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So I had a new claim , for CUE TBI for a review and reconsideration. Decided today unsure of outcome thinking it will be a denial of some sort just waiting for the reasoning this was filed on dec. 29 2014. The week prior I filed for a dro review with a hearing that's scheduled for August 20. So either my attorney did this on purpose to see what the DRO will see and get ready for the hearing. I know the reconsideration was done by just an VA employee but it gives him a clue of what might be to come and get prepared. I didn't think this could be done and to get the decision for the reconsider 2 weeks before the hearing is I thought unheard of but it happened and the decision is in the mail

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No Idea here! BuuuuuuuuuuuuuT, I would be interested in how you or your Attorney got a DRO Hearing in about 8 months. 3 to 4 years is the norm. I didn't get any type of warning or notification of my DRO Hearing until end of 05/14, with a Hearing date of 06/27/14, approximately 4.25 yrs from my NOD.

We need to know what kind of Magic Dust, you sprinkled on your NOD.

What does your Attorney have to say, regarding these recent developments??

Semper Fi

Gastone

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Some years back, I had a claim that was denied, and I very promptly filed a DRO request.

The DRO review sustained the denial, and it looked like a "rubber stamp" of the original denial.

The denial, due to "reason's", was clearly cause for "CUE". But, I had bigger fish to fry, since the

fight was basically over a small amount of compensation.

Things just sat there, for years, even after the A.O. Nehmer business that resolved most of the problems.

(Getting that to happen was the major effort. Seems the VA had neglected to give my name and claim details

to the court, as they were required by court ruling to do.)

When, thoroughly frustrated, I used the "nuclear" email option last winter, stuff started moving, and several months later,

a BVA traveling board hearing was scheduled and completed. Sill waiting for the results of that!

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