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JKWilliamsSr
I have a rather interesting situation maybe someone can shed a little insight on. To be honest it seems baffling to me. Monday my attorney told me that according to VBMS I am at 100% with an effective date of 2019. I believe this happened sometime last week. What prompted the email is according to my attorney the VA sent him a letter because they have a problem with our contigency agreement. I went back and read the agreement. It is a pretty straight forward agreement. No tricky sentences getting me to agree to anything out of the ordinary. The agreement is for 20% of backpay received. I am very grateful for my attorney. He took me from 50% to 80% to 100% and has earned every cent. I have been fighting the uphill battle since 2009 and am not close to the finish line.
I am probably making an assumption but my guess is the VA does not plan on paying my attorney from the backpay. I have no idea what the issue is with the agreement. My attorney did say I should be getting a letter in the mail from the VA about this and I should see a deposit from the VA any day now. He did say it would be easier to invoice me after my deposit for the 20% and I am perfectly fine with that. My entire expectation was 20% of all backpay and I knew this going in. What is confusing to me is why does the VA have an issue now? When I went from 50% to 80% the paid my attorney directly. Why not now?
But I digress....here is my question.
VBMS shows a rating with an effective date. What could be holding up the update on ebenefits? Would the fact that this was based off an appeal from the BVA? My guess is someone is looking at the issue of backpay because a decision was made on attorney fees. Yet as I type this there is no update on Ebenefits and my appeal is closed.
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brokensoldier244th
Benefits is not VBMS, Its set to close completely in March last I knew, which was a month ago that I checked. Take little that you see of it to be up to date. Pretty much everything has moved to VA.go
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ebenefits/va.gov have a "notorious reputation" for being not up to date, in accurate, incomplete, or just plain wrong. Im not sure this will be fixed any time soon. However, "one part" of eben
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