Va Not Service Connected

Service connected disability rating at 100 with an additional separate 60 percent service connected disability rating.

Va not service connected. VA claim denied not service connected. There can be many reasons. 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. You might currently have a medical problem but you cant link it to your active serviceIf your ankle has an obvious problem but you cant prove it happened when you were deployed the VA will deny your claim for ankle trauma rating.

Proving a Service Connected Disability With Missing Records Events Missing From Military Records. This page contains links that will take you outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs website. Health care enrollment subject to income requirements Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility. VA does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of the linked websites.

VA says that your illness is not related to service To get service connected benefits you have to show that there is a link or nexus between what happened in service and the current diagnosis. Sometimes the VA will say that your injury is not connected to your service. 10 point veteran preference in Federal hiring. They both said that the Aid and Attendance is a NON SERVICE CONNECTED pension benefit which means the disability did not have to occur during the vets military service.

Proving Service Connection Without Service Treatment Records. Accessing VRE through the Integrated Disability Evaluation System IDES. Cassandra Crosby Claims Advocate Updated. Records get lost the veteran was treated at civilian medical installation and the records have been destroyed.

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. If VA says that they are not connected then it probably did so based on an exam from its own doctors a CP exam. In our experience this is another very common reason why you get a sorry veteran. Burial and plot allowance.

The veteran didnt get treatment because they were worried they might get medically discharged due. I applied for Aid and Attendance for my Dad to the VA using Form 21-2680 Examination for Housebound Status or Permanent need for regular aid and attendance. Information is gold in realm of VA claims and what you glean from that packet could be grounds for a reconsideration or appeal. For example a veteran who is applying for PTSD disability benefits might be denied because there is no record of an IED attack.

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. Non Service Connected with Aid and Attendance or Housebound. Lots of veterans have a service connected disability denied because of events missing in their military records. This veteran can use buddy statements later explained in this article to prove an event happened.

The veteran failed to show a clear nexus or logical link to an in-service disease incident injury or event needed to prove service connection under the law. Many veterans have illnesses or injuries that occurred while they were active duty but there are no records of the illness or injury.