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Has anyone here- after filing under the proposed IHD regs, or having been denied for IHD in past VA decision- received a developmental letter yet from the VA ?
Or a letter that states they might potentially be in the Nehmer Class Action due to the proposed new IHD regs?
This letter is described on page 101 in the NVLSP link I posted yesterday as to the new presumptives and Nehmer court order,under Appendix 12 as instructions to VA VSRs.
It appears that VA will also send each potential AO IHD veteran a worksheet that, if their doctor fills out, and they promptly return to VA -will potentially speed up these IHD clams.
I thnk they forgot about widows again.But I have not had time to read all of these detailed info as to how the VA will handle these claims at the NVLSP link.
With my IHD AO claim I sent them the death certificate and ECHO,EKGS etc, and all evidence that shows my deceased husband, a Vietnam vet ,had IHD and died from it.
It would appear to me that the VA could even save time but Not sending a VCAA letter to any IHD vet-if they "qualify for special review" per page 101 of the info.
Of course the VA has to determine that by reading all claims they had that were denied for IHD in the past.
(how will they ever get that done)
I strongly suggest to do what I did when I sent my claim in Monday- refer them to (and even enclose if possible)any past denials you may have had for IHD so that you can properly receive the earliest effective date for the retro under Nehmer.
It doesnt matter whether you claimed AO as the cause of the IHD or not,in the past claim, as long as VA can readily determine that your present claim for IHD is the same heart disease as you claimed before and were denied.
I had a BVA denial years ago- I had claimed my husband's heart disease was due to his PTSD and enclosed Dr. Bosarino's studies on that among other evidence of this type.This was in 1995 and I never considered getting an IMO nor did anyone tell me to.VA was different in those days.They could say a claim was not well grounded and deny and that was that.
I didn't pursue that claim because I won my other claims.
But I sure brought up the BVA information on that denial to make sure VA knows an IHD claim was denied by VA in the past.
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