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Effective Date Provisions for Supplemental Claims for Comp and Pension Claims Filed Within a Year of a Decision from the USCA for the Fed Circ or Supreme Court.

When submitting our initial disability claim, should we do what we can to guide the reviewer because my medical history documents is 400 pages long? Such as listing the page number diagnosis A is on. Or should I print everything out, highlight all diagnoses, and scan into system? Tbird Founder of HadIt.com Veterans Founded Jan […]

What do you need to get from 90% to 100% service-connected disability compensation?

VA Disability Claims Glossary will aid you as you pursue your VA Claim. There are words, acronyms, abbreviations, and more...the VA has its own language.

Caluza Triangle – Caluza vs Brown defined what is necessary for service connection see COVA– CALUZA V. BROWN–TOTAL RECALL This has to be MEDICALLY Documented in your records: Current Diagnosis.   (No diagnosis, no Service Connection.) In Service Event or Aggravation. Nexus (link- cause and effect- connection) or Doctor’s Statement close to: “The Veteran’s (current diagnosis) is at […]

Should we wait for CUE decision before filing additional VA disability claims?

Claim Status can go back and forth, you can go from Pending Decision Approval back to Review of Evidence. eBenefits status is helpful but not definitive.

To receive compensation, you must have a physical or mental disability. An injury or disease in service that caused a disability or aggravated a disability that existed prior to service.

I’ve had friends, family, clients that have needed to file for disability, and for the right reasons. They’re very sick or whatever it may be, and they really did not realize that they had to have worked five out of the past 10 years. They thought maybe because they had worked 20 years, and they […]

OIG conducted an inspection in response to complaints about the timeliness and quality of care in the Emergency Department (ED) and Primary Care of the Memphis VA Medical Center (facility), Memphis, TN, which is part of Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 9. OIG did not substantiate the allegation that Memphis ED personnel were inattentive and […]

OIG reviewed the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS) Teleradiology Reading Center (TRC) to determine the merits of an allegation that radiologists stopped reading exams for CAVHS patients when they had reached their minimum Relative Value Unit (RVU) level and then performed fee-basis interpretations for other VA facilities during their tours of duty under a […]