#1Cavtrooper Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 (edited) My claim filed January 2011 was adjuticated in two parts...... May 2012..... and four items were finished on October 4, 2012 to include IU. But then my claim was complete but not CLOSED? Instead another claim opened by Houston Varo was listed on ebenefits as Administrative Review. Well, today I get another (this is my third one) Big Brown envelope in the mail. And low and behold Houston did the right thing by me and awarded me SMC. It states "We granted entitlement to special monthly compensation effective January 28, 2011 because you are housebound." I don't know what to say but.......... Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Edited December 22, 2012 by #1Cavtrooper Why arrive at the grave relatively unscaithed, rather than to skid in sideways yelling "Holy Crap! What a Ride!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bm6546 Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 My claim filed January 2011 was adjuticated in two parts...... May 2012..... and four items were finished on October 4, 2012 to include IU. But then my claim was complete but not CLOSED? Instead another claim opened by Houston Varo was listed on ebenefits as Administrative Review. Well, today I get another (this is my third one) Big Brown envelope in the mail. And low and behold Houston did the right thing by me and awarded me SMC. It states "We granted entitlement to special monthly compensation effective January 28, 2011 because you are housebound." I don't know what to say but.......... Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Congratulations on your decision. Have a Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year. I've waited this long and I'm not giving up....NEVER!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Cav, WOW - nice to read about positive adjudication ! Live Your Life . . . Spend Wisely . . . Enjoy what and when you can. Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolInvictus Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Immutable law of VA #1 this battle is neither for the. Swift nor the strong, it is for the patient. Congrats Cav and a very merrychristmas to you An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.- Thomas Paine. "In reply to the detractors of Thomas Paine claiming he was an infidel and a radical who did nothing but tear down established and hallowed institutions without building up anything valuable in their place, I quote Robert G. Ingersoll in his immortal epitaph to that grand defender of liberty and reason- "Is it nothing to make men wipe the dust from their swollen knees, the tears from their blanched and furrowed cheeks? Is it a small thing to (rid) the heavens of an (insatiable) monster and write upon the eternal dome, glittering with stars, the grand word- FREEDOM ...Is it a small thing to make men truly free- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice, and power- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?...a few more years- a few more brave men- a few more rays of light, and mankind will venerate the memory of him who said: Any system of religion that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system... The world is my country, and to do good my religion". That man is my hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#1Cavtrooper Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Btw... Here are the Reasons For Decision: Entitlement to special monthly compensation is warranted in this case because criteria regarding Housebound have been met on account of post traumatic stress disorder with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and alcohol abuse in sustained remission granted total evaluation based on individual unemployability and additional service-connected disabilitity(ies) of degenerative joint disease of lumber spine, degenerative disc disease of cervical spine, and radiculopathy of bilateral upper extremities, independently ratable at 60 percent or more from January 28, 2011. Why arrive at the grave relatively unscaithed, rather than to skid in sideways yelling "Holy Crap! What a Ride!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cham1968 Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 #1 Cavtrooper Congratulations to you that is outstanding. Stay in treatment and continue to get better. God bless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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