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it just seem to me there are a lot of us vet on this site wait for transcipt. or a decision i believe these hearing are cost us time if u go informal does that mean its not tape and a decsion can be made or is just part of there game. and who does these transcipt are they all done one place. if so goto school to be court typer because the va will be looking for these lol

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carlie Grand Master

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slphelan,

The DRO at my Hearing at Bay Pines VARO

would NOT allow me to use my own personal

cassett recorder at the Hearing.

carlie

Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.

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Good luck on your hearing. Please let us know how it goes. I am also working with St Pete and have heard horror stories. They have yet to make a decision on anything I've sent them, so I can't judge just yet.......

s/ Mags

We kept our promise and served honorably. Now it is time for the VA to keep their's!

I am not an attorney or VSO and offer my opinions free of charge. Any advice I provide in my posts is from experiences I have had with the VA or I have the knowledge that others have encoutered. I accept no liability for this advice should you chose to follow it.

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Good luck on your hearing. Please let us know how it goes. I am also working with St Pete and have heard horror stories. They have yet to make a decision on anything I've sent them, so I can't judge just yet.......

Thanks still reading trying to learn how to negotiate this maze through the VA.

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A couple of things:

I'm almost positive that there has been a post on here that actually had the page of the M-21 or something that said the Veteran is absolutely not allowed to bring in a personnal recording device for the DRO hearing. That the recording will be done by the VA and the transcript will be taken from that recording.

John999 said that the formal hearing will not add or subtract time from your claim. I don't know if that is completely true, but the DRO I had told me that it was a minimum of 3 months to get transcripts back and that she wouldn't even look at my claim until they arrived. She said that if I did an informalm claim that she could start working my claim immediately. Again, I don't know as I chose an official hearing.

I have been waiting 4 months for my transcripts and raising hell via IRIS about it. Nothing so far.........

Also a lot of posts of others have said that their DRO was friendly and agreed with them about A, B and C during the hearing. My DRO said almost nothing and told me that she wouldn't even consider some things (like a CUE for an EED) that I brought up as part of my claim and that I needed to file new claims for those if I wanted them addressed. She also said (as I said above) that my file would sit there, unopened and not worked on, until the transcript came back.

Overall, I think that the DRO hearing is BS. My service rep sucked and said nothing (as he had just met me 15 minutes earlier) and the hearing officer was a total tool who took a defensive posture from the get go instead of trying to be impartial and allow a conversation to have taken place like a DRO is supposed to do. Get your evidence in order, have a list to read from, bring extra copies of all important documents and honestly just "hope" for the best.

Good luck!

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Quint7, I gotta go with John on this. It has been my experience that a DRO hearing really does NOT slow down a claim, if anything in some cases it can expedite it. Especially under the new Benefits at Discharge program where the are rating all the "new" vets at only a few VARO's and these are their permanent VARO even if they move.

Yeah I know startled me too, but I got a vet with a claim right now who is in that exact situation. They will NEVER transfer his claim to Wyoming where he moved - or so he has been repeatedly told. The BDD program was a great idea for the vet, and as usual the VA thought of unique ways to make it lengthen the process rather than shorten it.

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carlie Grand Master

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Sorry, I have to disagree some.

John999 posted,

"Getting the transcript of your DRO Hearing is not going to speed up or slow down your claim."

I agree with this because you have ALREADY had your DRO Hearing.

Sixthscents posted,

"It has been my experience that a DRO hearing really does NOT slow down a claim, if anything in some cases it can expedite it."

I completely disagree with this as a DRO - De Novo Review only needs to be requested from the claimant. It does not have to be scheduled to happen.

A DRO Hearing has to be scheduled to happen and therefor takes additional time.

I do not see at all how it would help to expedite the claim, besides the obvious

of being granted and not having to go to BVA.

jmho,

carlie

Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.

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