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Please consider talking to a SSDI attorney in the Fayetteville/Fort Bragg area before your time to appeal is up. Most of the folks are well versed in how to help vets, WTB soldiers, and the life at all stages of the MEB/PEB process dealing with social security. They usually offer a free...

Spouse received retirement orders on Friday 11 April that were dated 31 March. His last out date is 5 May. Hooray! A couple of questions on the paperwork he received. There is a line Disability Retirement: X Years X months X Days Basic Pay: X Years X Months X Days The Basic Pay line is how...

Spouse signed and emailed his 199 last night after talking with legal. Legal was pleased with his outcome, particularly since every step along the way something got messed up significantly. Spouse was informed that it would take around 10 days for him to hit the next step, and approximately 30...

Spouse received and reviewed proposed ratings. He has not signed to accept, pending review by JAG as a "make sure it is all correct" measure. Unless JAG finds a specific reason to appeal he intends to accept. 70% Army PDR/ 100% VA proposed eligible SMC unclear if eligible for CRSC SSDI...

It stinks. Spouse has had to extend multiple times to allow the medical board to complete. His ID was set to expire and due to the weather he couldn't renew it before it did. Now there is a problem with being able to renew it due to they "can't see his orders to extend in the system". Can he...

Finally had some movement today on spouse's ebennies. We hadn't checked them in two weeks due to travel restricting internet access. Ebennies now says "Preparation for Decision". I know time lines during this period fluctuate wildly, and I am pretty sure whatever the average is, his file is...

Part of me feels kind of sorry for the spouse's current PEBLO (third one this year). She is trying to make some progress, or at least encourage progress, but everything with him has been delayed, so we aren't terribly surprised the VA is still trying to rate him. She did email him yesterday that...

The idea of the good year popped into my head too. Spouse had a tough time getting a good year this year because he had a very difficult time getting an AT set of dates due to the medical board and the restriction of travel as a result. He managed to get a "home station AT", but we lost money on...

For those of you who are in the reserves many drill weekends have been cancelled with no rescheduling date due to the shutdown. If your unit has not contacted you about it, you may want to contact your chain of command. I know for the spouse, he was told that Lodging and Kind (the provided...

I really appreciate the input and assistance. It definitely makes for a list of better prepared questions, and there is only so much my research skills can uncover. Opposed to making a new forum, I am going to continue on this forum with updates :). Update: We did receive the extension, as the...

So here is an inventory of what spouse received via email: 3947 with incorrect birthdate Narsum 3349- Permanent profile with MAJOR changes 7652-commanders' statement Med Profile-med list with no current medications listed, only has old meds listed (which is incorrect, because he's diabetic for...

Update on spouse: Thank you for the suggestion of calling the ombudsman. It wasn’t something I thought would work as quickly as it did. The ombudsman at JBLM was awesome, and even though he was somewhat limited in his options (and was having to work a furlough schedule), he was able to get in...

I wasn't able to get anyone on the phone with the patient advocate at any of the bases, and with the ombudsman, there seems to be according to them some disagreement on which office I should use (where we live, where he's assigned, where his file is etc). Some guidance on the rules of how the...

We had a telephone brief that occurred more than 5 months ago with his first PEBLO, and we also had the telephone JAG briefing about 3.5 months ago. According to the briefing, after his final C&P appointment it should be approximately 35 days at the longest to receive his NARSUM. Well we've...

Update: The spouse finished his appointments in Mid July. He has not heard from his PEBLO since May, even though he has contacted him. His MSC has really been going to bat for him to get the appointments, which is appreciated. His unit has failed to file the paperwork to get him properly paid...

In regards to the training and letting the PEBLO and MSC know, he sent copies of the orders to the PEBLO in April (when his original PEBLO got promoted and replaced) and the MSC in June (when he received the first contact from him). In addition to the orders we sent emails regarding upcoming...

His PEBLO and MSC are at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.So it's not like he can pop into their office and ask to talk to them. It has been a problem on previously missed deadlines as well.

He is going to be out of state for annual training with the Reserves. He is a drilling reservist, former active duty. The location that he is going to is not close enough to drive to, nor is it close to another VAMC. The annual training dates he has been told are set in stone, and that he can...

MSC finally contacted spouse and apologized for his packet sitting on a desk (but not the MSC's desk) and the deadline being missed. MSC requested the C&P exams from the local VAMC; he stated spouse should get hear something by the end of the week to schedule the approximately 14 appts. That...

Mostly tongue in cheek. . .but seriously is anyone else unable to get any VA page to load in particular ebennies? Finally got contact from the MSC (weeks past the deadline) and now can't get into ebennies to see the information that is supposed to tell us what else is needed. Have been trying...