Fully Developed Claims Program and Standard Claims Process VA Form 21-526EZ, Application for Disability Compensation and Related Compensation Benefits The VA implemented this form in an effort to reduce the back log of claims and speed up the adjudication process. It is part of the fully developed claim initiative recently announced by the VA. A fully developed claim (FDC) is a claim submitted to the VA with all private medical records and notification of any treatment received by the … [Read more...]
Benefits Granted After Twelve Years and Three Remands
In 2009 an Army veteran came to our office seeking assistance for an increase rating in his lumbar spine condition. He served in Thailand with an Engineer Battalion building the Bangkok Bypass during the Vietnam War. He fell from a crane and fractured vertebrae in his low back and spent several weeks in a hospital in Thailand. He returned to his unit, completed his duty to the United States Army and was released with an honorable discharge. After service he filed an application for service … [Read more...]
Missing War Records?
In a recent article the ProPublica, an independent, non-profit public interest investigative journalism newsroom, described how electronic records have disappeared and left many of our veterans without proof that they were in a war zone. The article was published in The Seattle Times on November 9, 2012, under the title Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. ProPublica reported that hard drives were wiped and records were lost or never … [Read more...]
VA Backlog Continues To Grow
The VA has been struggling with adjudicating claims for several years as the influx of claims has continued to rise as a result of troops returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Vietnam Veterans continue to pursue compensation for the residuals of Agent Orange and combat. The VA is currently receiving over a million claims a year. The VA Strategic Plan for fiscal year 2011-2015 details the plan to improve many aspects of the benefits that our veterans are entitled too. On of the … [Read more...]
Agent Orange and the Fairchild C-123 Provider
The VA’s Office of Public Health recently released their findings in Agent Orange Residue on Post-Vietnam War Airplanes an investigation in connection with the possible exposure to herbicides in post-Vietnam War veteran’s who were crew members of the Fairchild C-123 Provider, which were used to spray herbicides in Vietnam. The Office of Public Health determined crew members of the C-123’s exposure to herbicides, such as Agent Orange, was “minimal” and could not have resulted in health effects … [Read more...]
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