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I went to the VA Hospital and wanted to request a copy of my health records from date of 2002 EAS to now.....for my SSD attorney basically and for me to copy and put on DVD/CD for records. When did the VA start charging Veterans for their records as they said (to disencourage Veterans to lose, or to have duplicate records available to them) The Correspondence clerk said I had to pay .75 pp.......at 294-300 pages I had to pay almost 187.00 for records....What a crock....when asked where does that money go, NOBODY could answer me...not the Advocate, the Correspondence, not the Supervisor.....its just a bill that the Vet has to pay.....Has this been a topic of discussion for a while? Has this happened to anyone and how did you deal with it.

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I went to the VA Hospital and wanted to request a copy of my health records from date of 2002 EAS to now.....for my SSD attorney basically and for me to copy and put on DVD/CD for records. When did the VA start charging Veterans for their records as they said (to disencourage Veterans to lose, or to have duplicate records available to them) The Correspondence clerk said I had to pay .75 pp.......at 294-300 pages I had to pay almost 187.00 for records....What a crock....when asked where does that money go, NOBODY could answer me...not the Advocate, the Correspondence, not the Supervisor.....its just a bill that the Vet has to pay.....Has this been a topic of discussion for a while? Has this happened to anyone and how did you deal with it.

Spike the first copy is free, after that they always charge.

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ODD! I requested a copy by letter, citing the privacy act, foia, and the VA's obligation to help in "perfecting" my claim. With a couple of phone calls, it took about 6 weeks. No fee asked or charged.

I went to the VA Hospital and wanted to request a copy of my health records from date of 2002 EAS to now.....for my SSD attorney basically and for me to copy and put on DVD/CD for records. When did the VA start charging Veterans for their records as they said (to disencourage Veterans to lose, or to have duplicate records available to them) The Correspondence clerk said I had to pay .75 pp.......at 294-300 pages I had to pay almost 187.00 for records....What a crock....when asked where does that money go, NOBODY could answer me...not the Advocate, the Correspondence, not the Supervisor.....its just a bill that the Vet has to pay.....Has this been a topic of discussion for a while? Has this happened to anyone and how did you deal with it.
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You may be able to get your state Department of Veterans Affairs to get the copies for you. The State of KY does not charge vets for documents.

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Another option is looking through the records and only getting copies of relevant documments. Especially if you were in the hospital. They have pages and pages of check off sheets that don't tell you anything. The attorney would probably only need the reports.

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You know what I found is that the chiropractor had them. I got them back and I am in the process of scanning all 350 pages and burning them to disc in adobe. That way I can just copy the heck out of them, and I can give the doc/attorney who ever a copy of the disc and file the records in the safe and important docs. Remove them from computer. With everything going digital, paper just gets messy and lost :lol:

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