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TDIU- Food for thought

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 Alex I am totally surprised with you and some what shocked.

The Veteran don't call it it'' totally disabled''  the VA Does that  &'' don't put a smiley face on it & don't add the painfully I can't work??????? Where the Hell you coming from anyway?

Sure the small injury's/disease our small % of combined ratings like you mention should not be factor in with combined ratings  as you mention ,other than Hearing Problems and Tinnitus   that should be factor in as a 10% rating  but it takes a lot of those 10%ratings to muster up the 100%  but they Add up and should in my opinion, if a Veteran can't work b/c of of his claimed S.C. Conditions  then this is why he files a claim  to help him at home to pay the bills buy the food pay Dr Bills for his family more important feed his family and give them a roof over there heads.

Its good you help out veterans with more serious health problems  but the way I think it should not matter what a Veteran disability is  if he is service connected for an ingrown toe-nail flat feet or any other condition that was cause by prior military service what difference does it make what his condition is??

 and yes I agree No VA VSO or VA Rep should file fraudulent claims  that's a no brainier .

but VSO should file what the Veteran can prove medically and was  cause by an in service event  no matter what the condition is , if its proven by medical records and it happen in service and occur years later and disables this veteran   I say file a claim for him  when a Veteran ask for help.

you mention this

''I lose my credibility at the RO with the  DROs. And by law as an officer of the Court, I'm forbidden to file fraudulent claims.

Of course your 100%correct on that.''

If you don't agree with that above then I' for one will never use you as my VA Rep  if all you want is the  A.O. Conditions /heart conditions and Hep C or Limbs missing  or the more serious disabling conditions/diseases  then more power to you sir.

Besides if  I ask you for help and you didn't believe me when I tell you about my conditions /injury's disease that occurred in military and they are not as serious as you represent  I would not want to use you for my Rep  and I know there's thousands of other veterans feel the same.

Your  kinda of  Arrogant about being a VA  Rep and you should not worry about a Veteran that ask you for your help if he don't have a serious condition  the kind that you only Handel/take  because of what the RO might think about you?

if you think a Veteran is lying to you  then make it simple and let him know he is a liar or simply let him know your just to busy with other serious disabled veterans.

You may know the CFR very well and that's a good thing  but I don't think you understand the consequence of your last post posting  using this kind of hate for your fellow Veteran.  ( hate) I mean  You choosing to help only serious disabled Vets with more serious condition  to me it should not matter one way or the other what a Veteran is claiming   its pretty low to accuse a Veteran of being fraudulent  just based off what condition he is claiming   and in my opinion if you keep a frame of mind like that you won't last as Credible  VA Rep.

I always thought the TDIU Program was a good thing for veterans  b/c its so hard to reach the 100% Scheduler   & when they don't rate the veteran correctly  its not the vets fault when  the VA inferred the IU TO HIM WITH A COMBINED RATING OF 60& 70&OR 90% it actually is a good thing to happen for the Veteran when he can't work b/c of his S.C. Disability's  rather or not you like it. 

take this post ever how you want to Sir

jmo

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The VA granted me P&T almost 16 years ago and I am TDIU.  I think I should have gotten 100% but the VA math makes impossible.  I am 70%,60%, 20% and four 10% ratings. I get housebound.  I should be 100% but when I got P&T as being TDIU I did not think it necessary to continue to appeal endlessly for scheduler  100%.   If you look at actual requirements for 100% mental nobody here qualifies for that since those who truly qualify for VA 100% are basket cases.   I am not a basket case but I can't work especially since I am almost 68 years old.  If VA takes away TDIU then it will destroy any long term plans I had for my wife and for myself.   My budget can't really take a 1500-2000 dollar cut.  If the VA says I am P&T is that just for fun?

 

 

                                       John

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Sorry if you think I'm down on Vets, Buck. I don't know where you get that. I offer my help to any that ask-most all of the time for free. I always have and always will. I even gave you a bit of advice for free a while back. I didn't judge you or talk down to you.

