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[Tbird]

glad you got your technical issue resolved. the forum doesn't work that way if you keep getting dropped it's a device problem or a connection problem most likely.

[Victor Ray]

On 6/7/2016 at 3:49 PM, Buck52 said:

Yes the DRO is authorized to make a decision on your claim at a RO DRO Hearing  and can expedite the claim ...then all you do is wait for the mail to run and get your packet.

 DRO is the last chance to have someone decide your claim, YOU CAN SIT DOWN WITH THEM GIVE THE NEW EVIDENCE AND TALK MAN TO MAN WITH THEM & explain why you feel you should be awarded your claim  and you can also state some of the CFR's AS TO WHAT YOUR CLAIM SHOULD BE RATED AT DEPENDS ON YOUR SYMPTOMS AND HOW BAD THEY ARE (Found here on Hadit)...  if denied  then you NOD & Your headed to the BVA  and remands if the BVA can't decide   they bicker back and forth from the RO to the BVA  and usually when this happens your left waiting and wondering  and it could be years before someone finally decides your claim usually  VLJ  ( VETERANS LAW JUDGE.)

So needless to say its better to do all you can at the RO Level to make a decision on your claim.

With that said  even a DRO will want to play musical chairs with you (Depends on the DRO)  he/she may ask you to drop a claim to get another one...DON'T DO IT  if you have a lelgit claim keep it, WORK IT if denied, then NOD the decision and  get yourself more New & Material Evidence and submit it.

Appeals are some times good for the Veteran at the RO Level  then if your case goes to the BVA...Then is when its waiting time.

I recommend to veteran when this happens go out and get you an IMO/IME from a qualified Dr/SPECIALIST and render his/her opien.  as back up to add to your NOD.

Evidence wins the Claim Always...some don't read it (denied) but you need to make damn sure they do.

Hadit has tons of research about VA Information , if you can't find it just ask someone Ms berta or MsT bird  than can let you know how to get it.

Stay on top of your claim and you will find it to help you a lot better than  a VSO could .

jmo

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

Thanks again Buck.

I didn't want a DRO if it could be handled locally, but the DAV here don't have time to explain anything, or won't and ST. Louis won't either. They want you to sign up and then they don't even know you, or anything about your claim.

Then when you get lied to several times, you just want someone with some authority to step in and take over so you don't have to battle every phone conversation along the way.

Does the VA not have a liaison? Someone that can offer advice as to what you should do, before you even go to a VSO? Probably not.

Well, I just got a hold of St. Louis, but have to call back this afternoon. I am going to ask if there is another step before the DRO, because this shouldn't have to go that far to be made right.

I was boots on ground in Vietnam, became diseased in the line of duty, was hospitalized 3 weeks in Vietnam, was ordered to be discharged and med evaced to CONUS, issued a P3 permanent Profile for defects in physical capacity and stamina, also made non deployable anywhere chloroquine must be taken, retained on duty, continued to deteriorate with other diseases developing, acquired several of the presumptive conditions while on active duty, discharged and in a "coma". Continued illnesses with periods of almost normalcy but always having one problem or another with chloracne, migraines, bleeding, eye aches, hives, rash, extremely itchy skin causing insomnia, swallowing issues, lung issues, gastro issues, heart issues, everything. There was always something wrong since I was 19 years old and in Vietnam.

I just don't get the mindset of the VA, accept to load their own pockets while screwing us that have legit claims. I mean, they are the ones that documented it, but we have to prove that they were right? Not wrong but right.

I just hoped to be alive when this is settled, but it taking 45 years to finally get just "some" treatment records almost guarantees death before "Honor" and vindication.

Thanks for the great advice Buck,

Victor

[Victor Ray]

On 6/7/2016 at 3:49 PM, Buck52 said:

Yes the DRO is authorized to make a decision on your claim at a RO DRO Hearing  and can expedite the claim ...then all you do is wait for the mail to run and get your packet.

 DRO is the last chance to have someone decide your claim, YOU CAN SIT DOWN WITH THEM GIVE THE NEW EVIDENCE AND TALK MAN TO MAN WITH THEM & explain why you feel you should be awarded your claim  and you can also state some of the CFR's AS TO WHAT YOUR CLAIM SHOULD BE RATED AT DEPENDS ON YOUR SYMPTOMS AND HOW BAD THEY ARE (Found here on Hadit)...  if denied  then you NOD & Your headed to the BVA  and remands if the BVA can't decide   they bicker back and forth from the RO to the BVA  and usually when this happens your left waiting and wondering  and it could be years before someone finally decides your claim usually  VLJ  ( VETERANS LAW JUDGE.)

So needless to say its better to do all you can at the RO Level to make a decision on your claim.

With that said  even a DRO will want to play musical chairs with you (Depends on the DRO)  he/she may ask you to drop a claim to get another one...DON'T DO IT  if you have a lelgit claim keep it, WORK IT if denied, then NOD the decision and  get yourself more New & Material Evidence and submit it.

