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I filed my nod since i was denied for depression seconday to pain, I never submitted my medical evidence for my claim, So i submitted the nod and sent in the evidence and now i have to pick what kind of appeal I want traditional or DRO does any one have any insight on which one I should chose I have never appealed a claim before. Thank you all in advance. :rolleyes:

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A Dro review with a personal hearing is worth a million words. So far I have never run into one that is not kind, caring and interested in what your argument is. However, if you are not comfortable with dealing with the rules and regulations of the VA then as suggested you should get a VSO to help you with your appeal.

Went to a hearing not DRO but the VA officials there are a million times nicer than those counselors you deal with and your claim... Although after hearing a bunch of stuf fon here i am a Fan of BVA, opting out your right not to send back to RO, after you feel you have all the evidence of course, someone else can explain this to you as i dont know the exact defintion, but i hear DRO is not as supportive of the Vet as BVA is

A Dro review with a personal hearing is worth a million words. So far I have never run into one that is not kind, caring and interested in what your argument is. However, if you are not comfortable with dealing with the rules and regulations of the VA then as suggested you should get a VSO to help you with your appeal.

Went to a hearing not DRO but the VA officials there are a million times nicer than those counselors you deal with and your claim... Although after hearing a bunch of stuf fon here i am a Fan of BVA, opting out your right not to send back to RO, after you feel you have all the evidence of course, someone else can explain this to you as i dont know the exact defintion, but i hear DRO is not as supportive of the Vet as BVA is

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I've had both, won at both and lost at both, at various points in my claims processes. I'd recommend a DRO hearing first and if denied you can then go to the BVA. As for a VSO, I don't recommend any but that's because most aren't as knowledgable, ambitous, or caring as the LarryJ we have here. Your claim is your responsibility and in the end it falls on you. I personnally feel most VSO are worthless individuals w/little, if no knowledge and that shouldn't be allowed to breath the same air as us regular vets, even tho most are probably vets themselves. But I digress, here! You decide what's best for you. jmo

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thanks everyone for there help I will send in the paperwork and request the DRo hearing and make sure I want the DRO hearing In person. thank you and wish me luck I dont know va regulations at all but i do have a vary solid case with lots of evidence i have seen 3 psych docs for the past year and all have pinned my major depression on my chronic pain. so wish me luck .

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Kryptos -with 90 % now are you still working?

If not have you applied for TDIU?

GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !

When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief

Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was

simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."

Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.

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yeah i am still working I dont know for how much longer though I have missed alot of work these last 3 years. My boss is very understanding he is a vietnam vet, so he understands the life of a disabled veteran.

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" yeah i am still working I dont know for how much longer though I have missed alot of work these last 3 years "

I was still trying to work when my TDIU award came in the mail.

Part-time at McD's.

My boss there wrote an 'honest assessment' of my mental problems from the viewpoint of an employer, not a doctor.

I had several other opinions from counselors, shrinks, MD's, eye-witness accounts, official, government, historical documents and family.

TDIU came in 2003 with a effective date in late 2002 and the VA has not mentioned several of my separate pieces of evidence in their various lowball awards.

If I could work at all I would do so.

Being totally retired, at least in my case, sucks.

In your case 'I' would have been pushing a TDIU claim ever sense the total combined rating got to 40 percent.

Whether or not you expect to win the award any time soon you need to protect the effective date for the eventual retroactive award money.

The RO and BVA together shorted my protected, award, effective date by 9 years and I'm not stopping until they give it up.

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It's up to us to help each other.

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