Non Service Pension & Dependents Issue.....

[chrome_305]

I am currently receiving the NSC pension I didn't even know anything about it until early 2011 it took me only six month to get the whole process done.

I got a letter in the mail today saying that I could not add my dependents because I didn't have a rating of 30% or higher. It took the Va since last year Oct (when i filed for them) to tell me this and send a letter. Can some one shine some light on this. I didn't know I need to have a service connected rating of 30%. Currently my service connected rating is at 0% and I do have appeals in the system so i can get a higher SC rating. When I received the award letter for the pension it said that I needed to submit my dependents info and now months later.... I hit a brick wall :(.

-----------------------------------------------------NSC pension---------------

Also to get the NSC pension which I am receiving it says

In addition to meeting minimum service requirements, the Veteran must be:

• Age 65 or older, OR
• Totally and permanently disabled, OR
• A patient in a nursing home receiving skilled nursing care, OR
• Receiving Social Security Disability Insurance, OR
• Receiving Supplemental Security Income

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Here is a link to where I have all my info about my current situation if anyone wants to help.

/index.php?/topic/51620-need-help-with-claimall-info-inside/?hl=chrome_305#entry303540" rel="norewrite">http://www.hadit.com/forums/index.php?/topic/51620-need-help-with-claimall-info-inside/?hl=chrome_305#entry303540

[chrome_305]

Definitely call and write in and ask about the status of your dependency claim if there isn't one then tell them that you wish to follow up that way it's done within a year

Yea, everything was submitted with-in a year and the letter I received was for my dependency to be added to my pension so I thought.

I will call them tomorrow and ask them why I got the letter which makes no sense, why I am being paid as singe instead of being awarded my dependents when they spend seven months processing the claim.

The funny thing is that my claim was opened Oct 2012 it was suppose to be finished April 5 2013. Well around April 3 2013 the claim fell off Ebennies and I called the following day and no one had any answers. It was no where to be found on Ebennies. I think the VA got it all wrong since VA pension and dependents should be calculated per their Veterans Pension Rate Table.

[carlie]

Unfortunately, dependent comp of any typr is a lower priority issue with VBA at this time,

so I think it will take a while to get solved.

JMHO

[chrome_305]

Unfortunately, dependent comp of any typr is a lower priority issue with VBA at this time,

so I think it will take a while to get solved.

JMHO

See the thing is the claim was already processed. Well kind of processed since it disappeared from Ebennies. There is not even a history of it showing that it was closed. Makes me wonder how they just looked at my SC issues and didn't think about me being awarded the pension.

[chrome_305]

Update:

I called 800-Bennies and found the answer to what happen....

It seems someone didn't forward my paperwork to the right department. After the call today it should to go to where it should be. I wonder if I have to wait again and see my claim in the "claim received" slot on their web site. i hope not to start over.

Edited April 10, 2013 by chrome_305