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Sec. Wilkie yesterday on BWN AO vets
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The Secretary was on Fox news, briefly yesterday, and stated that there are potentially 560,000 Blue Water Navy veterans, to include those who are deceased and their dependents-that have a potential for a AO disability award. I checked this AM with some news outlets on line and they too have that figure-much higher than the 90,000 initially expected.
Secretary Wilkie also said that the VA is trying to find and contact those vets.It would be easier if this was National News, and posted at every VA lobby, but much of this will come from word of mouth, so we all have have to ask any Navy vet we know-who might be affected by this news, if their ship was within the 12 mile limit from Vietnam , during the war and if they have any AO disability.
As you all might recall, the VA ,when the 2010 AO presumptives were , VA;s were supposed to go through their records to find any veteran or their survivor who would be eligible for AO disability, based on past rating sheets.VA was supposed to contact them. A few here never got that contact, and I sure didnt.
Blue Waters can file their claims now-but there is a stay until 2020 on adjudicating them.
But the most important thing any Blue Water or their survivor, who has or had in their lifetime a AO presumptive, can do now, is to review all past rating sheets the veteran had to see if any disability on the AO presumptive list is rated and also deemed as NSC in the past decision.
It appears Footnote One Nehmer will kick in....it should if these veterans get true AO equity....and that older rating decision will provide the best Earliest entitlement date they can get.
This is why spouses should be PC literate. The American Legion opened an article on HR 299 for comment and so far there have been 87 posts.
I found some sailors there had been on the VA AO ships list for quite some time and didnt even know it, as well as one BWN widow.
I asked them to join us here but so far no one has.....but I expect that discussion to grow and I am willing to be there to help.
Maybe once the regulations are prepared, there will be more public news on this.
I certainly have no faith in the ROs in trying to find Blue Water Navy vets who might have a potential claim.
It would be great if the VSOs out there went through all of their files as well- but they probably won't.
As you know we have a new member here with a new AO IHD claim potential and I bet there are many more vets or their survivors who never filed for AO comp but could have.
And still can.
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