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2025 VA Disability Compensation Rates an Pay Dates
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VA Disability Payment Schedule for 2025
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VA Disability Claims: 5 Game-Changing Precedential Decisions You Need to Know
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These decisions have made a big impact on how VA disability claims are handled, giving veterans more chances to get benefits and clearing up important issues.
Service Connection
Frost v. Shulkin (2017)
This case established that for secondary service connection claims, the primary service-connected disability does not need to be service-connected or diagnosed at the time the secondary condition is incurred 1. This allows veterans to potentially receive secondary service connection for conditions that developed before their primary condition was officially service-connected.
Saunders v. Wilkie (2018)
The Federal Circuit ruled that pain alone, without an accompanying diagnosed condition, can constitute a disability for VA compensation purposes if it results in functional impairment 1. This overturned previous precedent that required an underlying pathology for pain to be considered a disability.
Effective Dates
Martinez v. McDonough (2023)
This case dealt with the denial of an earlier effective date for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) 2. It addressed issues around the validity of appeal withdrawals and the consideration of cognitive impairment in such decisions.
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Are all military medical records on file at the VA?
RichardZ posted a topic in How to's on filing a Claim,
I met with a VSO today at my VA Hospital who was very knowledgeable and very helpful. We decided I should submit a few new claims which we did. He told me that he didn't need copies of my military records that showed my sick call notations related to any of the claims. He said that the VA now has entire military medical record on file and would find the record(s) in their own file. It seemed odd to me as my service dates back to 1981 and spans 34 years through my retirement in 2015. It sure seemed to make more sense for me to give him copies of my military medical record pages that document the injuries as I'd already had them with me. He didn't want my copies. Anyone have any information on this. Much thanks in advance.-
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Caluza Triangle defines what is necessary for service connection
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Caluza Triangle – Caluza vs Brown defined what is necessary for service connection. See COVA– CALUZA V. BROWN–TOTAL RECALL
This has to be MEDICALLY Documented in your records:
Current Diagnosis. (No diagnosis, no Service Connection.)
In-Service Event or Aggravation.
Nexus (link- cause and effect- connection) or Doctor’s Statement close to: “The Veteran’s (current diagnosis) is at least as likely due to x Event in military service”-
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Post in ICD Codes and SCT CODES?WHAT THEY MEAN?
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A few weeks ago while in HIOT THerapy I lost it and walked out of the room. None of the staff came to see if I was ok. A brother vet came out to check on me and we walked the halls of the hospital and talked. I ended up back in the pysch ward that day, he came and visited me while I was in there.
The other day at the hospital I was standing looking at some hats they had for sale and I feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn around and the guy says remember me I said hell yes (He was in the pysch ward both times I was in there, I think he tried to commit suicide) Anyway he said get me to a doctor. He was all wet, he looked like someone had punched him in the eye, he had sticks and brush sticking out of his clothes. I asked him what happened he told me he had jumped out of his wifes car and somehow went into the huron river. He said he had spent the last three hours hiding in someones back yard.
I walked him to the emergency room and told the nurse I had been on 8west (pysch ward) with this patient recentlly and then told the nurse what he told me, they immediatley took him, and I said I would be back to check on him. By the time I had finished all my business in the hospital I went back to the ER and they told me he had been admitted. I went up to the pysch ward and checked on him, This ment the world to him.
It struck me afterwards that it was a vet who helped me and I was a vet helping this guy, not the hospital staff and that all we (vets) can depend on is each other, so next time you see a brother vet and he is down say high to him, it could mean allot to him even the difference between life and death.
Back to the brother who helped me, we have a bond stronger than any I have had in a long time. I will never forget him and he will never forget me. And when he graduates from HIOT I will be there with a gift for him.
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