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Brother what i would do is this.  Contact local psychologists and psychiatrists in your area.  find one that is veteran friendly  tell them your story that you are homeless and trying to win your claim with the VA and that you need help with a DBQ and IME for your PTSD.  Find one that will do it pro bono or that will defer payment until you win. 

If you just got your rating.  DO NOT FILE FOR AN INCREASE.

Here is why.  If you file for an increase you are syaing to the VA "I agree with the earlier rating, it was right and correct, i just htink now maybe i should get more because of these symptoms"  Even if you win your retro will only go back to the DAY YOU FILED FOR AN INCREASE.

Now if you file a Notice of Disagreement and state you disagree with the % rating and that you request a DRO hearing and that it be expedited due to your extreme financial duress......If you win you will get the higher % rating RETRO ACTIVELY PAID BACK TO YOUR INITIAL FILE DATE FOR YOUR CLAIM YOU GOT LOWBALLED ON.  That can mean a lot of money.

So what i would do is contact a Veterans advocate of lawyer and see if they can help on spec or pro bono for your case.

 

As far as "beggars cant be choosers" the fact you are homeless has nothing to do with va benefits no more than someone who has a house and a good job.  There is no begging for VA beenfits, it is a BENEFIT that is CONTRACTUAL.

I have explained this before in a different blog post.  But you are not asking for a welfare handout...

When you signed up you said "I will do what im told, i will go where im told, if that means i might or will die, I am saying yes." That was your part of the bargain.

There part was to pay you a poverty level wage and give you great benefits like shitty housing, shitty DFAC's for food AND!!!!!! if you got hurt, in combat or at home, if anything happened to you that resulted in you being not as WHOLE as you were circa swear in day, then they take care of you and pay you for the loss. 

Now if in the future they want to say no veterans past X date can receive benefits or only if sustained in combat or in the line of duty, then thats a different story, not saying thats a good or bad thing.  What matters is that when we signed up they said they would do this, that the VA would provide us healthcare and compensation for losses. 

So now its time they live up to their end.  They have enough money to pay themselves they have enough money to pay you what you are owed and in the correct manner and rating.  So there is no beggars cant be choosers there is ONLY they do the right thing or the wrong thing.  They are doing the wrong thing and you need to correct that.  We on Hadit are here to help our brothers and sisters because the VA refuses, we use their tools against them and work in the system they have created. 

70% - PTSD

->50% - OSA (Secondary to PTSD)

30% - Bilateral Pes Planus w/Plantar Fasciitis

30% - Migraines

10% - Tinnitus

20% - Back

0% - bilateral shin splints

 

 

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