Got The Dreaded Vcaa Letter And

[Guest Jim S.]

Read through the VCAA letter and form and just as I suspected, For a claim for reconsideration, it reads more like a new claim to reopen with new and material evidence.

Weather permitting, I am going into see my DVA Rep and give him an ear full and I may well pull his POA if I don't hear what I want to.

I plan to ask for a personal hearing with the Rating Officer to get one question answered and their too, if I don't get the answer I am looking for, I am withdrawing my claim for reconsideration and having my CUE claim reinstated. If they won't fix their mistakes, I will certainly try my best, to do it for them.

I think they just want to play around with me and hope I will go away, and that is not going to be the case, this time.

Any advise and/or suggestions at this stage would be helpfull, I think.

Jim S. :)

[Alex]

Tom --

Re: The VCAA was designed as another excuse to send out another stupid letter that accomplishes nothing more than to cause another DELAY.

Does it work?The government gets to keep your money a little longer becasuse the claims process is now a little longer.

As long as the VA can do anything they want to they don't really need the help but, congress gets to do the

Tom –

Not necessarily true. The VCAA has turned out to be the Lawyers’ Relief Bill of 2000, because your lawyer Ken Carpenter just brings appeals and appeals against it, some of which win and others don’t. Dinginess was one of his cases. And everyone in the bar has been railing at VA to make VCAA notices more claim-specific.

Maybe Congress was concerned with unrepresented vets when it enacted the VCAA, since every service officer who does not know what goes into a claim should get another day job. But, until VCAA notices become more claim-specific, most of the contents are lost on unrepresented vets.

My motto is, if your claim is complete, to waive the time limit and ask for a speedy resolution of your claim.

Alex