ptsd Service Officer Called...wow!

[Cavman]

I sent many emails over the past few months and have never got an email, call or anything back. Today the SO evidently received my letter terminating his POA and representation and guess what........My wife informed me when I got home from my PTSD treatment that my SO called and said he is doing all he can on my appeal and it is urgent I call him back. Wow, I wonder what he wants?! I`ll never know.

Cavman

[Cavman]

Anybody have a DAV rep and correspond to them via email. I have asked my DAV rep repeatidly for his email address and he has never given it to me, same guy who said (listen to attachment). I think he doesnt want any record of our conversations that why there is no email correspondence.............

Learn from Hadit and work your own claim. Why do you need him or her?

Cavman

[Guest jangrin]

I would really like to be a service officer (unpaid) for some service organization just for something to do and for a place to hang out. The thing is I am embarassed by the organizations in my driving area. VVA is 25 miles away and the AL, DAV, and VFW all have their offices at the VARO. I don't want to go over there since I am IU and it is also 25 miles away. As an unpaid volunteer I would probably be doing the unskilled labor for the lazy VSO's. I have been looking for some volunteer activity to do and have been treated like a dog so far. I can't do the physical stuff. My brain and experience is all I have to offer.

John999,

I got to thinking about this again.

You are a SO, right here. You are helping more people as an internet SO on Hadit than you would ever be able to help in an office.

Jangrin

[betrayed]

Learn from Hadit and work your own claim. Why do you need him or her?

Cavman

I dont need him, as per his own voice he is not gonna advise or suggest.............I plan to contact someone high up in the DAV and fire the guy and send the mp3 file with it.

[Testvet]

It does no good to notify anyone higher up, just send in a notice to the VARO like you do for evidence a hand written letter works I live close so I walk it in hand it to the service desk and get a date stamped copy, I have revoked POA for the AL, and the DAV this way, I loved it when I took the one in for the DAV revocation the man in the service office goes why are you firing the DAV, he just got you 100% P&T?

Excuse me, they fired my SO, this guy happened to be sitting in the seat when I finally got Senator Craig to get on them for lying about the experiments at Edgewood, and they took the easy way out and rated me 100% for PTSD and then quickly claimed I said they could drop all the other issues on appeal, not so fast I said the heart problems and the PTSD, so we are still fighting.

But the reason the new guy at DAV had to go, is the heart issue has been on appeal since Dec 2002, and he wanted me to start over asking for a rating for hypertension in May 2006, why? I would lose the back pay to 2002, the appeal is still open and I have never missed my filing dates, I refuse to quit until they either rate the heart problems as secondary to PTSD or as a issue relevant to the toxic exposures at Edgewood.

Most SO are overworked, and screw up more claims because something got misplaced or they never tell you all your options, I was told I would never get a PTSD award, I was told I would never get rated a 100% P&T, BS just keep appealing and find your own records because most of the sorry SO's and the VARO's won't do it.

[Berta]

John-I did some volunteer work for the same vet rep who screwed up my claims-

I dont regret what I did- but I think one of those other claims was screwed up big time -after I spent a lot of time on it.It was a beauty- he did not see what I saw in it-could have went from 10% to 100% with SMC-

I help my vet orgs if they send me anything -(VCV, ltd. etc) I have to refer local vets to hadit and to other vet reps because I have no accreditation with VA, just the NVLSP cert-

accreditation would take too much of my time -as it is -I am overhelmed-

You do SO MUCH here -your advise is always excellent-

I hope you recognise your tremendous value here at hadit-

But I understand how you feel- if I am not overwhelmed-I get ansy-gotta keep doing-

How far is your VAMC-I have done many types of volunteer work at our local VAMC-

boat trip with vets, Christmas stuff to do for hospital vets, (AL usually is involved in that too),decorating for Chapel at Christmas

barbeques for vets, claims help at the base, meet ups with vet claims passing through- the VAMC is good place-easy to find on the map- to meet for claims issues, for vets passing through this area-

I am only 20-25 miles from our VAMC with only one red light-so that helps too if you are close

and every VAMC has a Volunteer Service office and are usually glad to get help-

One of my vets drives the DAV van and another one took over the Chapel service clean up as I couldnt do that anymore-

Our VAMC needed people to help vets use the PCs they have for veteran's to access the net-

maybe this was part of the DOM program-

I would have loved to help but just could not find the time-

If a vet helps another vet understand how to use a PC and get on the net- to get help for their claims-

here as well as the many sites out there- to me this is a WOnderful way to help a vet.

Plenty don't even have computers.

Every library has public PCs for them to use-

Our local library here in the boonies is in a converted garage-they have about 6-7 PCs that the public uses.

Then again John- you sure do enough here----

You know- some of these vet reps and NSOs get $45-50 thousand a year to start-

But there is more knowledge right here than what they seem to have.

Maybe that is why my rep screwed me-------I always forget------I had to pick a field I was interested in and interview someone working in it- for a college course-3 years ago-

AMU knows I am retired but I still had to do this so I interviewed my former rep-the one who buggered my claim for 3 years-

he knew I was retired too but maybe he thought I wanted his job.

At first he even tried to get me to apply for a vet rep job there-and said I taught him a lot- but

then he changed-

I would never want to work there-