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If you got the Nehmer letter regarding potential retro there is a good chance ,in most cases , that you can expect retro.
I understand many have even gotten phone calls from VA telling them the retro they can expect.
Have any of you figured out what retro you could expect? The historic rate charts at the VA web site go back to 1977 but are not too easy to find.
I ask because I figured out the lowest possible lowball retro award I could get by using the historic rate charts for vet-spouse -child regarding my IHD claim. I also figured out the highest retro I might attain.
But this is my point.
If I am lucky enough to get a Nehmer phone call-right away I will know if they did it correctly.It will be higher than the lowball retro figure I figured out (based on the lowest SMC rate as accrued )
Then maybe I can appeal it right over the phone
and get a fast re do. I sure will raise Hell if the amount is wrong (they probably WONT call me)
Although Nehmer only seems to warrant the proper EED, it seems to me any rating issues can be challenged right away, telling the VA they committed a CUE. But I need to think about that more.
Also- a good way VA can skim our money is to forget dependents.I sure hope they are considering in these Nehmer retro awards that-in some cases the children might have turned 18 during the retro period and are dropped as dependents but on the other hand, there could have been births of other dependents (and/or step children added to the family or adopted children in the many long past years that retro AO can involve.)
It can be worth one's while to try to figure out how much your Nehmer award should be.
DUH I should talk. The VA made 2 errors on my stuff years ago and the errors totaled 40 thousand and I didnt even really pick up on the errors.
I did question them long ago but I made the mistake of believing the follow up letter I got from the VA.
They were wrong.
Years after that the RC found the errors and ordered them to pay me.
I feel pretty stupid that I did this. I should have paid more attention to the matter.40 thou is a lot to overlook.
I was so glad to have the claim resolved in 1998 that I didn't seem to even want to think about them again.And I should have really checked their figures right away.
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