ptsd 53 Day Decision On Claim?

[combatcamera]

I recently made a claim for a number of different diseases including chronic bronchitis, hip pain due to them being crooked, PTSD with which I was formally diagnosed and am currently on medication for and a number of other things that I have proof for... It only took the rating board 53 days to come to a decision and now I am in the Notification Phase, is this bad? Does this mean instant denial?

[carlie]

One more question, do they alway low ball people at first?

And how can you find out the results of your C&P's?

comb,

No - they do not ALWAYS lowball claims issues.

If your C&P was done at a VAMC, you can go to ROI at the VAMC and get a copy of it.

[combatcamera]

comb,

No - they do not ALWAYS lowball claims issues.

If your C&P was done at a VAMC, you can go to ROI at the VAMC and get a copy of it.

Thank you

[JHawks]

If you use the Charleston VA Medial Center your Regional Office (RO) is Atlanta. That's the Medical Center I use for my C&P exams. Atlanta has pulled some rabbits out of their hats, so it could be good news.

[evandc]

Over the years, I've had two claims turned around in under thirty days. Of course, I've had others I'd rather forget about.

Don

Edited December 21, 2010 by evandc

[broncovet]

I have heard about Shinseki "speeding up" claims, but, so far, its all talk and no action and pretty much Business as Usual for the VA. Shinseki is claiming to have reduced the backlog from one million to 250.000 and I find that unbeleivable, if not a down right lie. One person said that it was a manipulation of numbers explaining that Shinseki moved the goal posts to the 30 yard line making it look like he was scoring a lot more points. Unfortunately, the referees havent heard of touchdowns declared on the 30 yard line, so there is still a million man backlog...its just that 750,000 of them have been somehow "relocated"...maybe they were denied and moved to appeals, and there has been some "combining" of claims also. That is, if you used to have 3 claims in appeals, now you have one and they can be all denied at once. Electronics claims processing is not up to speed yet, nor is ebenefits. Shinseki's promise to "break the back" of the backlog this YEAR, is now that he hopes to have it done by 2015...thats called moving the goal posts.

[combatcamera]

If you use the Charleston VA Medial Center your Regional Office (RO) is Atlanta. That's the Medical Center I use for my C&P exams. Atlanta has pulled some rabbits out of their hats, so it could be good news.

Thank you so much for that I needed to read it 0:)