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Hello everyone, is the first time I write in here I apologize if this is not the forum to post this issue. I have a claim in that was denied and I was on time to present new evidence for it. Last week I gave it to my rep and he told me that he was going to gave it directly to the rater, is this possible? He do not talk too much so I leave his office with that doubt. Can he gave my new evidence directly to the rater. and if so what will happen next? This is all my doubt. Can anyone of you give me some advice or put some light in this topic? Thanks for your attention and for any comment in this issue.

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Hello everyone, is the first time I write in here I apologize if this is not the forum to post this issue. I have a claim in that was denied and I was on time to present new evidence for it. Last week I gave it to my rep and he told me that he was going to gave it directly to the rater, is this possible? He do not talk too much so I leave his office with that doubt. Can he gave my new evidence directly to the rater. and if so what will happen next? This is all my doubt. Can anyone of you give me some advice or put some light in this topic? Thanks for your attention and for any comment in this issue.

It is highly unlikely that he can hand anything about your claim directly to the rater, rating team, or appeals team. There is a process that takes place when the R/O gets your evidence. I don't know any rater that would accept and then make a determination on something from a rep were he bypassed the system like that.

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It is possible that he could give this directly to the "rater".

Many of the Veteran's Service Organizations have offices "across the hall" (in the same building, at least) as the VA Regional Office.

I was fortunate in the fact that my Service Officer kept track of my claim, and when he had discovered that it was up for my DRO "hearing" the day before the Labor Day weekend (on Friday at noon, before a National Holiday) and he went "across the hall" and talked the VA employee(s) that were gonna have to be THERE at my hearing, that it would simply be a lot easier (everybody could TAKE OFF EARLY) if they would just, like, you know, TAKE CARE OF MY CLAIM.

And, he did so by giving the hearing team a copy of two letters from my VA psychiatric team.

So, yes, Virginia, there IS A SANTA CLAUS.

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"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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If you have medical evidence that would cause the rating to be reconsidered, it goes directly back to the rating board.

"Don't give up. Don't ever give up." Jimmy V

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It is possible that he could give this directly to the "rater".

I know many reps across the hall that work for the VSOs and I eat lunch at the canteen nearly everyday with them. I will chat often about ways they can strengthen claims and sometimes I get call from these folks inquireing why something got messed in a partilur veteran's claim. But evidence still must sumbmitted by process to the R/O. I would hate to be the rater that made a decision on a cliam and then have my superviser on my case because the predetermination team did not go though the evidence.

If you are to have a hearing you can give evidence directly, but its still processed.

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All I know is that I got two letters from my psych team on the Monday before the Labor Day Weekend.

I had a DRO hearing set for Friday of that week, at 11AM at the Waco, TX, RO. I was to drive down there on Friday Morning and meet with my SO before the hearing.

I FAX'd both letters to my Texas Veterans Commission VSO on Tuesday.

On Wednesday he (my VSO) called me, told me not to come, that he had given my two letters to the hearing peeps and that they had decided that I didn't need to come down there, that they got together and decided my claim in my favor.

Two weeks later I got the letter tellling me that the Eagle had Officially Shit.

But, then, WTF do I know? Right?

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

Chief Joseph

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But, then, WTF do I know? Right?

You had a hearing and that can happen- it often does. Especially if you have a pro-active rep. The person that started this post did not state that they were going to a hearing.

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