carlie Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 John, Can you copy & paste - then re-post your question. I am sorry - yesterday when I made this as a pinned topic, I thought it would automatically also close it from comment. I just want it in our archives for reference. Thanks, carlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Borrowed from elsewhere and may not be up to date. ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AVAILABLE FOR SERVICE CONNECTED DISABLED VETERANS EVALUATION BENEFITS 0% To 20% Certification of Eligibility for home loan guaranty. Home loan guaranty fee exemption. VA Priority medical treatment card. Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling under title 38 USC Chapter 31 (must be at least 10%) Service Disabled Veterans insurance (Maximum of $10,000 coverage) must file within 2 years from date of new service connection. 10 point Civil Service Preference (10 points added to Civil Service test score). Clothing allowances for veterans who use or wear a prosthetic or orthopedic appliance (artificial limb, braces, or wheelchair) or use prescribed medications for skin condition, which tend to wear, tear or soil clothing. Temporary total evaluation (100%) based on hospitalization for a service connected disability in excess of 21 days; or surgical treatment for a service connected disability necessitating at least 1 month of convalescence or immobilization by cast, without surgery of more major joints. 30% In addition to the above: Additional allowances for dependent(s) [spouse, child(ren), step child(ren), helpless child(ren), full-time students between the ages 18 to 23, and parent(s)] Additional allowances for a spouse who is a patient in a nursing home or helpless or blind or so nearly helpless or blind as to require the aid and attendance of another person. 40% In addition to the above: Automobile grant and/or special adaptive equipment for an automobile provided there is loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, loss or permanent loss of one or both hands or permanent impaired vision of both eyes with central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in better eye. Special adaptive equipment may also be applied for if there is ankylosis of one or both knees or one or both hips. 50% In addition to the above: VA Medical outpatient treatment for any condition except dental. Preventive health care services. Hospital care and medical services in non-VA facilities under an authorized fee basis agreement. 60% In addition to the above: Increased compensation (100%) based on individual Unemployability (applies to veterans who are unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment due to service connected disability) 100% In addition to the above: Dental treatment. Department of Defense Commissary privileges. Veterans employment preference for spouse. Waiver of National Service Life Insurance premiums. National Service Life insurance total disability income provisions. Specially adapted housing for veterans who have loss or permanent loss of use of both lower extremities or the loss or blindness in both eyes having light perception only plus loss or permanent loss of one lower extremity or the loss or permanent loss of use of one lower extremity with loss or permanent loss of use of one upper extremity or the loss or permanent loss of use of one extremity together with an organic disease which affects the function of balance and propulsion as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes or wheelchair. Special home adaptation Grant (for veterans who dont qualify for Specially Adapted Housing) may be applied for if the veteran is permanently and totally disabled due to blindness in both eyes with visual acuity or 5/200 or less or loss of or permanent loss of use of both hands. 100% (Permanent and Total) in addition to the above: Civilian Health and Medical Program for dependents and survivors (ChampVA) Survivors and dependents education assistance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhilly Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 great stuff, thx... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michellee Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Could "contaminated items" be brought back stateside from the Persian Gulf area by US military personnel and possibly have affected family members or other soldiers/sailors/marines/airforce they may they have traded clothing/equipment with? This is interesting because when I left for Kuwait I had 20/20 vision and when I came back after about a year I was wearing bifocals and see grey bodies floating to this day. I've tried to tell this eye doctor at the VA hospital and asked him why had my vision changed so quickly and what was causing all the symptoms I now have like cant see the line in the road at night cant see certain colors, He tried to tell me that it is my age and that these eye changes is a normally part of aging yet I am only 43. I never wore glasses up until I was pulled out of a hole returned home and medically boarded out. So I was just trying to make sense of my eye condition and changes in sight. My military entrance records all show I had 20/20 vision all throught out my 14 year career until I come out of that hole and sent back conus. I would wondered maybe I hit my head some sort of way going down and shook my eyeballs loose I didn't know what to make of it. Another doc at the VA when I mention it for reasoning all of this told me that this is impossible change and If I think I am going to pin that on the military that its a big jump. I wasn't even trying to do so simply was trying to get answers on what is going on with my sight. It is still gettinging increasingly worse and I am changing perscriptions yearly in the past 3 years. Just got a new one in Feb and was told my eyes had worsen. I can only see 3 feet in front of me with out my glasses. I still wonder what happen to my eyes. I had perfect vision before I left for the Gulf. I dont plan to file a claim or wasnt planning on it then when I was questioning those doctor but they acted like I was trying to get something and made a comment to that affect. I had to actually get their head out of their @#$# and say look I'm not trying to get anything can I get an answer to what you think is cause these problems with my vision. The answer they finally gave me is aging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Will Dove USMC Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It is funny I found this, My eye sight has gone from 20/15 to 20/40 in my right eye, and is 20/30 in left eye. I just turned 30, and my family eye doctor thought it was very strange that my eyesight changed that much in just 2 years. I wonder if there is some truth to this article and something we used or was explosed to in Iraq has damaged our eyes. I think I will call my eye doc back and talk with him about this. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPub...asp?pub_ID=1789 Department of Veterans Affairs VHA DIRECTIVE 2008-070 Veterans Health Administration Washington, DC 20420 October 28, 2008 PRESCRIBING HEARING AIDS AND EYEGLASSES 1. PURPOSE: This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides policy for uniform criteria necessary for prescribing hearing aids and eyeglasses (sensori-neural aids) to veteran patients. 2. BACKGROUND: Public Law 104-262, the Veterans Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996, changed eligibility laws to allow VHA to furnish prosthetic appliances to veterans. However, that law further provided that VHA could not furnish sensori-neural aids (hearing aids and eyeglasses) except in accordance with guidelines that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prescribes. Subsequently, the Department published regulations (Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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