tdiu A Question On My Eed........am I Imagining Things

[LarryJ]

Timeline:

08/25/06

"This is an informal claim for bi-polar disorder or major depression steming from my left ankle service-connected arthritis, pain, unemployablity, left knee and right hip pain and arthritis."

04/10/07

Granted service-connection for depression @ 70%.

08/18/08

Granted TDIU, retro to 04/10/07, the date of grant of service connection for depression. Paid retro back to 04/10/07.

My question(s):

Shouldn't the retro pay for TDIU be back to 08/25/06, the date that I FILED for Major Depression, and not the date that I was GRANTED service-connection for MDD?

And, shouldn't my TDIU be dated the same.......meaning the Chap 35 benefits should be "back-dated" to 08/25/06?

[deltaj]

Yup, they knew I was unemployed. They had 4 copies (one of which I finally got them to admit that they had) of my SSA award, from 2003........for the same disability as my original service-connected VA disability. I guess that the original THREE copies that had been sent to them, over a period of 5 years, were "spoiliated" (gosh but I do love that word).

Please visit your local Social Security office and request in writing that they send copies of your medical records to V.A. in support of your pending claim for total disability and individual unemployability.