Email To Allison Hickey

[vern2]

Sent an email to Ms. Hickey today.

Wow!

got responses from VARO director at St. Pete, Nashville, and director of Efile storage/claims at St. Louis. as well as Ms. Hickey.

Stirred up a firestorm. more to follow.

Vern2

[free_spirit_etc]

Can someone give me her email address?

thanks

Allison.Hickey@va.gov

[vern2]

Latest update on my most recent email to Ms. Hickey:

Received an email from a Candace Thorpe yesterday. per Linkedin, she is a Senior Claims Examiner with the VACO in D.C.

"Allison truly cares about answering your email. She is reading them but has asked her claims team to help expedite your inquiry. We have also included your Regional Office Director.

Best Regards,

Candace Thorpe"

it is truly amazing what you can discover using the Internet. The last time I sent an email to Ms. Hickey, another person on her staff read it. I was intrigued and did a little Internet research. Found out she was Management Analyst with VA and type of car she drives, to include tag number, home address, phone number etc. Wow! So I checked and found out that my personal info is "out" there as well. WTF!

All I was trying to find out is who she was and her job title, but the amount of info out there is too much. I surely do not want my personal info available, but it appears that some of this came from DMV.

[Berta]

I sure hope the email gets this resolved for you .

SInce my initial email to Ms. Hickey, and after numerous CCed emails to me ever since, (from her to director of my VARO, etc) and to other VACO people ,who I contacted as well, to include the
Chief, Quality Review and Consistency (214C)Compensation Service ,who called me,

not ONE of them will apply 38 CFR 4.6 to my evidence...evidence which they verified they had since 2012.

I recently filed another CUE with IRIS. They also violated on part of M21-1MR, because they gave me no Reasons and Bases for saying the accrued amount of the retro will "remain unchanged."

It will be changed......when I find someone at the VARO or at VA Central Office who will read my evidence.

I emailed the Director not to call me anymore unless to tell me the accrued amount is coming my way.........she had called to "explain" the reason they didnt award the additional retro and her rationale defies VA case law.

They didn't put the "reason" she gave me into the decision, because it was ridiculous. How do I NOD a phone call?

I cant.

The US CAVC requires that we exhaust all means to get our issues resolved, regarding if we file a writ of mandamus.

I am sure willing to exhaust all means I have, in an attempt to find someone at the VA who has not been ordered to ignore my evidence,
and who can properly apply this basis tenet of simple VA 101, 38 CFR 4.6 to it.

I have fought back multiple issues over the last 20 years with this same VARO and have proof, the CAVC will see, that only by extraordinary means, in many cases, did I finally get my proper awards.

Maybe this is a new tactic of VA, reduce the backlog by trying to push widows around.

I know members are getting tired of my gripe on this but this is the fact.......

When you die , if you had TDIU or 100% in affect for ten years or more, the VA can say to you, as they are saying to me, that the 100% SC or TDIU you had was NOT Permanent and then deny your spouse DIC.

If your TDIU or 100% was not in affect for 10 years but you have a claim pending at death, that the spouse succeeds on for accrued, they can say the same thing to your surviving spouse, if they award SC 100% as accured., but wont pay because they deem the 100% upon your death, as Not Permanent.

So the TDIU or 100% disability is Total in your lifetime,but somehow not Permanent when you die.

All of my evidence proved a 1151 CVA as a Permanent disability, most of it from the VA itself.

It was not even an issue when I was awarded accrued under direct SC, 100% P & T SC PTSD, 3 years after my husband died.

I guess this is the new accrued scam regarding widows of vets...

It has worked on many vets,if they dont fight back........violate 38 CFR 4.6 ,because if no probative evidence is considered, evidence that would award the claim ,and that means means no comp or retro.

I contacted the IG because the Chief of Pen and Comp (VACO_DC)told me by phone, that the PC he looked at said I had already received 22 months of the 100% 1151 plus SMC. I received 6 months in 2012 and this results from a CUE on that decision.

I said "I think you are looking at my 1997 award letter'" for the 100% PTSD , accrued, but he said No, this was for the 1151 CVA.

So I guess I am a victim of VA illiterates at every level, as well as a VA fraud victim. Someone else got the additional 16 months of accrued.

I sure didnt get it. And my RO decision and the Director by phone, says I wont.

The Under Secretary CCes in many other VACO employees.

You might need to email them yourself as I did.

Only one of them responded to my email, the Chief of Pen and Comp,Quality Assurance ,telling me he would help.

He sure did.

The last thing I expected was that the PC he was reading from, and he had a witness there with him, forget her name, indicated someone else got my money.

He said maybe I should call VA Finance department.

I contacted the IG instead..

Edited June 13, 2015 by Berta

[Fat]

The VA wheel continues.

[MarkInTexas]

I'm thinking that they keep scheduling redundant C&P examinations in hopes that a veteran will miss one, and that gives them the automatic trigger to pull in killing a claim. Amazes me also that a veteran can beg the VA for years to get a C&P done, and then when he finally pulls his pennies together to do obtain an independent medical examination at his/her own expense and submits the results, THEN the VA suddenly wants to schedule a C&P examination of their own.

Mark

[63SIERRA]

I called the JACC today, and they admitted that the upcoming exams are exactly the same ones that I had in August 2013. WTF. I complained to Ms Hickey about the sheer number of exams, and result is that St Pete schedules me for 4 more, so far. The only thing tha happened after my last exams, and subsequent denial of claim is that I filed a strong NOD, and sent copies of DBQ's by 2 cardiologists, 2 IME's, and 2 letters. I just filed a CUE on this matter as well. Seems like they are trying to counter my cardio doctor's DBQ and letters.

I will post again after my exams next month.

I will bring copies of my DBQ's and read from them at the exam! I have clinicians guide printed as well. It has been my experience in last 7 exams that the examiners have a "game plan", they ask leading questions in an attempt to elicit the response they want to put down, not exactly what the veteran is telling the examiner. Do the C & P examiners lie? It has been my experience that they will readily lie to support what the VARO wants them to say, not the truth.

I believe the requests for CP exams is a cover thier ass move,,, The VA loves to pass the buck , so I would imagine when they are asked, why hasnt ANYTHING been done on the vets claim in 2 years,, a quick answer would be,,,, uhhhh we need current exams, and were trying to schedule them now..Im going thru the same bullshit... In 2 years ive had a SCAR examined 4 times, by 4 different examiners.. its really getting old..