VAwatchdog wrote quotes from VSO's who wrote to Jim Strickland. It appears what we vets have felt all along. VSO's and VA employees are one of the same. Some VSO's feel its the vets responciblity to get records.
Vets get lawyerd up now while you can.
Come June the law will pass allowing vets lawyers. Come the month of May the must pass bill to take away vets rights to lawyers may pass. If we ever do get lawyers a huge battel to take it away shortly there after will begin.
IF you hire a lawyer now to take effect in June before the bill is passed and taken away or shortly there after while the bill is still in effect. The VA will have to grandfather you in and let you keep your lawyer. IF you wait to hire a lawyer they my pass the bill taking lawyers away again and you will be at a loss.
When my mother hired a lawyer for me in 2002. The VA did not like that so they changed the rule not allowing third parties to hire lawyers on behalf of veterans. I got my 100% and back pay for 6 years with my lawyer.
The best thing to do now is hire a lawyer as soon as possibel so the lawyer will be grandfathered in if congress changes the law again.
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Dear Fellow veterans & Friends
VAwatchdog wrote quotes from VSO's who wrote to Jim Strickland. It appears what we vets have felt all along. VSO's and VA employees are one of the same. Some VSO's feel its the vets responciblity to get records.
Vets get lawyerd up now while you can.
Come June the law will pass allowing vets lawyers. Come the month of May the must pass bill to take away vets rights to lawyers may pass. If we ever do get lawyers a huge battel to take it away shortly there after will begin.
IF you hire a lawyer now to take effect in June before the bill is passed and taken away or shortly there after while the bill is still in effect. The VA will have to grandfather you in and let you keep your lawyer. IF you wait to hire a lawyer they my pass the bill taking lawyers away again and you will be at a loss.
When my mother hired a lawyer for me in 2002. The VA did not like that so they changed the rule not allowing third parties to hire lawyers on behalf of veterans. I got my 100% and back pay for 6 years with my lawyer.
The best thing to do now is hire a lawyer as soon as possibel so the lawyer will be grandfathered in if congress changes the law again.
Terry Higgins
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