Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission

Nightmares associated with PTSD

feeds@yuku.com (jaengelkes) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:47:37 GMT

My hubsand is rated 50% for PTSD and overall rating 70%. Sombody said if he has nightmares he can get extra money in his check, is this true?

Increasing VA disability rating 1 year after release from TDRL- dx Multiple Sclerosis

feeds@yuku.com (Kymztwinz) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:13:03 GMT

I'm not sure if I'm asking this question in the right forum. In February 1998 my husband went on a rapid deployment to Kuwait. After a month, the deployment was downgraded to a training exercise. While there, he was given an Anthrax vaccine. A couple of months later he started complaining of "floaters" in his vision. His unit returned in July 1998, and his symptoms increased to numbness from the feet up through the waist. He had tests run, and a spinal tap showed...

VDBC vs. PCARWW update

feeds@yuku.com (rockygb) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:18:57 GMT

VDBC vs. PCARWW: Congress created the Veterans Disability Benefits Commission (VDBC) in 2004 to review, among other things, whether disability compensation benefits were "appropriate". The VDBC began meeting in MAY 05. Over the next 30 months it held 55 days of hearings, listened to hundreds of witnesses, interview over 20,000 veterans and survivors, surveyed thousands more VA and veteran service organization employees, commissioned two Institute of Medicine studies and the...

vet looking for answer?

feeds@yuku.com (fredmarine1225) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:06:47 GMT

iam a vet also iam at 40 percent for my both kness, shoulder and left foot.Iput in for incease for that couple of month go and was sent for a C/P phyiscal.I aslo had a claim in for PTSD for the past 2yrs. they finally found the stresser that i been taking about and now have sent me to another C/P phyisal. MY gaf score was .45 and looking at there Gaf chart it would put me at 70 percent just for PTSD not counting my other 40 percent. will they add both score togerther to make 100 percent....

vet looking for answer?

feeds@yuku.com (fredmarine1225) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:03:25 GMT

Today Iraq, tomorrow the world!

feeds@yuku.com (gon2korea) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:19:34 GMT

For all the vets worrying about whether Rep's or Dem's are best for vets, consider this: If another administration like Bushes is elected and their intended wars on Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, or anyone else who does not like Israel, are carried out, there will not be a single living person in the US who is not a disabled vet. I guess we will then be a majority and the majority is supposed to rule in a Democracy.
God, I hope the Muslims never invent "the ultimate...

Disability "Overhaul" Bill Introduced Dole/Shalala Commission recommendations.

feeds@yuku.com (Rob12Ret) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:23:02 GMT

Legislative Update Mar 7

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the Ranking Member on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, introduced "America's Wounded Warrior Act," S. 2674, last week to overhaul DoD's disability retirement system and modernize the VA's disability compensation program. These reforms are an upshot from last year's Dole/Shalala Commission recommendations.

The bill would reform the military disability retirement system and streamline...

any news on proposed comp increases

feeds@yuku.com (veterun) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:31:53 GMT

Trying to find out if congress in their great wisdom has offered any bills to increase comp rates as of late.

Getting ready to get rated and I have a question

feeds@yuku.com (ladykingsd) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:16:46 GMT

My husband has a brain tumor and is in the MEB/PEB process. We just went to the DTAP class yesterday and they told us to make a list of all of his medical conditions for the VA in order to get rated. My husband thinks that every scar durring the 12 years of service should be on this list. I am confused as to what exactly the VA is rating him on.

Do we go through his entire medical record and make a list of every diagnosis that he has ever had? Or is it only his present...