Pending Decision Approval... Again

[ArmySgt2014]

First an foremost, thank you for your time. I know there are a lot of Vets that are in the same boat and are far more worse for wear than me. Below is the time line-

NOV-17 - Filed

DEC-17-APR-18- Gather Evidence/CP Exam

MAY-18- Preparation for Decision

MAY-18- Pending decision approval

June-18 Preparation for Decision

June-18 Gathering Evidence (C&P scheduled for Physician Review)

July-18 Gathering Evidence

August-18 Preparation for Decision

August- Now Pending Decision Approval

 

Some I'm rated at 20% currently and have filed claims for other things that I have been treated for by the VA since 2014 (just never claimed until now). Every time I call the VA, not a single person can repeat the same answer. I could call 10 time tomorrow, and get 10 different responses. Which, is fine with me. If I don't heckle them, who will. My only issues is what would be the reason for kicking it back so many time. I get there may be discrepancies but c'mon. Idk, maybe it will all pan out eventually. 

 

The other thing that confused me was, when I asked to reinstate my 20% benefit after coming off of my T-10 orders, Peggy told me to file a claim for Resumption of Compensation. Well, that was started in Jan-18 and Closed in June-18. When I called an asked because nothing came of it, Peggy told me that they just rolled that one over to my Compensation claim I currently had. #**Y@ SERIOUSLY?  My VSO is worthless. I have done everything thus far on my own. I just wanted to know if there was someone that had similar issues and how long it took. 

V/R 

ArmySgt

[ParadigmGuy]

2 hours ago, GeekySquid said:

 

misread the thread and thought you were addressing me ParadigmGuy. I have a similar situation in another thread. my bad.

 

 

No problem. I've seen claims go back and forth a bunch from Pending Decison Approval to Gathering of Evidence,  but haven't read about a lot moving backwards from Pending Notification. My thought was that it may show it going back a step if a second signature qas required.

[Vync]

Welcome to Hadit!

It does look like your claim is working its way though the system, albeit slowly. Pending decision approval is promising, but statuses bounce around pretty frequently at the VA. It is definitely frustrating. Been there and done that a lot. I even had one claim with a status that didn't change until a couple of weeks after I received my rating decision in the mail.

Certain types of claims are now mostly automated. A good example would be submitting a dependency claim via ebenefits. I learned if you filed dependency by mail, it could take months. However, itt took a couple of weeks to get my dependency claim resolved.

If your VSO has an office at the VARO, it might be worth it to contact that location. In my experience, they seem to have access to more information than satellite VSO locations. Just keep in mind that they might have to have someone call you back in a few days.

 

[ArmySgt2014]

VARO?

To be honest, I listed my VSO only because of their name and influence, TVC (Texas), other than that, I don't know what they are capable of that I'm not? You know. I can call the VA, submit FOIA's, seek help from Congress, etc.. What is their mission? What is their resources? What is their authority? Idk. 

I don't know what a VARO is, could you explain? I'm interested in learning, as I have troops that I educate on my experiences with the VA, both on the Education side and CP side. 

I get that I'm just a number, but coming off of active duty with no job and having a wife and kids, it's been stressful the entire time. I'm just trying to get what I earned to help support me during these difficult times. 

[broncovet]

Yes, most of us have had similar issues.  The VA has their favorite things, in this order:  

Delay, deny, lowball, hornswaggle your effective dates.  

Did you tell your VA you have no job and no income????

Consider applying for NSC Pension.  Its a little over 1000 a month (depending upon your number of dependents) and its sort of easy to get IF:

1.  You served "in wartime".

2.  You have very little money and resources.  Anything you earn will be deducted from your pension.  

     Tell the VA you are about to become homeless (if that is the case).  I told em so, and "nothing happened" except more delays, but it is "supposed" to be better now.  (yea right).  

[Oceanbound]

VA doesn't move like Dominoes.  Even Dominoes had to stop marketing "30 minutes or its free" because my neighbor was the one that got ran over back in the day.

[ArmySgt2014]

Little bit of an update.

 

As of Today-10/4/18

My claim has moved into preparation for notification. 

Side note- not sure if it helped but I interviewed for a position with Congress, during my interview, one of the ladies that works the VA claim side for the Congressman made me fill out a release of information forum and sent it into the VA as a Congressional Inquiry. I'm not sure if that sped anything up, but it moved.

 

Anyways, I'm really nervous for the outcome. I'm not sure if I'm going to be appropriately rated or not. Guess I'll have to see. I still have some questions as I'm basing all of this off of the unreliable Ebennies. 

 

Can it go back into a different process i.e pending decision approval or etc... if it is showing pending notification in Ebennies? 

 

Also, Is it 1 year to file an appeal in the event I receive adverse ratings?

 

What is the timeline for retro-active pay?

 

- I'm not sure how they will calculate it, I got off of T-10 in NOV 2017, last AD check was 12/1/17. Will the benefit be retro to December since that's when I got off of AD or will it go to JAN because I was paid on 12/1 even though the pay was for 11/15-11/27 in 2017? 

 

Thanks to anyone who can provide information.