How a Supplemental Claim can help you.

[broncovet]

Woods and Woods explains that you can submit a SCL "even if" you are not in the 1 year appeal period, provided that you have new/relevant evidence.  

I would "exercise caution" using HLR.  Why?  Well, because we often dont know, in real time, what is in our file.  Is an exam dated dd-mm-yy in our file?  "Unless" you can see that exam either on the evidence section, OR you can view it in your VBMS file, you dont really know.  You see, your file is constantly changing..stuff gets deleted, new stuff added.  So, has that exam been deleted?  You can check your VBMS (if you have a VSO or lawyer who has access) but "just because" it was in your paper cfile 3 years ago, you can not be sure if its still there.  If its not, it would not be the first time your VARO "lost" important evidence, or, sometimes, sticks it in another Vets cfile.  

https://www.woodslawyers.com/supplemental-claim-timeline/?utm_source=WednesdayEmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-10-28

[brokensoldier244th]

VBMS Delete function is only available to GS11 ish level or above. VSRS and RVSRs can't delete things out of the documents folder. The feature doesn't exist. There are different version of VBMS with different levels of permissions, so if a document is moved its documented that it was moved or deleted- the program won't let you do it, otherwise. 

 

Exams are dated on the exam sheet by the doctor, and then again after they are submitted to your file. There is the exam date, and the system date. It doesn't track 'time' of day that im aware of, unless its in the background logs or IT database. There is no spot in the table that breaks it down by time of day. The doctors report might, but the system (VBMS) doesn't. 

 

 

[GBArmy]

Good info sharing by Brokensoldier. The VA has a lot of procedures and systems. What used to be how they processed thing may change, maybe, even for the better, maybe not. But for sure, it makes changes.What's the saying-“There is nothing permanent except change.”

[ShuMan]

I would agree! Supplemental claims in my experience are going just as fast as a FDC right now! 

[USMC_VET]

2 hours ago, ShuMan said:

I would agree! Supplemental claims in my experience are going just as fast as a FDC right now! 

Mine was decided within 75 days start to finish