ptsd Should I Try For P&t

[tanker31]

I have been discussing the posibility with my SO ( DAV ) of trying to obtain PERMINATE and TOTAL status. I am presently 100% Unemployable ( 50% PTSD & 10% Hearing ). If I decide to go for P&T status, do I have to go through the entire process again ( another C&P exam, submission of documents, etc... )? The only thing I would pick up if awarded the P&T status would be health coverage for my wife ( which she has at work). Kids are passed the age of eligibility for education benefits. I guess the question is do leave a sleeping dog alone. What would be the benifit of obtaing P&T status? My award was effective December 04.

Input please.

[john999]

Tanker

IF you are getting SSDI for your PTSD you deserve a higher rating than 50%. More likely 100% schedular. When you go for your next evaluation for TDIU I bet you get a higher rating to 70-100%. The main thing is your getting paid at the 100% rate for now.

[tanker31]

Men and women- if Tanker at some point gets a letter from his doc that states in the doc's opinion he is P & T- with a good rationale in the statement and then Tanker asks them to consider him for P & T with this statement -would he still have to go through the whole re-eval crap again?

If the doc says this is getting worse and he/she has documented that- this is good to keep in mind Tanker- regardless of what you feel is best to do now-

Everyone here is looking out for you- on the P & T issue - I sure am glad you are getting the 100% rate.

Berta and ALL,

Thanks for all the input, however Berta hit the nail on the head---I would like to know ( if anybody knows for sure as Berta put it)----Will I have to go through the whole re-eval crap again? If it is just a matter of submitting forms, and the VA approves/disapproves the request , (and the current rating stays the same if not approved) then I would go for it. If you subject your self to jepordising current rating--then that would be an entire thought process. I think the P&T is inportant--we all know things can change in the future ( new rulings, new definations, new politicians, I could die in the near future --I want to protect my spouce as weel)

Thanks to all.

Tanker31

[Vike17]

"Thanks for all the input, however Berta hit the nail on the head---I would like to know ( if anybody knows for sure as Berta put it)----Will I have to go through the whole re-eval crap again?"

More than likely the VA would set you up with another C&P exam. However, if you submit treatment records from the past five years showing your condition is "static," then the RVSR may go ahead and designate P&T without a C&P exam. It's largely a judgement call on the rater.

"If you subject your self to jepordising current rating--then that would be an entire thought process"

Any time a veteran re-opens their claim(s), regardless if they are 100%, P&T ect...it allows the VA to take a look see at the everything. I'm not necessarily saying they will look at all of your disabilities at the C&P, but they could!

Vike 17

[tanker31]

"Thanks for all the input, however Berta hit the nail on the head---I would like to know ( if anybody knows for sure as Berta put it)----Will I have to go through the whole re-eval crap again?"

More than likely the VA would set you up with another C&P exam. However, if you submit treatment records from the past five years showing your condition is "static," then the RVSR may go ahead and designate P&T without a C&P exam. It's largely a judgement call on the rater.

"If you subject your self to jepordising current rating--then that would be an entire thought process"

Any time a veteran re-opens their claim(s), regardless if they are 100%, P&T ect...it allows the VA to take a look see at the everything. I'm not necessarily saying they will look at all of your disabilities at the C&P, but they could!

Vike 17

VIKE 17,

That's the information I was looking for thanks. Think I will leave as is.

Thanks to all.

Tanker31