Mental health claim denied via raters opinion. AMA attached

[FlyboyLeRoy]

Mental health claim denied even with a private dbq/nexus & c&p exam nexus/dbq that are both favorable and agreed upon diagnoses. Attached is my appeal for higher level review. How does it look to you?

[Berta]

Whether VA acknowledges any type of evidence, or not-

I have filed CUE or myself and prepared them for a few others here- on Evidence they had but never acknowledged as well as Evidence the had but ignored.

if the VA did not formally reject the buddy statement with some documented BS in the decision,

What I mean is, they might list something that is probative, as evidence, then never even read it.

Like:

Evidence :the veteran's SMRs-

and then the decision shows they never even read the SMRs.

I hardly think most C & P doctors take the time to read SMRs either.

We are forced to do the VA's job ourselves.

One thing they do that drives me nuts ,is when VA says  JSRRC could not confirm a stressor- then the C file reveals they never even wrote to JSRRC.

In my personal experience the VA said ( in letters to me and my Congressman, and my two state Senators, that SSA refused to release my husband's SSA records to them.

He had signed and mailed the Authorization form before he died and it was in his C file.

After I called SSA directly in Baltimore, on hold for quite a while, a man told me they had absolutely nothing from the VA requesting his SSA records.

Will the VA lie?

Of course they will.

We are forced to do the VA's job ourselves. 

The idiot who denied my REPS application at VA, could not even read the brief SSDI letter SSA sent him regarding the REPS benefit.The prior VA REPS man had already approved it.

I called the REPS idiot  up in anger ,and taught him how to read it. He was fairly new on the job but I also told him he probably denied many valid REPS apps - a benefit that was over 20 thousand to me-applied for by widows/widowers of Vietnam Veterans who fell under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act.

After that phone call-the check was in the mail.

I bumped up the REPs benefit info in th AO forum --- it could affect Blue Water Navy AO 12 mile limit widows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 18, 2020 by Berta
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