Attorney fee Decision notice???

[Izzy923]

So, I’ve been lurking this forum for the last 9 years and it has been my go to for any information VA related. And I apologise if this is a question that has been asked and answered before but I have searched thoroughly and haven’t found but one mention and it didn’t really explain what it was. 
I noticed today that a claim was opened and closed labeled Attorney fee Decision notice. Now I know from this forum and personal experience that attorney fee eligibility is always a good sign and I’ve always had positive results after seeing it. But I’ve never seen this one. 
I do have an attorney. I’ve been rated at 80% since Oct. 15, 2015, sent NOD on March 22, 2016 for upgrade on ptsd, asthma, and IU. That appeal is still sitting in DRO review. I added my wife as dependant last year and my daughter this year and received retro for both and both had attorney fee eligibility opened and closed (the most recent closed Oct. 30. 2019). I also noticed a foia opened May 29, 2019 that’s still in gathering phase. 
So would the Attorney fee Decision notice be for the DRO appeal and just not updated yet on VA.gov or ebenefits? Or is it something else? Sorry for the long post. 
 

[Izzy923]

3 hours ago, broncovet said:

Well, what "Peggy" told you makes no sense at all.  If a SOC HAS been sent, like she said, then its not still "under DRO review".  

It gets worse.  There no longer is a SOC.  Its been eliminated with AMA, I think, as of Feb. 19, 2019 BUT there are still legacy appeals out there, so it still makes 0 sense.  

It wont be the first time a VA employee has ever "misguided" a Veteran and/or relayed inaccurate, untimely, or just plain wrong information, tho.  Guiness book of World records no longer is asking for people who have been lied to by the VA as they already have 9 zillion applicants for "the first" person who VA has ever lied to.  

My advice is to wait for the envelope and to take what VA employees say to you with a grain of salt.  

Thanks a ton. It’s a damn shame when a person can get better information from a stranger online than a govt employee paid to give info. Enjoy your holidays

[Oceanbound]

On 12/17/2019 at 4:41 PM, broncovet said:

Thank you for searching to see if the question has already been asked and answered.  I have answered similar questions so many times, that I do get tired of answering them over and over.  However, I know that "not everyone" is good with a search engine so I try to help even tho I have likely answered their questions before.  

 

***SEARCH ENGINE******ALERT---ALERT---ALERT

Not only that but even GOOGLE itself CAN NOT find videos from 2006 in youtube when Youtube was at it's early days. AND GOOGLE is THE SEARCH ENGINE and now owns Youtube. I wrote about this fact in college after they bought youtube. If you were smart enough to actually 1. downloaded the video because even the creator could have deleted it later for what ever reason or 2. you actually saved the link to the video and hope that it's still there. 3. that you actually downloaded the video and details about the creator for later use.

 

EDIT- so even if it was ask, doesnt mean it would show up in the search. For this example you would have a better chance of cracking AES-256 encryption with your Gameboy with dead batteries, than me finding that one youtube video from 2006 with Google.

 

Edited December 29, 2019 by Oceanbound
example

[broncovet]

Someone posted a "way back" search engine that searches old stuff.  I can not rememeber the name of the search engine.  

[blahsaysme2u]

https://archive.org/web/

i believe its the wayback machine search engine. let me know if this works