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They’re currently recouping my severance pay even though my disability was “combat related.” My DD-214 clearly states “combat related, non VA recoupable,” as do my physical evaluation board findings. The VA’s own regulations couldnt be more clear about this, nor could the laws of the United...

Ive been contending that the VA has wrongly been recouping my severance pay since my disability was deemed “combat related”... and I just received a new letter with the corrected monthly amount, but ebenefits and the VA hotline both say its still at the partial amount, and I have yet to receive...

Thank you very much for taking the time to give such a thorough response. I called today and was assured that the DRO would be able to see what I’m actually appealing, I guess it’s just hard for me to have TOO much faith that people will work this sort of stuff out unless its all as clear as...

I appealed a decision I believe to be incorrect and am waiting for a decision review officer to go over my case. When I check my case status on vets.gov, it shows the issue on appeal as being “severance of service connection,” but I’m actually appealing the fact that the VA is wrongly recouping...

Thank you sir, dont have a hearing yet but wanted to make sure that when the DRO first views my case he’ll also be looking at the documents i mailed in.

Or does new evidence need to be submitted specifically during a DRO hearing? Thank you guys for your help.

Bump. Any other advice on this? Again, I was already approved for and enrolled in the program, but then denied training based on the fact that I already meet the minimum qualification for my chosen field. Is it too late to try another field? Am I stuck? Thank you.

I went through IDES and was approved and enrolled in voc rehab, have been in the program for a year, but my counselor now says that since I already possess a bachelor’s degree that training is no longer available to me, and that I can’t even use it to re-train in a different field. Are they...

Thank you, thats incredibly helpful. Unfortunately it looks like ill need to go down the rabbit hole of appeals on a this, but youve given me very clear evidence that my claim is legitimate. Thanks again.

Its sort of a tricky situation because my injury was declared combat related, conditions simulating war. So, I was never involved in armed conflict. However, it does appear that the service considers to injury to have occured during combat related operations, as I received a seperation code of...

My claim was submitted back in november and was initially closed in March when I received and accepted my proposed rating. Then open claim appeared that just got closed on July 5th, but a third claim appeared marked only as “IDES,” which apparently was opened the day after my discharge in May...

Thank you for the explanation...i guess then that theyll only back date my va payments to when i was discharged then? I thought it might reach all the way back to when the claim was filed.

This new one just popped up and is dated back to the day after I received a medical discharge. Still no rating in ebenefits though, and letter generator still shows no service connected disability. No clue whats goin on. Any experience with this? Thanks for ur help.

Thank you for the reply. Interestingly, ebenefits wont let me update my direct deposit information because it says that you can only do that if you have a claim that is under consideration for compensation or has been awarded compensation. So, idk. Maybe im just expecting it all to be sorted out...

So, I was rated at 30%, accepted my findings, gave my direct deposit info to my VSO, and in ebenefits under historical claims it does show the closed claim. However, the same claim appears under open claims, my direct deposit info does not appear on ebenefits where it should (just my mailing...

Not sure if it has to be legitimate armed conflict or what. Thank you for your assistance.

Anyone know how to delete comments im really just doing a lot of bitching in that last post i gotta get rid of that

My estimated completion date is 4/29-7/31. In your guys's experience does it tend to go more toward one direction than the other?

My package was received by the VA on Jan. 31st with no updates since. I hope I havent pissed anyone off by calling so much, but I'm stuck as a recruit on Parris Island right now, my life is fucking shit. It's been eight months now, I'm starting to have a really difficult time psychologically, I...

Ebenefits says "pending decision approval" but vets.gov is in "evidence gathering, review and decision." Not sure what any of it means. Package went from PEB to VA on Jan. 31, according to my case manager. I called the va hotline but they didnt have useful information, just told me what it said...