BVA APPEAL SLEEP APNEA

[NAVY NC]

I called Peggy and she was very rude, acted like  I was smoking crack said she couldn't see anything on this particular appeal. 

 

Thanks

[brokensoldier244th]

Probably, since  it's been sitting with no activity. 

[Buck52]

1 QUESTION?

WHEN WE REQUEST OUR C-FILE  ON THE FORM IT ASK WHAT IS THE REASON YOUR REQUESTING YOUR C-FILE?  FOR CLAIMS PURPOSES OR OTHER?

WHY DO THEY ASK THIS?  ITS LIKE THEY WANT TO BE PRE WARNED   LOL.

I USUALY COME BACK AND SAY SOMETHING ALONG THESE LINES

''SO I CAN READ IT  AND KNOW WHATS IN IT''

ITS RATHER A SILLY THING TO ASK A VETERAN  THEY KNOW EXACTELY WHY WE WANT OUR UP-DATED C-FILE.

[brokensoldier244th]

Because if there is a PHI/PII security audit (of which there are regularly) VA has to be able to say why the information was released. The records are not 'yours', they are the property of the VA. The individual records you upload are yours, and whatever you get from your private provider are yours, but there is a good chunk of Cfiles that are records from other federal entities, healthcare providers, VAMC, Service Records repositories, etc- they are not 'your' records except that they are about you. Its like my house appraisal for a VA loan a few weeks ago. My lender ordered the appraisal at the behest of VA for the purposes of the loan. The appraiser could not legally give me the results directly, they had to be provided by my lender or the VA reviewer- I was not the client. 

 

I got approved, by the way, finally, after 2 months of manual underwriting. We close tomorrow. 183,600 @ 1.75%, APR 1.83, 30 yr fixed. 

Edited March 17, 2021 by brokensoldier244th

[pacmanx1]

Let's try to stay focused on the OPP (ORIGINAL POSTERS POST) 

We just had to clear up another post thread that was HIJACKED AND IT IS REALLY WRONG IF moderators/elders go off some tangent.

21 hours ago, NAVY NC said:

I called Peggy and she was very rude, acted like  I was smoking crack said she couldn't see anything on this particular appeal. 

Not really sure what you are looking for, but it appears that the BVA just granted your service connection. Basically, the BVA agreed that your condition is service connected, and they should have sent you a letter in the mail. It will take a few days to get to you, but it will also have to go back to the VARO to be implemented and assigned a rating percentage. 

[brokensoldier244th]

1 minute ago, pacmanx1 said:

Let's try to stay focused on the OPP (ORIGINAL POSTERS POST) 

We just had to clear up another post thread that was HIJACKED AND IT IS REALLY WRONG IF moderators/elders go off some tangent.

Not really sure what you are looking for, but it appears that the BVA just granted your service connection. Basically, the BVA agreed that your condition is service connected, and they should have sent you a letter in the mail. It will take a few days to get to you, but it will also have to go back to the VARO to be implemented and assigned a rating percentage. 

Nothing in OP's post description indicates anything towards whether it was granted or not. Phone people can't give out the results of claims, anyway- thats what the decision letter is for. The rest was clearing up what phone people can, and cannot see, which is a huge misconception among veterans that call 1800 and assume that they are talking with someone that has POA access levels and authorization to tell them whatever they ask. They don't. 

[broncovet]

Buck...When you call Peggy, the person on the phone probably does NOT have access to your entire cfile.  If they did, it would take them a very long time to figure out what is going on, reading thousands of pages.  

Instead, they have access to another VA computer system which is more of a "summary" as to where your claim is at, in order to give Vets who call in a "status".  Its insufficient to rate your claim, that is a much more complex process than just checking the status which Peggy does.  

The Vets "cfile" is very classified information, and not available to VA employees "except on a need to know basis".  

If Jane Smith, a VA employee in VARO Dallas, wants to know about her brother's claim in VARO Missouri, she probably can not also see the entire cfile, because she is not the rater for this claim.  The access is restricted to VA employees actually working on your claim, and is not available to the janitor who has nothing to do with any VA claims.  

If I have an account at my base exchange online store (I do), I can not access "your" purchases if you also have an online BX account.  

Computer access is actually complicated, and yes, I studied it in college.  

In a similar way, you and I have access to hadit files as a moderator, and we can do stuff regular members can not do.  But tbird has "unlimited access", that is, she has permissions to do stuff we cant do.  We can not change the name of the company that hosts hadit websites.  

In a similar way, VA employees "only have access" on a need to know bases.  That "ask Peggy" phone girl "does not" need to see when/if you are having surgury and on what, when you call, because she does not need to know that!  So, she is not given permissions to access your medical file.  But, your doctor needs to know this.  So he would be given this permission. 

But, your doctor would "not" have a need to know, for example, if you were appealing to the BVA, filing a HLR, or not appealing at all.  He is not involved with your appeal, and does not need to know that stuff.  He is involved with your treatment, and needs to know the medications you are on, to make sure you dont have an allergy, and the like, but not anything to do with appeals.