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Ugh, loving VA. I put in a claim when I got back from Iraq and had my C&P exam done while I was visiting my parents because they live five minutes from a VA medical center. That was about a year ago. No matter how many times I try to change my address with them, the VA still sends mail to my parents' house. Then when I filed my appeal (my knees are going and they gave me 0% on both) they claimed that I told them I wanted the American Legion to represent me during the process. I have no idea where they came up with that, because when I wrote my appeal letter I never used the words "American" or "Legion," let alone any combination of the two. So far I see the inability to process a change of address and, apparently, the willingness to fabricate statements attributed to me. This isn't going to end well, is it?
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rockamiclikeavandal posted:If you're just going through regular va channels you will be hosed. There should be an OEF/OIF office at the hospital where they will fast track you. It was the OEF/OIF office giving me the runaround. When I finally saw someone, the dude who had been ignoring my calls and e-mails for months was listed as the guy you see if you had comments/concerns/complains about the program. I decided not to tell him what I thought of him.
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Sep 11, 2011 04:14
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TLG James posted:Does anyone know if tinnitus without hearing loss is an actual compensation(able?) thing? Man I hope so. Mine's getting really annoying.
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Nov 30, 2011 15:32
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edit: never mind, completely irrelevant
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Jan 5, 2012 06:45
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Hummer Driving human being posted:I know AGR and other Guard Soldiers get the shaft in many situations because they are serving full time under Title 32 (which does not count), but will ADOS-RC orders count because it's "real" AD time serving under Title 10? I think they changed it so that Title 32 orders count. However, ADT time, such as AT, still does not.
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Jun 10, 2012 00:04
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rockamiclikeavandal posted:Anyone appealed their disability rating? I'm trying to figure out how long I should expect this to take. A year and a half and counting. In the letter I received acknowledging receipt of my appeal, they talked about poo poo I never said in my letter such as appointing the American Legion to represent me.
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Aug 10, 2012 18:09
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FooGoo posted:Did you have the option for a DRO review before going to appeal? How long did that take? If I did, nobody told me about it. So I guess it was pretty quick?
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Aug 11, 2012 14:35
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Wooty posted:To be rated 100% mental health, you have to be in very bad shape. Really? I thought all it takes was going AWOL in Kyrgyzstan to get an abortion.
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Aug 14, 2012 03:27
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My last VA regional hospital left me stranded at a completely different hospital because they had to transfer me. Apparently they didn't have anyone who could do an ultrasound in their ER at 7:30 PM on a Tuesday. Then they tried to dodge the bill and make me pay it.
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Sep 16, 2014 14:25
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Isn't going to the ER for a non-emergency thing the worst thing you could do since it ties up resources and time from the ER staff and is the reason why wait times at ERs are so heinous.... I didn't know it wasn't an emergency at the time. Also I was the only person in the waiting room at the ER. Still took an hour to see me.
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Sep 18, 2014 01:55
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I'm at 258 days since I filed my claim and I'm still waiting on my loving C&P. Hopefully contacting my senator has lit a fire under it. At least I'm going to get a shitton of backpay when they finally deny my claim and I appeal it successfully in 2021.
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Oct 7, 2014 21:23
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The disability claim I filed in January has unexpectedly gone from "collecting evidence" to "preparation of notification," presumably because I got a VSO to work on it. Though I am concerned that the VA has made a decision regarding my shoulder without scheduling me for a C&P. I'm completely expecting them to grant me a 0% rating, forcing me into appeals hell. But I'm not going to yell too loudly for now, on the outside chance they gave me an actual rating.
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Dec 6, 2014 06:25
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Welp, I was wrong. I didn't get 0%. They told me that my shoulder injury is unrelated to my service. Moral of the story, kids: Get every single last thing documented. That stiff shoulder you think will go away? It might not and might get worse. Welcome to appeals hell, I guess.
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Dec 10, 2014 05:49
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cult_hero posted:Out of interest, why did they deny you? It's the first one. I'm going to start asking buddies who were with me to write letters saying "yeah, I remember him bitching about his drat shoulder."
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:I'm kind of drunk but in the past hasn't the VA just pretty much told vets to get their disability poo poo through the state and Medicare Every time I contacted the VA asking what the hell was taking so long with my claim (I had been backlogged several times over) they told me to contact a VSO. I contacted a VSO and within a couple weeks my claim was denied! Without benefit of an exam! gently caress the VA.
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