tdiu Individual Unemployability Help

[awatsr]

Can someone please help me. I'm trying to understand what exactly the VA is requesting for me in order to receive Individual Unemployability. I kind of understand that they want statements. I'm just mentally exhausted. I just got my rating of 70%. My claim started in November 2009. Just trying to fill out some of this paper work is overwhelming and exhausting. I'm just trying to make sure I get it right the first time. The last time I worked was in 2006 and for maybe about 3 months a few years later. Just couldn't stay focused. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

[cooter]

It'll help alot too if you can get statements from your past employers to say you couldn't perform your duties because of the PTSD.

[iraqx2]

If I can remember when I filed for TDIU and was approved, all you need to do is fill out the form and the VA will contact your employer for you. I don't recall contacting my ex-employers at all. Good luck.

[Revelation]

Hello. Request your Veteran's Rights to have The Secretary in his "Duty to Assist" Click this link to read all of the law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=duty%20to%20assist&url=/uscode/html/uscode38/usc_sec_38_00005103---A000-.html Ask the Secretary for your Social Security and any Workman's Compensation Records, or other records which will support your work history.

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§ 5103A. Duty to assist claimants

How Current is This?(a) Duty To Assist.—(1) The Secretary shall make reasonable efforts to assist a claimant in obtaining evidence necessary to substantiate the claimant’s claim for a benefit under a law administered by the Secretary.(2) The Secretary is not required to provide assistance to a claimant under this section if no reasonable possibility exists that such assistance would aid in substantiating the claim.(3) The Secretary may defer providing assistance under this section pending the submission by the claimant of essential information missing from the claimant’s application.(b) Assistance in Obtaining Records.—(1) As part of the assistance provided under subsection (a), the Secretary shall make reasonable efforts to obtain relevant records (including private records) that the claimant adequately identifies to the Secretary and authorizes the Secretary to obtain.(2) Whenever the Secretary, after making such reasonable efforts, is unable to obtain all of the relevant records sought, the Secretary shall notify the claimant that the Secretary is unable to obtain records with respect to the claim. Such a notification shall—(A) identify the records the Secretary is unable to obtain;(B) briefly explain the efforts that the Secretary made to obtain those records; and© describe any further action to be taken by the Secretary with respect to the claim.(3) Whenever the Secretary attempts to obtain records from a Federal department or agency under this subsection or subsection ©, the effortsto obtain those records shall continue until the records are obtained unless it is reasonably certain that such records do not exist or that further effortsto obtain those records would be futile.© Obtaining Records for Compensation Claims.— In the case of a claim for disability compensation, the assistance provided by the Secretary under subsection (b) shall include obtaining the following records if relevant to the claim:(1) The claimant’s service medical records and, if the claimant has furnished the Secretary information sufficient to locate such records, other relevant records pertaining to the claimant’s active military, naval, or air service that are held or maintained by a governmental entity.<a name=c_2">(2) Records of relevant medical treatment or examination of the claimant at Department health-care facilities or at the expense of the Department, if the claimant furnishes information sufficient to locate those records.(3) Any other relevant records held by any Federal department or agency that the claimant adequately identifies and authorizes the Secretary to obtain. THERE IS MORE, CLICK THE LINK ABOVE. Try your best to handle your own affairs or "someone" could question your competence in filling out forms or managing your financial affairs. In your area, there are agencies which help veterans fill out forms or you can contact your local DAV.