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A VA Compensation and Pension Examiners Perspective
Tbird posted an article in Veterans Disability Claims,
A VA Compensation and Pension Examiners Perspective
This person is going to judge you. It’s their job, and that is why you are there. To be adjudicated fairly. How would you like to be remembered? A scuzzy stereotypical veteran? Or a troubled one who is doing the best they can?
Do not talk about alcohol or drug-related issues. You are not there to be assessed for those problems. You are there to be evaluated for your psychiatric functioning as today relates to your service history. If the examiner asks about alcohol or drugs, politely remind them that you are not there for those issues if you’ve ever had them, but for how impaired you are in your daily functioning. It’s best to avoid even talking about them. Got a VA horror story? I can tell you a worse one. Don’t waste your time with how badly you believe you’ve been mistreated. The examiner only has a short time to figure out how impaired you are, and they need the facts, concise sentences, and not rambling rants that lead nowhere.-
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VA Math, Confusing, Right? Calculate Your Final Rating Percentage!
Tbird posted a blog entry in Tbirds Blog,
10 + 50 = 50 and other VA math mysteries explained.
VA Math It’s Not Your Mother’s Arithmetic
“VA Math” is the way that the VA computes combined impairment ratings for multiple conditions in a Veteran’s compensation benefits claim – and it requires that you unlearn real math. When a Veteran has multiple medical conditions that are service-connected and the Veterans Affairs rates each at a different percentage, it would seem that they should just add up your percentages to get to a total body impairment rating.-
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VA will propose adding rare cancers to the presumed service-connected list as related to military environmental exposure
Buck52 posted a question in VA Disability Compensation Benefits Claims Research Forum,
https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5768-
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Post in I need some help, please
Tbird posted an answer to a question,
If you are looking for help taking care of him something like a home health aide that comes in during the week and helps with what he needs help with. For this I would contact your local VA hospital and ask to speak to the Social Worker, explain your situation, ask for help and how to proceed.
If you are looking for additional compensation in the form of Special Monthly Compensation check out this video from CCK Law I think it will give you a good idea what it is and how to go about applying for it.
For example there is a Special Monthly Compensation Rate for TBI try reading this article from The Veterans Law Blog on SMC T It is a subscription site but it allows you to view 3 articles for free a month.
Special Monthly Compensation (SMC)
I hope this helps.
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Post in I am now 100% P&T, what do I need to know to apply for Social Security Disability?
Tbird posted an answer to a question,
You can now apply on line Read the below PDF or go here to Apply and read more https://secure.ssa.gov/iClaim/Ent002View.action
Here is a checklist for what you will need
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63Charlie
In 2007, I went to the VA because I was having back pain.
A thoracic MRI was ordered.
Two different VA doctors said they reviewed my MRI and that it was normal.
Kept working in construction and kept complaining to the VA about back pain.
They sent me to another VA doctor that said I had a small fatty cell lipoma in my right scapular area.of my back.
I asked him if this was causing the pain and he said that they are usually painless.
I was hurting all of the time and called them(VA) and said I'm tired of the back pain and I want the thing cut out.
I was getting nowhere with them so I started taking OTC meds for chronic pain,
Three years roll by and I'm still valiantly trying to keep up doing my construction job in agony.
Stepped in a pot hole on a job site, twisted my kneed badly, and ripped my right meniscus on my knee and had a MCL sprain.
Knee never healed back right so I was unable to return to my former job involving heavy manual labor..
I decided I needed to file for SSDI.
Gathered my VA records and records from private docs for SSDI.
Got a copy of my MRI from 2007 on my back and the radiologist reported multiple herniated discs abutting my spinal cord in my thoracic spine.
All of my suffering and chronic pain complaints and not one VA doctor read my radiology report.
This is a clear case of medical negligence.
My spine is a total wreck now, Got a consult in two weeks with an ortho spine surgeon.
I currently think I have about nine herniated discs, and some are causing marked spinal cord compression, and many neurological abnormalities, scoliosis, loss of cervical lordosis from all the muscle spasms, numbness in my extremities, and more.
Thanks to VA doctors I kept doing heavy lifting at work. believing their diagnosis until it was too late for my spine.
This line of work accelerated the progression of my IVDS.
It's too late.
I'm screwed for the rest of my pain-ridden life.
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Would this surgeon be willing to prepare an IMO/IME for you, following the IMO criteria here at hadit? If not you could consider contacting Dr. Craig Bash Bethesda, whose contact number (and many
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They count on us to become too disabled and too frustrated to deal with them. The very system you men and women created due to your service , insuring them nice pay checks , has become a National
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63Charlie, I feel your pain, literally. I fell down a flight of stairs during boot camp, 23.5 years ago. The VA's own radiology lab found degenerative disc disease at several locations in 1997.
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