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Blue Water Navy - if Nehmer kicks in
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We have no idea yet if Nehmer will kick in with favorable EEDS for some, if not many, Blue Water Navy vets re: Procopio decision.
Now is the time for any BWN vet ( or their survivors)to pull out any past VA decisions that shows a AO presumptive was claimed .
and was rated and deemed as NSC ( not service connected).
Then ,if Nehmer kicks in, the veteran or their survivors would have a chance for a very favorable earliest entitlement date.
This depends on if Footnote One - Nehmer 2010 applies, to any Blue Water Navy AO veteran- that is yet to be determined.
AO has been the most important issue of my life, since 1991, until something else happened at VA last year- and that serious issue, which involves all veterans in the VA health care system, takes up most of my time these days.
Others here can help if I am not available- regarding the Footnote One aspect:
Footnote one is explained here :
https://community.hadit.com/topic/66483-footnote-one-nehmer-a0/
There are ten additional pages of discussion regarding Footnote One and the 2010Nehmer decision, available under a search, as this caused some very high retro payments under the 2010 Regulations, available under the search feature.
Footnote One applies to surviving spouses as well, and Nehmer has conditions for payment to the next of kin, if the veteran's spouse is deceased.
My decision is explained here as well....
My husband's IHD "should have been" coded by VA in a past 1998 decision, per Footnote One . With evidence of the IHD malpractice, to NVLSP, the codes kicked in, and he received ,posthumously, a EED going back to 6 years prior to his death, for Ischemic Heart Disease ,never diagbnosed or treated by VA) and a subsequent additional DIC award had to be prepared.
Since many Blue Water vets have died during this long process regarding potential AO comp, their survivors will need to understand the new Nehmer regulations when and if they are prepared. I will post here any news from NVLSP on that , and also they will surely open their AO email addy again.
I am sure many BWVs do not even know that their ships might be on the AO ship's list by now. Many do not even know about the Procopio decision yet.
When Nehmer 2010 became law we had many many AO claimants here. In time this can happen again.
If I am not available to help- I know they will get accurate advice in this forum from others.
Widows of BWN vets also have to get out any past VA decisions that could reveal a chance for DIC, as they might have been denied for DIC in the past.
If Nehmer kicks in as to the past accrued regulations, they also might have a valid accrued claim. All explained in this forum under a search.
We might get more BWN widows than we expect. Maybe more than veterans of BWN themselves.
8 years have passed since the last AO Nehmer Court Order, and as I say here often, VA is not our enemy-
time is.
I even wonder if all of the vet reps and VSOs out there have heard the Procopio news yet.
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