Appeals are some times good for the Veteran at the RO Level  then if your case goes to the BVA...Then is when its waiting time.

I recommend to veteran when this happens go out and get you an IMO/IME from a qualified Dr/SPECIALIST and render his/her opien.  as back up to add to your NOD.

Evidence wins the Claim Always...some don't read it (denied) but you need to make damn sure they do.

Hadit has tons of research about VA Information , if you can't find it just ask someone Ms berta or MsT bird  than can let you know how to get it.

Stay on top of your claim and you will find it to help you a lot better than  a VSO could .

jmo

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

Thanks again Buck.

I didn't want a DRO if it could be handled locally, but the DAV here don't have time to explain anything, or won't and ST. Louis won't either. They want you to sign up and then they don't even know you, or anything about your claim.

Then when you get lied to several times, you just want someone with some authority to step in and take over so you don't have to battle every phone conversation along the way.

Does the VA not have a liaison? Someone that can offer advice as to what you should do, before you even go to a VSO? Probably not.

Well, I just got a hold of St. Louis, but have to call back this afternoon. I am going to ask if there is another step before the DRO, because this shouldn't have to go that far to be made right.

I was boots on ground in Vietnam, became diseased in the line of duty, was hospitalized 3 weeks in Vietnam, was ordered to be discharged and med evaced to CONUS, issued a P3 permanent Profile for defects in physical capacity and stamina, also made non deployable anywhere chloroquine must be taken, retained on duty, continued to deteriorate with other diseases developing, acquired several of the presumptive conditions while on active duty, discharged and in a "coma". Continued illnesses with periods of almost normalcy but always having one problem or another with chloracne, migraines, bleeding, eye aches, hives, rash, extremely itchy skin causing insomnia, swallowing issues, lung issues, gastro issues, heart issues, everything. There was always something wrong since I was 19 years old and in Vietnam.

I just don't get the mindset of the VA, accept to load their own pockets while screwing us that have legit claims. I mean, they are the ones that documented it, but we have to prove that they were right? Not wrong but right.

I just hoped to be alive when this is settled, but it taking 45 years to finally get just "some" treatment records almost guarantees death before "Honor" and vindication.

Thanks for the great advice Buck,

Victor

[OldJoe]

Any "representative" a vet finds can range from great to down right, er, well, cannot say it in polite company.

Some are good for initial claims, some are good at fight claims, some are good at taking up precious oxygen or keeping a chair warm.

One thing that I am finding out out as I learn about the process is that the individual you get isn't so much a representative but in actuality would more accurately as a veteran's affirmative action catalyst.  Emphasis on catalyst.

A catalyst doesn't do anything but help precipitate an event.

Granted some catalysts work better than others and will cause secondary reactions to occur (those great mythical VSOs we keep hearing about but are never able to find).

If you what a true representative you need a lawyer which of course costs $$ which many vets don't have.

Even though I know there are great VSOs, DAV, Legion, VFW service officers out there somewhere I swear it seems more like an Elvis Presley sighting.  "The King has left the building..."

[GLW]

If you have a valid claim, a VA accredited lawyer does not cost you any up front money. He only get's paid from your back pay. Should be 20%, may go as high as 30%.

[Victor Ray]

Well Buck, over three months have passed, and I am still sitting in the NWQ, but my claim is pushed back until April of next year, 2017.  I have sent in any new evidence, so there is nothing they haven't seen now. They did find a 13 x 5mm hypodensity and probably had another TIA. My BPwas 227/110 for hours before they could get it down. 

They moved my completion date from Aug 15 to Aug 30. Then on the 29th they made a decision so for a day I was "pending decision approval" for one day. That next day it was pushed back to Dec 12 to Match 8 2017. Today, Sep 14,  they pushed it back to Dec 24 2016 to April 4 2017. I don't have the luxury of waiting years. I may only have months as it is, so they are waiting me out. April of Ned's year? That will be a year in the NWQ. How is this not corruption?

I have proof of URI's after Vietnam, prostate pain and sensitivity, lung spots and now opacities, the brain thing, malignant and benign cancers, hypertension, degenerative bone and disk disease, CAD, total carotid artery occlusion, stroke, 24 intentional tumors that are not familial (did the testing), blood disease with coagulation problems, and bleeding issues, a fatty liver, and this stuff is documented as beginning in Vietnam, in the "LD", 28 days in the hospital for an unknown cause of a skin disease. I was issued a permanent profile for these conditions, still have them, proof of service in Vietnam, but the VA denies me still. I was sent "HOME AWAITING ORDERS", and was to be medically retired because of time in the service, but the VA screwed me over, and continue to, to this day. I don't have time for a law suite or BVA and they know it.

the VA has shown its filthy disgusting ways, and am going to let me die before a resolution, just like it likes to do, and DAV approves it's actions, and even helps in the death of these vets. Dirty DAV.