ptsd Need Help

[Keidan]

Hi everyone great info on this site I'm a gulf war vet and file a claim for ptsd and was denied but the kicker is the VA enrolled me in a ptsd class and I'm seeing a pycogogist for something they say I don't have!? need input on what to do.

[Buck52]

check with your VAMC director! or ask the ptsd Dr why?

if you don't have ptsd or any form of depression they need to give you an answer why your enrolled in these ptsd classes.

jmo

...............Buck

[Keidan]

Thanks buck I will do just that tomorrow and again to everyone on hadit I know it's been a long journey dealing with the incompletent of the Va.

[broncovet]

Dont feel bad. At least one estimate is they deny 85% of first time claimants. The US Supreme Court Justice, Roberts said it this way (in reference to the VA taking a position against Veterans) :

ROBERTS: So whenever it really makes a difference, 70 percent of the time the government's position is substantially unjustified?

ROBERTS: Well that's really startling, isn't it? In litigating with veterans, the government more often than not takes a position that is substantially unjustified?

YANG: It is an unfortunate number, Your Honor. And it is -- it's accurate.

Bart Stichman, co-executive director of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, said he thinks the percentage is greater than the government’s number.

“That means the quality of decisionmaking at the Board of Veterans Appeals is not very good,” he said. “We’ve been saying that for years. The number means not only did they wrongly decide the case but their position wasn’t substantially justified. Not too good.”

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/02/roberts-startled-by-government-errors-in-vet-cases.html

Edited July 28, 2015 by broncovet