Vso

[sbrewer]

What information does your vso have? My husband has emailed his guy several times about getting a copy of the blue sheet, and he does not reply. He emailed something else the other day, and he replyed. Seems like he just reponds to whatever he wants to. We are trying to find out what code he is rated for. Is there anything else that this person has that we may need a copy of?

thanks,

sbrewer

[Guest jangrin]

I"m confused,

Please, if someone could explain to me the logic behind this maybe I would be able to understand but right now I am struggling.

When my husband filed his initial claim he was sent by the VA to the County Service Office. We met with a really nice lady who evidently filled out the paperwork for my husbands initial claim for benefits. On the very same day she had my husband sign a POA with the American Legion. She stated that they seemed to do the best job.

Time passes, we find Hadit.com, and the site explained and taught us so much about filing a claim. So now we have an SO, a POA that we have never met or talked to, and Hadit. So we go along and start gathering infomation, getting records, copying records, getting IMO, Nexus statements the whole thing "because we have been paying attention to Hadit who is helping us. No one else has even talked to us since my husband filed his claim.

So now we send in all our infomation and sign the VCAA letters to rate the claim (stating no more evidence).

We get yelled at by the SO for not giving her the info first. So I give her copies and she sends them to the AL. So now we have to move (won't go into it now) but we move to a new state.

We now have an TVC (texas Veterans Commission SO) who changes our POA from the AL to the TVC. He has the file transfered to the WACO office. He never sees the file. Quite honestly I like the guy, he seems like a nice guy. But he really doesn't want to know about specifics of the claim. I ask him if he wants copies of the records or the claim he tells us he has no room for those things and for us to keep the records ourselves.

I AM CONFUSED, please explain what is happening because I really don't understand what these people are doing. THey don't talk to us. They don't contact us. They don't want copies of stuff. What exactly is their function???? Anyone please. Thank you.

Jangrin

Edited December 21, 2006 by jangrin

[Cavman]

The one I dealt with wrote up the claim (the head guy) and passed it off to one of his staff. They never contacted me. I think most keep their offices open by showing they have many claims in house, but do very little work on them. When I got rated mine didn`t even know who I was when I called him to ask if he knew I was rated that day. I found out by calling the 800 number. He said let me call you back after I go check. Calls me back (the only time) and says....by golly, your right. I laughed and said thanks, see ya. I`m the SO now with Hadit on my side.

Cavman

[marinejay]

Alot of these SO's are a waste of time, sometimes its better for you to just do all the work ourselves. I will warn you guys on this and i have many that will agree with me. If you are not knowledgable on the va laws and especially on your claim. The so's will tell you a bunch of b.S to keep you happy. When you are knowledgable you can see and smell that crap that comes out of their mouths. The only thing i will say is be careful with the new vso's cause they will tell you wrong stuff and screw your claim up.

marinejay

[dougbo1943]

I use the TVC in Dallas. They do not want a copy of the items I send the RO by their office. Should I not be worried about this? I do go over each thing send in with them.

Gunny

[rdawg]

You should be worried. They should want a copy of everything you send. #1 check for errors or anything that might hurt your claim. #2 For record keeping purposes for when the VA denies your claim the TVC can verify they have everything you sent.