Va Decision Not Service Connected

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Va decision not service connected. If VA did not service connect your requested condition the decision letter explains why the condition was not service connected. The VA should have considered your secondary service-connected disabilities as well. No evidence of current disability symptoms. If youre looking to prove a service-connected disability without service records the team at Hill Ponton is here to help.

In certain cases the VA is required to provide you with a medical examination to obtain an opinion about whether your disability is service-connected. If your VA disability claim was denied our attorneys are available to support and represent you. This veteran can use buddy statements later explained in this article to prove an event happened. Though Veterans are entitled to service-connected disability benefits studies have shown that the Department of Veteran Affairs DVA rejects up to 70 of claims for various reasons.

Proving a Service Connected Disability With Missing Records Events Missing From Military Records. No clear nexus to prove service connection. The VA will decide if your impairments are service-connected. If you have had a service-connected disability claim rejected and you disagree with the decision you need to file an appeal.

Lots of veterans have a service connected disability denied because of events missing in their military records. Even then if the decision stands as not service-connected it WILL contain valuable information as to how they came to that conclusiondecision. Service Connected Matrix Non Service Connected Matrix Circumstance Matrix. Your VA Rating Decision letter will inform you of whether or not the VA considers your impairments service-connected.

The VA Didnt Provide A Medical Examination or Opinion. If VA says that they are not connected then it probably did so based on an exam from its own doctors a CP exam. Information is gold in realm of VA claims and what you glean from that packet could be grounds for a reconsideration or appeal. The takeaway here is this.

Your impairments will receive a VA rating. In your VA Rating Decision letter the VA will give all your service-connected impairments a. If you have questions about your rating decision you can always go to your local Veterans Service Organization VSO sit down with a representative at your local VA office or call the VA National Call Center at 800-827-1000. To determine service connection for other conditions or exposures not eligible for presumptive service connection VA considers factors such as the amount of radiation exposure duration of exposure elapsed time between exposure and onset of the disease gender and family history age at time of exposure the extent to which a nonservice exposure could contribute to disease and the relative sensitivity of exposed tissue.

Make sure all your impairments are listed on the Rating Decision. Okay lets explore each of these reasons in detail and chart a path for you to get your VA disabilities service connected under the law. These are known as derivatives. Double-check the VAs work.

The VA is required to provide this exam when there isnt sufficient medical evidence in the file and there is. No medical diagnosis of a disability. There are additional benefits that you may be eligible for that are based on a favorable decision for a VA benefit andor based on special circumstances. If between September 25 1985 and May 3 1989 the VA denies a claim for a condition which was not then listed as a presumptive service-connected condition but then later grants a claim for the same condition as a newly listed presumptive service-connected condition the effective date will be the date of the claim previously denied.

For example a veteran who is applying for PTSD disability benefits might be denied because there is no record of an IED attack.