What Standard Does The Va Use To Determine Evidence

[mountain tyme]

mt

Edited May 17, 2007 by mountain tyme

[Vike17]

Goofycow,

If you have service-connected disabilities rated at 50% or more, you're eligible for healthcare at VA facilities for those rated conditions and non service-connected disabilities. I'm not up to speed on the VHA proceedures except that you need to enroll by filing, I think, VA form 10-10, or something close to that and showing them your DD 214. Being rated at 70% you should be in the highest catagory if memeory serves me correctly. If I'm worng oin this, i hope some one will correct me. It's just been so long since I've had to deal with enrollment and so forth.

"According to their own standards, you should have the VA dead to rights, but sadly VA seems to play by thier own rules only when it suits their purpose"

VA is playing by the CFR 38, the M21 manual and the Manual Rewrite, and sadly many veteran have a poor understanding of the basic rules and criteria for applying for service-connection.

Vike 17

[Berta]

This is evidence too----

"My Mother who has wrote a statement regarding the assualt (also she was the one who contacted our senator after my assualt)"

anything whatsoever that she has or could get to prove this would be considered persuaive evidence-

Even if this Senator is no longer a senator- he/she could be contacted to perhaps offer some documented recollection-

I know they often keep a lot of documentation that stays in the files when their predesessor takes over-

My former Congressman intervened on my husbands care and his veteran's liason helped them transfer when he left and when we got a new Congressman.

I called them one day- same secretary that my older Congressman had and she seemed to remember me and Rods issues-but it had been years since I griped about VA to them-

then I remembered that they have a card or PC index in many of these congressional offices

and can pull up right away anything they have there when they get a call or a letter from someone-

The Senators office or even a new senators office might surely have some documentation on this when your mother contacted them.

This certainly would be supportive evidence.

Also- everytime a congressional person looks into any VA matter they ask the vet or complaintant to sign a release form.

I have release forms I signed in my C file-

The Congressman and 2 senators sent this form to the VA with their inquiry on the particular issue.

The letters in response from VA are not there but I have them.

It is quite possible that your mother might have saved a signed acknowledgement or copy of a senatorial release form that would support what you went through-and that it prompted her to do this and contact a senator-

there must have been something to show this was looked into.

Edited January 20, 2007 by Berta