Brown packet from VA Washington DC

[Mooshi]

So I finally received my Brown packet from VA Washington DC with an order dated April 11, 2016. Looks like I am due some back pay. I called VA and now they tell me this paperwork has to go back to the Regional Office which mine is Houston and they have no idea of what my retro pay amount or time frame will be. Am I looking at another few years to get paid? Any advice?

[FormerMember]

Most recently, I punched through a Joint Motion for Remand back from the CAVC. The BVA revamped their decision to grant back to 94. That was November 18, 2013. They sent it out to the AMC who made the decision almost immediately (December 15th, 2013) Pay day was Feb. 12, 2014. That was probably "expeditiously handled" as a remand. In most cases, it will return to the Agency of Original Jurisdiction (AOJ) known as your Regional Office.There it will sit for about two-five months until it is reinspected and gets three concurring signatures, the proper Diagnostic Code and the brand new (appealable) low ball  0-10% rating. Virtually all the guys I deal with now are hard core Vietnam Veterans with Agent Orange issues- with Parkinson's being the most frequent one. Their settlements are usually longstanding if they applied wisely for DM2 in 94. It became a retroactive presumptive in 2001. Throw in a Fenderson staged rating spread out over twenty two years with plenty of STRs to document it and they throw up their hands and give you whatever your present rating is clear back to the earliest date it is ascertainable you became entitled to it. Backlogs are a bitch. Milk them for all you can.