tdiu C&p For Dmii Increase

[john999]

After filing a claim via FDC system on Ebenefits in June of 2013 I checked my status and it has changed from Gathering Evidence back to the Review stage. I call the VA and they tell me they are sending me for a C&P exam. My contention is that I should be getting 20% for my DMII due to the fact that I now have to take oral medications to control my glucose level. My PN is getting worse as well. All my records are at the VA Hospital in Tampa. Ebenefits showed that they claim to have asked me for a 5103 Waiver, and that I never supplied one. This is a damn lie since they never sent me a VCAA letter, but I made a sworn statement to the VA in December 2013 that I had no more evidence to submit, and that all my evidence was at the VA Hospital in Tampa, Fl. My VARO is St. Petersburg, Fl. 25 miles away. Now the VA blames me for the delay in my claim, the bastards. My claim was a FDC according to my understanding. A year to get a C&P exam which is probably not even necessary to grant my increase. Another chance for the VA to fail to notify me of the exam date and time so they can deny it. Is this stupidity or bad intent? I am not going away, so they can forget it.

If the VA can manage to take almost a year to do a claim like mine I pity the poor vet who is trying to get TDIU because he can't work. I did write my congressman, and that may have got them off their AZZ'es to do something. I don't normally interact with congress critters about VA matters. However, when the VA manages to screw up such a simple claim I just get mad because my claim was gathering dust, and would have continued to gather dust. I don't contact congress critters because it usually does not help. Maybe this time it did help.

The VA person said the C&P exam may want me to file out a disability questionnaire. I have never done that before. It has been about 5 years since I have had a C&P exam. The last exam took about ten minutes. Is there something new I need to know about?

John

[Berta]

Yes it is fairly new VAOLA John:


http://benefits.va.gov/disabilityexams/



"With Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) Veterans now have more control over the disability claims process. Veterans have the option of visiting a private health care provider instead of a VA facility to complete their disability evaluation form.

DBQs also help support VA's Fully Developed Claims (FDC) Program. DBQs are valuable for claims
processing because they provide medical information that is directly relevant to determining a disability
rating. When submitted with a fully developed claim, DBQs ensure the VA's ratings specialists have
precisely the information they need to start processing the claim.
Veterans can have their providers fill out any of the more than 70 DBQs that are appropriate for their
conditions and submit them to us. It’s that easy!

See our instruction pages to help you with the process. I am a Veteran - VSO - Health Care"

Here are the forms:

http://benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/dbq_ListByDBQFormName.asp

[Philip Rogers]

Good luck, John!! I'm at 20%, taking 2500mg metformin a day, and an a long lasting insulin injection, at night. I think I take another oral diabetic med too. I'm getting 10% for each extremity, for PN, but doesn't raise the 20% for DM-II. I've tried but they keep denying.

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