100% Awarded for Schizophrenia - Vietnam Service Connected!

[john999]

The only thing better would be to get retro for all those past years of denials considering he filed his claim in 1982.  If a vet or his helper does not know the formula for winning an increase you can be frustrated for years and years.   I would never have gotten my P&T without using a couple of IMO doctors that were willing to stick their necks out for me.  These doctors are retired now.   Many doctors will not give you the ^%%$# of their &^^% if you ask them to just say that it is as likely as not that your condition is service connected and that you meet 70%-100% requirement.  No VA doctor will do that I ever knew.

 

Did your brother have schizophrenic episodes while in the service?  When I was in the army you really had to be determined and troubled to even see a shrink.  To get a decent rating for something like schizophrenia without indecent delays you probably must be hospitalized and discharged for it.

[VIETNAMVETFAM]

Hi.. Thank you for your reply...  I will scan his denial letter like you said.. Yes he is in current treatment.. Continued treatment always in the VA.  In and out of the hospital..  Yes John.. You are right.. The va will not give a letter..  And they say he never complained while in service.  That's their reason.   Also.. Is it possible to get retro pay from a previous claim error from years ago?  Thanks all..

[broncovet]

Yes, its possible to get retro pay from years ago!!  Mostly you have to fight for it.  

(Im fighting my effective date, right now.  Im at the CAVC and have hired an attorney, Chris Attig.  Since Im at the CAVC, I wont have to pay attorney fees, as they will be paid by EAJA).   

[VIETNAMVETFAM]

I have read that if there is no new evidence.. which it says on his denial .. That the claim is the same as the first and that means an error..  We are sending for all medical records.  We don't think that his early records were ever looked at.  

[Vync]

Congratulations to you and your brother!