I do radio shows to help Vets here with Jerrel and John. Have you ever heard me talk down to or demean a Vet?  I take donations folks send and buy food and pay power bills-sometimes a whole month's rent. I don't ask for it back either.  If someone is dying of Hep C and asks me to rep him so his wife won't starve, you're telling me to say screw off- I have to help Johnny Vet with a hangnail because he got here first? If and when folks here start telling me who I can or should rep, and in what order, you won't have to worry about me ever being your rep. If I accepted no more today, I have a lifetime of claims waiting to do. These are claims for Vets I already helped who are now personal friends. I help the sickest ones first before they die. I guess I don't expect you understand that. I have to triage my Vets. Only the sickest get on my Dustoff.

I'm sorry you are having trouble understanding what I wrote and mean. Ask a friend to read it to you. It's fairly obvious you do not understand what I am saying. I said nothing mean-spirited. I insulted no Vet.  Yes, some Vets aren't honest. That's a big problem if I take them on as clients.  I've had four that lied to me about their claims. I got 100% for one. Then he told me he was a junkie and he'd smoked me. He seemed to be pretty proud of himself. I did not turn him in because he's a Vet and it happened before I got my license. If it happened tomorrow, I could not let it go. The other three lied about the degree of their injuries and one tried to hire me when he already had an attorney. I assume all who come to me are truthful. If I catch them in a lie, it's very, very difficult to ask to be removed from the claim. My only defense is to make sure I'm not getting hornswoggled. President Reagan said it best-Trust...but verify.  You don't seem to understand how this works. I don't file claims. I file NODS and VA9s. I'm not allowed to help until after you lose. I fight for you and I win. If any of you think for a moment a NSO is smarter, better and has more legal training, then fly at it.  

Please understand TDIU was once a good idea  but the Courts have opened it up and it's causing the system to crash. Wouldn't it be easier to just declare a diagnostic code for 100% based on multiple disabilities and call it good? Why keep a system like TDIU where some Vets will exploit it to win the top rating? If you're totally disabled, you're toast. Why the big VA dog and pony show and jumping through hoops to get the IU 100%? 

We Vietnam Vets are now the oldest except for a few holdouts from Korea and WW2. Our generation is the one most at risk and the one who got the short straw when we got back. Those are who I owe my services to because they have the least time on this earth to get it done. If that pisses you off, I apologize. I'm one guy, not a office full of agents. I stand behind my statement that I will never ever knowingly file a fraudulent claim. If I so much as smell a rat, I walk away. 

And you, sir,  may also take this post however you want to. 

 

 

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 ''If someone is dying of Hep C and asks me to rep him so his wife won't starve, you're telling me to say screw off- I have to help Johnny Vet with a hangnail because he got here first? ''

I never said to you not to help or screw off?

Maybe your right maybe I don't understand you but to say a veteran is lying without checking him out first just b/c he may request IU  and does not have a  A.O. Condition  like heart condition or more serious disability  like Hep C is not a good way to judge a veteran in my book.

 just choosing veterans by their condition and that condition being more serious than say a vet with crippling arthritics or some other type condition that would cause him not to be able to work or  do the job he was trained to do

 like'' John999'' mention if its a 100% mental case  then the veteran usually is a basket case  &can't work but he don't need to be 100% either if he can't work but I am referring to other disease/or injury that is de- mobilizing to veterans that don't have heart problems or Hep C...ect,,ect,

They are 100''s of disease /Injury's that can come up years later  including the ones you mention.

I just think its unfair to the veteran to not help him if he request IU b/c he has a hard time working. How can we tell he is hurting or feel his pain ? we can't  its an assumption and were certainly not medical Dr's

I agree you have been a great contributor here on hadit & the radio shows with John and Jerrel  and your information is priceless and yes you have help me  and you have help a lot of other veterans as well and I'm sure they are appreciative for your help, I certainly was  and I thank you,  but to see your post above  I have my doubts about you now.

This is all I am going to say about this.

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I agree with Alex.  I have not seen anything that Alex posted any thing less than "pro Vet".  

However, I appreciate Buck for sticking up for any Vet.    Like Alex, I dont appreciate the VETS who lie to get benefits.  And it makes sense to me, given limited resources, to help the sickest Vets first.  

My son's wife is an MD in the military.  She see's patients in the order of medical necessity.  A heart attack patient, who just comes into the ER, will be seen before someone who has been waiting for an hour to see the doctor about his runny nose.  

