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I realized that since I hired a lawyer for my CUE claim the VA has been trying to do an end run around my lawyer. The refused to send him a copy of my C-File. They don't send him updates on the claim. Now they send me the SSOC and they have not sent him one yet. I guess they think they can drive a wedge between us, or believe I will not let him run things. It is pissing me off because I want them to deal with my lawyer. That is why I hired him. I am sick of having to copy things and then send it to him. The VA is sneaky. I think the ST. Pete RO really is not used to dealing with lawyers and they don't like it. They think they can continue to get aways with the same old BS they have like with the DAV. I hope my lawyer sticks my claim right up their rectums. I don't believe they even understand the basics of a CUE. They have probably never granted one.

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I realized that since I hired a lawyer for my CUE claim the VA has been trying to do an end run around my lawyer. The refused to send him a copy of my C-File. They don't send him updates on the claim. Now they send me the SSOC and they have not sent him one yet. I guess they think they can drive a wedge between us, or believe I will not let him run things. It is pissing me off because I want them to deal with my lawyer. That is why I hired him. I am sick of having to copy things and then send it to him. The VA is sneaky. I think the ST. Pete RO really is not used to dealing with lawyers and they don't like it. They think they can continue to get aways with the same old BS they have like with the DAV. I hope my lawyer sticks my claim right up their rectums. I don't believe they even understand the basics of a CUE. They have probably never granted one.

John, john, john999 it looks they are making decisions with out your lawyer involved in the process isn't this illegal when you obtain legal council? But I kept on dealing with them and they like to put a hurtin on me. I think this is the way of circumventing the lawyer purposely. I don't know much but I do know once I have legal council my lawyer is to be contacted not my self. I would assume they think this way you wont fight it if they lower the boom on you like they do a lot of us.......Rich

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That's it, Rich. That is what they think, but they are wrong. I get madder every time I think about it. What does legal mean to the VA? You know they laugh at that concept, but we can jam it up their butts. At some point in the process you get to a court.

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