Impossible To Fix.

[broncovet]

I sent an IRIS email inquiring status of my claim, because:

...An April 08 VARO decision says IU was denied.

...An Aug 08 VARO decision says IU was pending.

It did not make sense to me that, it was denied then pending 4 months later, when I had not re applied for IU.

So, of course, IRIS "straightened" it out right? No. Its worse. They said my IU claim was

"claimed January 2007, but then CLOSED July 2, 2007".

The VARO has NO IDEA whether my claim is pending, in appeal, denied, or shredded. I know some of my evidence has been shredded, but now I am thinking the entire claim was shredded, and they were reading from what it stated online.

Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this mess? Oh, yes, I have a VSO, and he is even more confused than I am, and I am WAY, WAY more on top of this than the VARO, in part, because this affects MY paycheck, not theirs. They KNOW when their payday is, and how much it will be, but they dont have a clue on my claim.

[jbasser]

Broncovet, how far are you from the RO.

Call your VSO and tell him you are headed there.

Rrequest a copy of the Claims folder and then request thru the VSO an appointment to sit down and go over the entire file.

This will sort it out for you. Take several statements in support of claim forms with you and a good working pen.

For each issue you find write it on the spot in duplicate of have the VSO copy it and turn it in.

Heep on fighting.

J

[hollywoodnc]

I sent an IRIS email inquiring status of my claim, because:

...An April 08 VARO decision says IU was denied.

...An Aug 08 VARO decision says IU was pending.

It did not make sense to me that, it was denied then pending 4 months later, when I had not re applied for IU.

So, of course, IRIS "straightened" it out right? No. Its worse. They said my IU claim was

"claimed January 2007, but then CLOSED July 2, 2007".

The VARO has NO IDEA whether my claim is pending, in appeal, denied, or shredded. I know some of my evidence has been shredded, but now I am thinking the entire claim was shredded, and they were reading from what it stated online.

Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this mess? Oh, yes, I have a VSO, and he is even more confused than I am, and I am WAY, WAY more on top of this than the VARO, in part, because this affects MY paycheck, not theirs. They KNOW when their payday is, and how much it will be, but they dont have a clue on my claim.

Broncovet...

Two ways to handle this...

First is call your Congressman/Senator and have them figure out what the mess entails. You'll have to write a detailed letter to describe your situation.

OR

Second, either call the National office of your VSO, and if they can't decipher this, then drop your VSO, and contact an attorney to handle this.

Personally speaking, I'm finding the quality of the VSOs' as substandard. A lot of them are overworked, understaffed and not detailed as they used to be.

The times they are a changing.

[john999]

As long as you have good evidence your claim can be fixed. It is just getting someone to look at it and read it. I would look at my C-File and find out what is happening. You probably have to write a letter to your RO to see your file. Where has it been since August? That is five months ago.

[Testvet]

I have revoked so many POA's I can't count anymore just make sure you have a valid NOD on file and if you don't I would be asking about if they shredded it and file a new one under the program set up due to the shredding mess, they are supposed to allow vets to refile papers they know they sent in but the VA can't find any more, I take my forms to the Regional office and always get date stamped copies back but I only live 10 minutes away so it's easy for me aggravating for the regional office though, they hate to see me walk in the door, I hired a lawyer last year and she is fantastic and I don't stress it any more, and she doesn't take any BS off of them either. I wnat her to make as much money as she can, the deal is VA lawyers get 20% of the award which is better than Social Security lawyers as they can get 25% but they are capped at 5300 VA lawyers are not capped but after 7 years I hope she makes a lot of money trust me 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing

[sharon]

Check with your VSO and see if he has a copy in thier office file!

[rentalguy1]

As the old shade tree mechanic once said, "There's your problem, right there!"

I sent an IRIS email inquiring status of my claim, because:

Do like jbasser said and go with your VSO to completely review your C-file. This will tell the whole story.