Nice glad you finally got movement, you're in the home stretch now. My timeline is very similar to yours, how many claims did you have? I call once and week and get the same stuff about decision phase. Some weeks I am assigned to a team, some weeks they say I am not lol.
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I had 25 claims i sent up through the MSC and they ended up having 47 items claimed through findings in my C&P exams and received at least 10% for 33 of those findings. Hopefully in the next call or two they will tell you that you've been assigned to a rater! It's pretty qui
Thanks for the info. I think i had 21 or 22 going up that I did with the MSC and record review. I wish this process was more intuitive. It sucks trying to plan life after IDES lol.
Looks like I’m right around the same timeline as you- myFSS email on Nov 14 and sent to DRAS on Nov 15. Hope we hear back soon.
same here however i just called and this time they told me the last note on my claim is that i was assigned to a rating team 14 Jan. so maybe im actually assigned now.
yes roughly, i got the myFSS email 13 nov and submitted to DRAS 19 Nov. do you know if a single rater is different than a rating team?
What I was told is that the case is assigned to a rating team after it is submitted to DRAS for ratings, then it sits in that team’s queue until it’s next in line to be assigned to an available rater on the team. My MSC said “Once your headquarters makes a fit or unfit decision, your claim will go to our office in Providence for a rating and that takes about 60 days.” which made me believe that maybe all or at least a good portion of Air Force IDES claims are assigned to a dedicated team in Providence? I’m based in CA and my MSC works for the Los Angeles region which is why I had assumed all of the cases had to go to the Providence team if mine was sent there… but also every step of this process has made me realize I know nothing about it
All the IDES cases are based in Providence, with the exception of the Army which is Washington State somewhere IIRC.
thank you for this information! ive been in this whole process so long that everything i have read has been wrong for me lol
I believe the rating team means its in a queue to get looked at and when its assigned to a single rater, its actively being looked at (rated).
Got an update for mine today, VA rep says it moved to step 6 ( i thought there were only 5 steps for IDES). Step 6 is preparing a decision letter/final review. Hoping its a good sign. Will update again once my claim is closed. Originally found unfit back on 19 Nov for context.
there is 8 steps in the VA process from what i was told. perfect i was found unfit 19 Nov as well. so hopefully im not too far behind you
Gotcha. It was another thread that
heck yeah! I made. Claim closed this morning! On this one it references 5 steps which is what I was referring to in a previous post.
heck yeah! I made. Claim closed this morning! On this one it references 5 steps which is what I was referring to in a previous post.yay mine closed today to!! im still confused on why they said there was 8 steps to me as well
I think a normal claim is 8 steps and our claim through ides is still 8 steps but when it closes it out, because it’s ides, it puts it at the “other claim” type which is 5 steps? I don’t even know what I just wrote there.
lol either way we are sooo close to being done! im excited to be finished w this whole process.
VA told me mine is in final review now, so looks like I’m a few days behind you. Will be refreshing the app like crazy next week!
Nice! Hoping its only a few more days for you!