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Re: Making an initial claim?--DBQs, FDCs, VSOs, PhDs, MPRs (reply) Not sure if you have seen this page or not, but there is a specific process to follow for fully developed claims. If the process is not followed as defined, the claim routes into the regular processing of claims. I have no experience... |
VA Disability Claims (General) | 12/01/12 13:52:06 |
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Re: Hearing c/p exam (reply) Why don't you request a copy of the C&P exam results? I don't know how it works where you went for the C&P or what the process is for requesting them, but if the VA does them you only need to ask for them at their records office. When... |
E-Benefits/IRIS/1-800/Claim Timelines | 12/01/12 13:37:04 |
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Re: who decides what is moved to another forum (reply) Hi there! The moderators decide when and where to move it...usually because there is a forum elsewhere on the board that is more specific to your question. For example...a question about Agent Orange issues placed in the General Forum... |
VA Disability Claims (General) | 12/01/12 13:26:24 |
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Re: 30% for IHD? wtf? (reply) The VA does rate based on estimated METS at the C&P. My husband's rating was based on estimated METS rather than LVEF from echo and the DBQ clearly stated it was estimated. The VA would not accept his private cardiologists DBQ because... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 12/01/12 13:13:38 |
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Re: Rating Award Package Results/observations and Question re Retired Pay (reply) OK Jerryleitz. Will do |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/26/12 00:31:38 |
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Re: Rating Award Package Results/observations and Question re Retired Pay (reply) Gentlemen, thank you! I understand it better now. Nickfuhs, yes, I applied for SSDI last year...his disability was so profound it went through in about 6 weeks. I think between SSDI and then the VA claim I have fried my brain... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/25/12 23:30:24 |
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Re: Rating Award Package Results/observations and Question re Retired Pay (reply) Hi Nickfuhs, Thanks for the reply. I actually filed the claim and checked the box to NOT waiver. (My husband is so profoundly impacted by the brain injury that resulted from his lengthy cardiac arrest he is not capable of filing or... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/24/12 12:56:35 |
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Rating Award Package Results/observations and Question re Retired Pay (topic) My husband's rating award package arrived today for IHD and secondaries and he is rated as I describe below. They say he cannot receive his retirement pay and his VA compensation at the same time (though I think that is phased out... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/23/12 23:09:19 |
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Re: Preliminary Rating Decision/Award (reply) Thanks for the clarification Cruiser. |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/08/12 00:23:41 |
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Re: Preliminary Rating Decision/Award (reply) The gal who called me DID mutter something about August 30...we shall see. |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/06/12 22:25:53 |
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Re: Preliminary Rating Decision/Award (reply) Wow. I'll keep you posted what comes in the letter. IT may be something I need to explore further. |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/06/12 20:27:36 |
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Re: Preliminary Rating Decision/Award (reply) Dman, Thanks. We are both pretty lucky to have each other. Best friends..fighters...soulmates. He would do the same for me if he could and I needed it. LouF...Thanks. Wow..I did not know that. I had looked at it once but... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/06/12 15:45:21 |
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Preliminary Rating Decision/Award (topic) I just received a call from our VARO to talk to my husband. When I explained he would not be available to come to the phone and why and explained I had third party permission and DPOA, she went on to speak w. me. She was... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/06/12 15:17:22 |
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Re: IHD and secondaries (reply) In order for them to be secondary to the IHD they need to be directly caused BY the IHD OR a/the TREATMENT of the IHD or its complications. There would need to be a strong medical nexus linking the two together. Personally, I think it... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 11/06/12 14:59:03 |
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Re: what will I need (reply) Huskey, there does not need to be heart muscle damage...there does need to be evidence of a diagnosis of IHD...or CAD and a EF score and/or METS score (they want both I believe but if METS via stress test is contradindicated I think they... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 10/16/12 16:04:47 |
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Re: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS ... (reply) I think you don't necessarily need to go to the RO if it is a distance (as ours was). I used a local Reserves center...which I found through the RAPIDS site here: http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/rsl/appj/site?execution=e3s1 I DID have one... |
E-Benefits/IRIS/1-800/Claim Timelines | 10/15/12 21:37:37 |
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Re: HISA grant problem (reply) Phantom....delve into their materials list on the estimate. If they are proposing high end tiles, for example, with loads of trim tiles etc, you can take a LOT off the cost of the job by going with a simpler design, less costly tile... |
VA Disability Claims (General) | 10/15/12 21:24:54 |
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Re: HISA grant problem (reply) I think I might try two things. 1, a higher end kitchen and bath design company who advertises that they do universal design and see if any of them qualify and are willing to forbear the paperwork burden and would be willing to go... |
VA Disability Claims (General) | 10/15/12 03:08:10 |
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Re: so a couple of months ago i got a congressman involved (reply) Kungfoo, while not as long as your wait, my husband's claim was filed 8/5/11 for presumptive IHD and secondaries related to it (it's complicated). The claim had stalled at rating due to a VSO "error"...or difference of opinion...and got... |
E-Benefits/IRIS/1-800/Claim Timelines | 10/03/12 22:24:15 |
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Re: Meds Question (reply) Hi Nick, thanks for weighing in. Yeah, I know what it says...but he is gun shy. Evidently he rewrote scripts that a single doc wrote, not knowing there were other meds being taken concurrently and written by yet ANOTHER private... |
Agent Orange, Heart Disease, Prostate and Parkinson's | 09/30/12 12:49:33 |
