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COLA Chatter – 2023 Increase – History’s Highest?

[ad_1] Lately, there’s lots of chatter about the COLA for next year being the biggest since 1980 when it was…

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Secretary concession SMC part of every claim for increase; The Secretary further concedes that because SMC is an issue within an increased rating claim, the Board should have considered whether the appellant filed a claim for an increased disability rating for his left eye condition earlier than January 2014 or, at a minimum, considered 38 C.F.R. § 3.400(o)(2), which allows under certain circumstances an effective date up to 1 year prior to the date of a claim for increase. Secretary’s Br. at 9.; the Secretary further concedes that, to the extent that SMC may be considered part of a claim for increased compensation, see Akles v. Derwinski, 1 Vet.App. 118, 121 (1991) (concluding that the RO “should have inferred from the veteran’s request for an increase in benefits . . . a request for [SMC] whether or not it was placed in issue by the veteran”), the Board should have addressed whether the appellant sought SMC through an increased rating claim for his left eye disability prior to January 2014 or whether 38 C.F.R. § 3.400(o)(2) applied. See Secretary’s Br. at 8-10. The Court will accept the Secretary’s concession, ;

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No plans to increase abortion services at VA after Supreme Court ruling

[ad_1] Veterans Affairs leaders are vowing to continue “providing reproductive health care” to patients in the wake of the Supreme…

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Austin Says DOD Must Increase Efforts to Destigmatize Mental Health Care > U.S. Department of Defense > Defense Department News

[ad_1] Both the White House and the Defense Department, said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, have made…

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I love how they have $20 million for new ideas but not to increase mental health support. : Veterans

[ad_1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/05/25/va-offers-20-million-prizes-new-ideas-reduce-suicides-among-veterans.htmlSeen this made me lose my mind. I’ve been going on nine months back-and-forth with the VA to get…

2 years ago

Panel Application; section 1155 directs the Secretary to establish in the rating schedule “ten grades of disability” for evaluating the severity of such conditions, the Secretary has provided less than ten levels of disability for most of the conditions listed in the schedule. See generally 38 C.F.R. §§ 4.71a – 4.150 (1992). Therefore, the schedular ratings established by the Secretary for compensation purposes may not in all cases provide a sufficiently comprehensive basis for determining when a measured worsening of a particular veteran’s condition in service constitutes an “increase in disability” for purposes of establishing service connection through aggravation under section 1153. This would seem to be so where the next higher rating is more than one decile greater. Furthermore, the rating-schedule provisions may not in all cases provide the most accurate or most logical basis for determining whether there has been an “increase in disability” during service. For example, with respect to organic mental disorders and psychoneurotic disorders, the rating schedule provides for disability ratings based on a finding that the condition causes “total”, “severe”, “considerable”, “definite”, or “mild” social and industrial impairment. See 38 C.F.R. § 4.132, Diagnostic Codes 9300-9411 (1992);

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3 years ago

Single Judge Application; Shoemaker v. Derwinski, 3 Vet.App. 248, 253 (1992); Bankhead, 29 Vet.App. at 18-19; the criteria listed by the Board are those pertaining to the 100% rating under § 4.130, not the 70% rating the Board mislabeled it as. As a result, the Board didn’t properly consider if the veteran’s PTSD was more severe than a 50% rating but less severe than a 100% rating. When the veteran specifically requests an increase in his or her rating, the Board has an obligation to explain not only why the symptoms comport with the assigned rating criteria, but also why they don’t comport with the next higher disability rating criteria. Shoemaker v. Derwinski, 3 Vet.App. 248, 253 (1992); Bankhead, 29 Vet.App. at 18-19.;

[ad_1] Single Judge Application; Shoemaker v. Derwinski, 3 Vet.App. 248, 253 (1992); Bankhead, 29 Vet.App. at 18-19; the criteria…

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Veterans treatment court program working, but needs VA improvement to increase access: watchdog

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Filing for GERD Increase | HadIt.com For Veterans Who’ve Had It With The VA

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Canadian rugby veteran looking to increase concussion awareness

Team Canada is in Japan for the Rugby World Cup, but for the first time in 20 years, the team…

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