First and foremost thank you to all the vets out there for your service.
(second sorry for posting in wrong board the first time :P)
While out-processing at Fort Drum, my VA contact informed me that it was possible to have the recuping percentage reduce down if you/ your family were in dire need of income. Does anyone know where this is or even if it is true? I have read through most of the post and have the M21 downloaded and constantly review it and search for information on this. (and yes the term severance pay is so misleading that it needs to be changed, all it is is a tax-free/ interest-free loan from the VA.)
Did 14 years, two surgeries in the neck (broke the first fusion then got new fusion fusion, plates, rods, bolts, screws), have chronic pain loss of feeling in right arm w/ loss of strength, then once on the outside the Tricare doctors listened to me and found another herniated disk in my lower back plus while cutting me up on Valentines days for a hernia they found a lypoma the size of a golf ball in my groin region (and no hernia), (so 4 chops before my 40th birthday). Was only given a 20% disability from the Army and sitting at 50% with the VA. Hard to work with the medications they have me on, tried applying for IU, my doctor even says that I can work and wrote out the letter, but after the review, they denied me saying I didn't met the 70% requirement and that my disability was based more so on ROM and that pain or medication intake had nothing to do with it.
Thank you for any and all information on this.
(second sorry for posting in wrong board the first time :P)
While out-processing at Fort Drum, my VA contact informed me that it was possible to have the recuping percentage reduce down if you/ your family were in dire need of income. Does anyone know where this is or even if it is true? I have read through most of the post and have the M21 downloaded and constantly review it and search for information on this. (and yes the term severance pay is so misleading that it needs to be changed, all it is is a tax-free/ interest-free loan from the VA.)
Did 14 years, two surgeries in the neck (broke the first fusion then got new fusion fusion, plates, rods, bolts, screws), have chronic pain loss of feeling in right arm w/ loss of strength, then once on the outside the Tricare doctors listened to me and found another herniated disk in my lower back plus while cutting me up on Valentines days for a hernia they found a lypoma the size of a golf ball in my groin region (and no hernia), (so 4 chops before my 40th birthday). Was only given a 20% disability from the Army and sitting at 50% with the VA. Hard to work with the medications they have me on, tried applying for IU, my doctor even says that I can work and wrote out the letter, but after the review, they denied me saying I didn't met the 70% requirement and that my disability was based more so on ROM and that pain or medication intake had nothing to do with it.
Thank you for any and all information on this.
