Filing for GERD Increase

[DevilDocJay]

Greetings Moto's, 

I have recently received my C FIle and in review of the C&P I had for GERD.  I was granted service connection and rated at 10%.  Given what I am reading in my C&P exam I think things were not taken into consideration as based on the examiners notes I qualify for a 30% rating. 

What is the best way to go about requesting this increase? 

TIA 

Jason 

HM2(FMF/SCW/DV) 

 

[GBArmy]

DevilDocJay Welcome to Hadit and congrats on your disability award. Service connection is the hard part. GERD is rated under  VA diagnostic code 7346; look up the criteria to meet to get from 10 to 30%. If you do indeed have those symptoms in your records, you could just submit a HLR appeal with a new statement in support of the case. In matters of judgement of facts, I wouldn't. The DRO is more than likely just going to rubber stamp the 10% rating. What I would do is go to a specialist that will fill out a dbq for you that confirms that in his/her opinion your symptoms deserve the higher rating. An increase from 10% to 30% goes from $144 to $441 a month. IMHO it's worth the investment getting you a payback within a few months. No matter what, you need to submit some type of appeal within a year of your letter to get the EED alive back to your original submittal date.

[pawmbi]

Hello

I had the exact same issue.  Got SC for GERD but at 0% disabling.  I did an online DBQ (150 bucks) submitted it along with a lay statement and got it kicked up to 30%.  You passed the hard part getting is SC.