluation of 100 percent has been assigned as a result of the following actions THEN LIST ALL OF NEW RATABLE DECISIONS MY VIET NAM FRIEND TOLD ME NOT TO LIST THAT INFO SINCE THE VA WOULD KNOW WHO I AM ON THE CPU?

then it lists all me new ratable issues on top of my tdiu

I wont list them because the VA would know whose making this post and i have a lot of other issues to deal with them.

I called my viet nam vet friend he told me congradulations your now a schedular 100 and you can go to work AND REAPPLY TO VOC REHAB VOC REHAB CANT REDUCE YOU BECAUSE YOUR SCHED 100 NOT TDIU THEN HE SAID OH RAH SEMPER FI OUTSTANDING .

I talked to the DAV and they told me if i want i can re-apply to voc rehab and earn a masters degree or go to law school I COULD DO THAT TO the dav told me also i'm a schedular 100 to and i can keep the 2 500 per month and go back to work

also they included va form 21-22 and VAFORM 28-1905 VA pamphelet chapter 35 title 38 something called Dependents

Educational Assistance Program DEA WHATS ALL THIS STUFF

Also the DAV said they will help ME and continue to use the left over ratable decisions from this decision to get my smc

even if i am and choose to go back to voc rehab to get a grad degree HUM MY VIET NAM FRIEND SAID YES TO

They said voc rehab may try to get my comp reduced but that they cannot do that because i am no longer on tdiu i am a schedular 100 MY VIET NAM FRIEND SAID YES TO THIS TO THEN MY VIET NAM FRIEND YELLED IN THE PHONE CONGRADULATIONS OH RAH SEMPER FI LIVE OR DIE

The VA decision has 25 pages of stuff it says your overall combined rating is 100% your compensation payment will continue unchanged.

My vietnam friend told me to appeal the smc get a masters degree and apply for a federal job under sec 405 of rehabilitation act the DAV told me the same thing they said smc is not awarded at VARO level but won on appeal THATS WHAT THEY CALL

SOP STAN OP PROCEUDRE FOR SMC

the decision does not say permanent and total but my old tdiu decision says no more exams scheduled because we found you to be permanent and totaly disabled??? WHATS GOING ON HERE

My viet nam friend told me i am elgible for property tax reduction and in some states i may not have to pay any property

tax at all.

Further my viet nam friend lives in a foreign country he asked me not to name that country and he said that the country he lives in honors his va letter and he does not pay property tax their and he gets some benefits cash assistance from that country on top of his smc FROM AMERICAN VA as well.

Can some body help me with my new rating decision and what i do next the DAV has given 2 weeks to make up my mind

should i go with a dro hearing or whats the other kind of appeal

DAV TOLD ME GO HOME READ ALL THE PAPER WORK FOR A WEEK OR TWO BUT CALL US 2 WEEKS SINCE THIS APPEAL IF I APPEAL IS TIME SENSATIVE DAV URGED ME TO APPEAL SMC DENIAL??? SHOULD I??? WILL I WIN WHAT HAPPENS IF I LOSE

IF I DONT GO WITH A DRO HELP ME HAD IT WHAT DO I DO WHAT WOULD YOU DO??????

PLEASE HELP ME I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO MY VIET NAM FRIEND LIVES IN A PLACE WHERE HE CAN ONLY BE REACHED

IN CERTAIN SPOTS DURING THE MONTH

MY VIETNAM FRIEND TOLD ME ABOUT A BOOK CALLED SOLDIERS GUIDE TO PTSD HE KEEPS TELLING ME TO RE READ THAT

BOOK I GOT IT BARNES AND NOBLE 20 BUCKS NICE BOOK VERY INFORMATIVE

SORRY FOR THE LONG POST I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO HERE THX

GLAD ITS OVER AND I GUESS I HOPE HAVE LEFT THAT MISERABLE ERA OF TDIU AND THE YEARLY MISERABLE NO WORK FORMS BEHIND ME

I DONT HAVE TO FILL OUT THOSE YA KNOW I DIDNT WORK AT ALL THIS YEAR FORMS

DO I STILL HAVE TO GO TO MY DOCTORS??? WHAT IF MOVE I MOVE TO FOREIGN COUNTRY WHERE MY VIET NAM FRIEND LIVES THEN WHAT HAPPENS

MY VIET NAM FRIEND TELLS ME I HAVE TO APPLY FOR THAT IN VA COLORADO BUT HE SAID IF I MOVE WHERE HE IS HE WILL GET ME PLUGGED IN HE CAN HELP ME DROP OUT OF SOCIETY FOR GOOD SO IM JUST THINKING HERE I GOT NO WIFE KIDS OR FAMILY NEVER BEEN MARRIED

[grent]

THIS IS ME GRENT AGAIN 1 MORE QUESTION FOR HAD IT CAN I GET TRI CARE

[Berta]

I suggest you ask for DRO review- watch the time frame of the response period.

They had to have considered you for SMC which they apparenetly denied.

The decision should state why they denied you for SMC.

I cant determine if you are eligible for SMC or not.

The regulations for SMC were probably attached tpo the decision.If not they are here at hadit and found within 38 CFR 1114.

[grent]

THIS IS ME GRENT AGAIN 1 MORE QUESTION FOR HAD IT CAN I GET TRI CARE

I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION SO I DONT TIE UP THE POST I DONT KNOW IF IM ON TDIU I GUESS IM SCHEDULAR 100 NOW????

BUT THE DECISION DOES NOT SAY PERMANENT AND TOTAL???

[Pete53]

Call 800-827-1000 and ask a Counselor to tell you if you are P&T it sounds like you are by what you said in your post. Since you are already rated scheduler it seems to me that even if your Medical Records are lost you can go to your VA Hospital that you are treated at and ask for all the records that they have and please ask for a copy of your "C" File you might be surprised what is in it.

Good Luck

[Pete53]

One other thing you did not say what the 100% was for. If it is for anything Mental you can't work and keep the 100%. Also you should apply for Social Security Disability if you have not already

[Berta]

If they made an award of Chapter 35 to your dependents in the decision-that means you are P & T.