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Vietnam Vets With Cml Is It Getting Close To Presumptive?
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Type 1 Diabetes recent onset!
Marc14 posted a question in VA Disability Compensation Benefits Claims Research Forum,
I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in September 2017 OUT OF NOWHERE.
i am a Navy Reservist and deployed in later 2009 to mid 2010 and again later 2014 to mid 2015; had a 2 year recall between those deployments.
Only healthcare received since commissioning in 2008 was from the Navy and no issues EVER.
insulin dependent and have dietary restrictions and in a non deployable status.
VA denied initial claim due to Type 1 not showing on active duty and now appealing.
Anyone with successful experience getting a rating with my circumstances? I live in Upstate New York.-
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Agent Orange Kadena Afb Okinawa
clynch726 posted a question in Agent Orange,
I am looking for anyone who was on Kadena AFB, Okinawa or .Chanute AFB, IL. My dad was there from Oct. 68-April 70. He has ichemic heart disease, diabetes which has resulted in the amputation of his right leg below the knee and peripheral neuropathy. We were denied in 2002 AMVETS filed a claim on his behalf for heart condition, diabetes and back problems. I refiled in December 2011 and have just received the claim statements and medical release forms. I am familiar with filling out this paper work because my husband is a combat veteran of Iraqi Freedom. I have been reading articles from the Japan times and I am a member of the Agent Orange Okinawa facebook page. Another thing that helps make my dad's case is that he was on Chanute AFB, IL and it is on the EPA Superfund list and has PCBs/Pesticides and Dioxins/Furans listed as ground and water contaminants. I welcome any advice, tips or articles that I may have missed in my own research.-
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CBO Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2019 to 2028 Published Dec 2018
Tbird posted a topic in VA Disability Claims Articles and VA News,
CBO Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2019 to 2028 - This CBO Report has been making the news. This post includes parts relevant to veterans. Nothing has been decided as of yet and some seem very unlikely but you never know. Forewarned is Forearmed.
https://www.hadit.com/cbo-options-for-reducing-the-deficit-2019-to-2028-published-dec-2018/-
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2019 Veterans Benefits
Tbird posted a question in VA Disability Compensation Benefits Claims Research Forum,
State Benefits, Space A and More ... https://www.hadit.com/2019-changes-to-veterans-benefits-state-and-federal/-
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Appeal granted and closed.
Renegade87 posted a question in Appealing Your Veterans Compensation Disability Claims NOD, DRO, BVA, USCAVC,
My appeal was granted and closed on November 9. I got an unofficial notification from the DAV on November 15 stating "appeal granted with an evaluation of 30%" which is great! My question is this: How long until I get the official notification from the va? Nothing on ebennies has updated since the appeal closed. Appeal is now in historical and just says complete and at originating va office. I understand no one knows va timelines to a tee but a general timeline would be great. Thank you all! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Edit: This was my first time appealing and it was a VBA grant.-
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I received my denial last week. I have appt with my oncologist this afternoon (at VA). Have had contact with ExecDir of National CML Society, plan to work with him in finding medical experts to aid in establishing nexus for appeal. VFW Service Officer is not at all optimistic -- are any of them ever optimistic? Must be what they see all the time. Kind of like an ugly guy trying to pick up a woman at a bar -- eventually he expects rejection.
Here is the Facebook page where I have links to VA appeal docs, other info that can help anyone with CML. I desperately need to find fellow CML sufferers.
http://www.facebook....4598584147?ap=1
As an aside, the VSO was so negative about any claim I would have for my IPF (my other incurable disease -- Pulmonary Fibrosis) that he would not even take out a claim form. Flat told me that VA would say it was my smoking 25 years ago. Even my pulmonologists are not that negative. I had intended to volunteer to become a VSO, but not so sure. The negativism that becomes a part of that job worries me, with all the diseases I have I definitely do not need another negative in my life.
Please, any CML survivors or NOK, come to my website. I even have TWO children of Vietnam Vet BOTH with CML. CML is NOT a hereditary cancer!! I have a NOK who died of CML who lived in Ohio, and the VSO she spoke to would not even help her with a claim saying the VA would deny it because he lived in Ohio, a FARM state!! First VA goes to no proof of environmental links (there are plenty -- when cited on appeals they are accepted); and then they go to other possible environmental factors. Talk about having it both ways!
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