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tinnitus Disability/pension-Dual Claim?
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Ascomdepot68
First some background.
Filed claim for IHD due to AO exposure on 7/6/2010, denied on 4/4/2011.,Appealed with a NOD and requested DRO on 5/23/2011.
Filed claim for DJD, hypothyroidism, tinnitus, left ear hearing loss, seurm sickness ( they came back and wanted to know if I wanted them to consider stroke and heart attack, etc to which I said yes) on 4/28/2011.
Filed claim for NSC pension due to being over 65 and low income, received at Atlanta VARO on 10/26/2011.
Watch eBenefits daily. After 50 days I submitted an iris inquiry because the NSC pension claim was not showing. At approximatedly 1430 hours today received a call (after requesting email response!) from the
St Pete VARO, I had submittted to Atlanta, having moved here in August. According to him a veteran cannot have a dual claim as he put it. He said if I never had filed any sort of claim it would go to Philadelphia
and stand on its own. Since I have a pending disability claim according to him it has to be added as an additional item just like if it were a bad knee or something..
He and I sort of got into it, partly because I won't take anything they say as the gospel. Ended up telling him based on what he was telling me I would approve adding the NSC pension application to the list of
disabilities I was claiming. Sounds sort of strange to me but then sort of makes sense.
Have a call coming in from my Senator's office probably on Tuesday about a long list of problems I have had with iris people and their responses over the past year or so. Just want to get my ducks in a row before
I have that conversation.
So basically I am asking if it is or not possible to have two separate claims in at the same time, one for NSC pension and one for SC disability. Problem is with the time they take to finalize the claim on a SC
application the NSC pension will be stalled until the end of that. Was hoping for the $$ small though it was in the interim. If you can have separate claims, a cite on the particular CFR or whatever would be
helpful.
Ideas or thoughts.
Thanks and have a Happy New Year to ALL!
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