We may not like it that the most severly injured get to cut in line ahead of us, but I find comfort in knowing if I come in with a heart attack, I will be seen right away, also.  She does this regardless of the "rank" of the person waiting.  Some Very high ups have gotten mad that a private with a severe urgent medical emergency goes ahead of them.  She lets em get mad, and sees them in the order of medical necessity and does not consider their rank.  I agree with her.  A private with severe bleeding goes ahead of a general with hay fever every time, no matter how mad the general gets.  The General needs to get over his anger problems, and accept this reality.  

We Vets do also.  There is a provision at BVA for an advance on the docket for Vets who are in desperate need, such as a homeless Vet or someone over 80.  Unfortunately, the backlog is so long its abused.  THIS time, I did not request an advance on the docket.  

In 2005, when I was losing my home, I did not know what an "advance on the docket" meant.  VA knew I was losing my home, as I told my doctor, and they did nothing.  Fortunately, for me, I was able to get emergency assisted housing, for a fraction of my income.  I think my rent was $50 per month, which included utilitites.  At that time, my only income was 40 percent from VA, which was about 454 per month.  

They raised it to 900 and something per month when I got pension.  If I got the pension earlier, I could have scraped by and kept my home as the house payment was about 400.  I got my VA benefits too little to late, and lost my home.  VAro  had earlier considered my 0 percent for hearing loss as a "complete grant of benefit sought" AWARDED BY bva.  VARO interprets "complete" to mean 0 percent.  

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broncovet,

I mention I was not going to say anymore  but to clarify things for you & I am sorry to hear about your mis-fortune, I am sure this has  happen to many veterans including myself but we over came our burdens..and with me it was help from the VA  Has bad as I hate to admit that but that's the truth.

We fight for our benefits and were old time Vietnam Vets. We did learn some things while in the military &  we own uncle sam for that ...as uncle sam owns us our benefits.

This topic is suppose to be about the IU Cuts'' food for thought type conversation''

but some how it is about adjudication of the claims process after a denial & the severity of the disability! and veterans being called liars or for them to ask them self ''are you truly totally disabled b/c you can't work''.?

I am not referring to veterans being seen at clinics for the severity of there health problem and who is seen first or who ''should'' be seen first   of course  the more severe veteran should be seen first  I totally agree.

 but this is about Adjudication of claims...After they are consider to be disabled.

I just think it should not matter what a veterans disability claim is,  if its a more serious health problem and he has been seen by medical professional sure adjuicate his claim first &hope for an expedite,  but Alex mention he only sees veteran with more serious health problems and not take the other veterans with not so serious health problems. eh!

   These other veterans with not so serious health problems are veterans too and should not be ridiculed  because there disability is not as bad as some of the other more serious condition veterans. or called a liar...a disability that keeps a veteran from working is a serious disability in my opinion and should have a fair adjudication with his claim.  (I disagree with him)calling a veteran a liar just b/c his disability is not as severe as other veterans.

He seems to think if a veteran don't have a Heart Condition or A.O. Related Hep C  or bed ridden  then they are lying if they have some other type disease or injury that occurred in the military and therefor their lying and not disabled as they claim. (IS THIS A PREDETERMINATION ON HIS PART? AND FOR WHAT REASONS?

However he is the certified claims Rep Here and has his choice of the veterans he helps..I am just saying not all veterans are liars & give them the benefit of doubt. We all should trust a veteran  until we learn that Veteran is only being fraudulent.  and sure that changes things.

IMO that is for  Dr's & Specialist to decide  not the Claims Adjudicator And when a veteran proves his/her disability by medical reports specialist and in service records and all the correct records it takes  and is approved...then why call that veteran a liar doubt him or not help him?

if you believe he is lying and not as disabled as he claims  that is not for us to decide  its the  Dr's & VA 's and the people they employ.or help from the private sector from Medical trained professionals.

 

They maybe a low percentage of Veterans who claim things they maybe should not and get compensation fraudulently   Yes I agree  but that's a low percentage of veterans and probably on drugs real bad  ect,,ect,,Sure  that's unfortunate 

Some veterans are totally disabled with a 100% scheduler P&T rating and walk a straight line and look healthy as ever...but I would never call them a liar, never judge a book by its cover  that will get you in a whole lot of trouble my friend.

 

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