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Sc Dic Won Over A Month Ago....no Notice In The Mail

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Unbelievable!

VARO called me April 23rd to say that I won the 18+ year old SC DIC claim.

"The letter will be in the mail to you....fifteen days after the letter is mailed, the check will follow"...

As of today 34 days later, they can't EVEN FIND the file!! I have received nothing in the mail and all my phone calls to the VARO Rep have resulted in "we can't find the file".

I have been told during this month long saga, "file went to raters"; "file went to review"; "file went to post department"; "file is in accounting" and much more. Only I have no letter and they can't even find the file.

I was told today that I can choose to "wait" or I can contact my Senator for help.

Judy

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Thank you smilen66; I will most likely attack the FTCA myself (at least to start with).

GOOD NEWS for a change; I have just returned from the VARO Houston and a visit with my new POA SO. The C file was in "the front office" and she promptly helped me resolve two issues.

1) My SC DIC Award did NOT include the money for the 8 year provision (100% for the 8 years prior to veteran's death AND married to the spouse/claimant for those same 8 years...) new SO and VARO Rep met me and said "administrative clerical error" will be corrected within 30 days.... retro money will be issued in a separate check AND the monthly award will be correct by August 1st paycheck".... ok, great.

2) New SO walked my form 17 down to the VA Home Loan Guaranty department and within 30 minutes, they handed me my Certificate of Eligibility for my VA Home Loan! WOW!! Incredible.

The SO and I are filing CUE for the big retro pay; will take some time as all claims do but it will be granted per everyone I spoke to...just a matter of gettin' 'er done.

We will now wait this one out. I have IME from BASH to go with it.

Thanks again to all those here on hadit who have encouraged me so much and followed my thread and gave advice. I am sure I will need more as I go through CUE and FTCA.

Judy

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Thank you smilen66; I will most likely attack the FTCA myself (at least to start with).

GOOD NEWS for a change; I have just returned from the VARO Houston and a visit with my new POA SO. The C file was in "the front office" and she promptly helped me resolve two issues.

1) My SC DIC Award did NOT include the money for the 8 year provision (100% for the 8 years prior to veteran's death AND married to the spouse/claimant for those same 8 years...) new SO and VARO Rep met me and said "administrative clerical error" will be corrected within 30 days.... retro money will be issued in a separate check AND the monthly award will be correct by August 1st paycheck".... ok, great.

2) New SO walked my form 17 down to the VA Home Loan Guaranty department and within 30 minutes, they handed me my Certificate of Eligibility for my VA Home Loan! WOW!! Incredible.

The SO and I are filing CUE for the big retro pay; will take some time as all claims do but it will be granted per everyone I spoke to...just a matter of gettin' 'er done.

We will now wait this one out. I have IME from BASH to go with it.

Thanks again to all those here on hadit who have encouraged me so much and followed my thread and gave advice. I am sure I will need more as I go through CUE and FTCA.

Judy

You are welcome! I'm glad I can help someone:)

Smilen

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Finally got my first check in the mailbox! YIPPEEE!!

Guess the SC DIC battle is over; now I will wait for them to correct the 8 yr provision they did not include in this payment....

And to file the CUE for EED............and to file the FTCA claim....

Onward we march.

Judy

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