Well, I Did It............

[LarryJ]

May G-d Guide Me.

And may your prayers be with me, that I will "Do The Right Thing", and, maybe, just maybe, help a fellow vet.

[carlie]

Everything highlighted, signed, dated, delivered! Yeah, it'll take time, but a couple months spent on this end will mean a couple years less on the waiting end.

Larry,

I feel this is a key issue - claim filed with all documentation from the get-go.

Now..... how do we teach them to read, comprehend and stay away from shredders?

carlie

[LarryJ]

Larry,

I feel this is a key issue - claim filed with all documentation from the get-go.

Now..... how do we teach them to read, comprehend and stay away from shredders?

carlie

Just as the IRS does not audit EVERY single tax return, EVERY year, but takes a sampling of ALL the tax returns EACH year, so should the VA in the claims that they receive.

Yes, the IRS does employ specially constructed software to "spit-out" obviously questionable returns, so should the VA employ similiar software to high-light those claims that have dubious merit.

My contention is, if the IRS can handle MILLIONS of returns EACH and EVERY year.................whazzzup wit de VA?

Maybe we should sub-contract out the growing pile of VA claims, TO THE IRS?

Sometimes I wonder about these new fangled inventions, like computers. I don't wonder about the computers, I wonder about the organizations that ain't quite got them figured out YET! Seems to me like, AFTER THIRTY YEARS, we'd be PAST THE PAPERWORK? huh?

But, as was pointed out so eloquently, here, not too long ago, all I know about is addin', subtractin' and drawing straight lines on paper!

[Commander Bob]

Larry - congrats.

I notice the letter states something to the effect of

you may inspect the claim folder of a claimant that has

provided POA to your organization

and you must observe the limitations imposed by VA regulations

in disclosing information to the claimant and other's.

Question:

What type of information might be in a claimant's file that you

would be limited in discussing with that claimant ?

carlie

Last year, when I went to my NSOs office to get a copy of my "Rating Decision", for CRSC purposes. I was told that the VA rating specialist's name had to be blacked out for discloser reasons. ???

[LarryJ]

Last year, when I went to my NSOs office to get a copy of my "Rating Decision", for CRSC purposes. I was told that the VA rating specialist's name had to be blacked out for discloser reasons. ???

Bob, is that a question? If so, please elaborate..........my mind is full of anti-histamine this AM.

[Commander Bob]

Larry - congrats.

...Question:

What type of information might be in a claimant's file that you

would be limited in discussing with that claimant ?

carlie

Best wishes in your new project LarryJ.

My response was to carlie's question to you regarding "what kind of information might be in a claimant's file that you would be limited in discussing with a claimant?" I added the question marks at the end of my post because I could not confirm the NSO's remarks about not being allowed to disclose the rater's name to the claimant.

Edited October 15, 2009 by Commander Bob 92-93

[LarryJ]

Best wishes in your new project LarryJ.

My response was to carlie's question to you regarding "what kind of information might be in a claimant's file that you would be limited in discussing with a claimant?" I added the question marks at the end of my post because I could not confirm the NSO's remarks about not being allowed to disclose the rater's name to the claimant.

Well, I've gone through the "restrictions" placed on the VSO's and the SO's and, after reading the CFR's concerning this, I've yet to find any truly restrictive rulings concerning what a SO (and VSO) cannot disclose to the veteran. I think some of these so-called restrictions are not really THERE, in the CFR's or the Policy and Procedures of any of the VSO's, or, for that matter, within the VA. Some of them are created out of thin air for someone's benefit, and to another someone's detriment, I'm sure.

In other words, if you don't happen to be in the mood to get up off yer dead ass, then make something up!