Tag: veterans

VA Disability Claim worth another look

Journaling

Yeah, I know I told myself that I’m good where I am with my VA disability already and not file for increase or anything. It’s a little more convincing, however, to try again, when enough people talk about success stories with increase and new claims. And I know I have at least one disability to make a new claim, plus increased effects of existing rated disabilities.…

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VA fiasco is ‘typical’

From My Perspective

It’s been a number of weeks now since this Veteran’s Administration debacle has blown up. I guess there isn’t much to opine about it that hasn’t already been said by one person or another, at one level or another, or in one form or another. It all boils down to the VA, like almost all other government departments and functions, being so full of layers of bureaucratic bullshit that it is crippling itself.…

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Leave the claim thing alone

Journaling

I was reading, with more scrutiny and comprehensiveness, my VA compensation award letter and its attachments this morning. These government things are written so bureaucratically that it’s so difficult to understand, at times, what I’m reading and what I’m reading really means.

There is an explanation section about how they rated my various claimed disabilities, why, etc..…

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Better late than… well, better late…

Journaling

About having received my VA compensation claim settlement/award letter and was given 70% disability rating. I filed my claim last August, 15 years late (was supposed to do it as part of retirement separation). People urged me to file and not to wait because I’m losing out on disability payment. Well, I didn’t think much of it because I had never been significantly injured while on active duty… okay sore/strained arches from running more than I’m used to at times.…

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