ptsd Statement Of Claim

[Shark]

I got an 80% rating (50% for PTSD and the rest for agent orange related) in July of 2008, I filed for 100% unemployability and was denied as they found some website that said that I was an active member of a professional association, and I am not. I filed the NOD in October for a traditional appeal...our DRO is over a year behind. Now the VARO just told me that it will take around a year just to get the Statement of the Claim. Is this a normal time frame, or just my screwed up VARO in Reno, NV? Should I get my Senator or an attorney involved?

[john999]

I remember a VA C&P exam psychiatrist saying that based on the fact that I had an undergraduate degree in psychology he suspected fraud. I got that C&P exam thrown out but that is the mentality of some of these clowns at the VA. You could have ten PH.D's and it does not mean you can hold down a job in the real world.