How To Lose Your Claim

How To Lose Your Claim

If you want to lose, it's easy. Don't file a well prepared claim. Don't provide evidence that supports your allegation. Do most of what is required poorly and ignore the rest. Be sure that your evidence conflicts with other evidence and don't offer an explanation. Be a jerk. Be hypercritical of all others in the process. Use plenty of profanity. Get personal with people you don't know. Write public documents and later tell everyone you don't want them to be public. Always remember that rules are made for other people. You'll be a loser, guaranteed.

I write about how to win the VA disability claim benefit you deserve. I've been writing on this topic since 2005. I advise veterans to claim what they have earned through their military service and nothing more.

Filing a claim for disability (or any other) benefits is a business transaction. It isn't any different than buying a car when you get right down to it. If you want to buy a car you know there is paperwork to do. You must have evidence of your secure job and proof of income before anyone will finance you.

Consider: If you stormed into your local auto showroom and demanded that they sell you a vehicle but that you aren't going to take the time to do the proper paperwork, how far do you think you would get? Do you believe that the dealer would simply accept your word that you're a good credit risk and a truthful person and hand you the keys?

Why would you expect that VA will give you money each month for the rest of your life without properly completing the paperwork?

If an error is made by the loan company or bank when you purchase that car, how do you react? Will verbal assaults against people you don't know help? Or would you work to fix the error and eventually walk away with your shiny new vehicle?

The case presented on this page is a matter of public record. This is real. I do not know the veteran. The 3 documents you'll see presented here are freely available on the CAVC web site.

Not everything you say and do in this life is private.

Protesting that you want your records to be kept from the public after the fact is usually a waste of everyone's time. Before you go into a written assault, consider how you'll feel when the rest of the world reads it. You can't unring the bell.

There are so many errors here it's hard to know where to begin. I'll suggest that you read it all for yourself. I'm only going to make a few entries on this web page that will refer to the general rules you should follow...or practices you should avoid.

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When you file a claim, you must be sure that it is well grounded. I know, I know...the lawyers reading this will tell me that the "well grounded claim" rule is no longer in effect. That's correct. Your claim is not required to be well grounded for the VA to give it full consideration and put it through the process. However, if your claim is not well grounded, you lose anyhow.

What is a well grounded claim? It's a claim that has reasonable evidence to support the allegation, made by an eligible veteran or the veterans representative. In this case, I see very little supporting evidence.

Every piece of everything you write will eventually be read by another person. Would you say what you're writing to their face?

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Your claim is decided on the credibility or your evidence. If there is anything lacking, confusing or incomplete in the evidence, your personal credibility will count.

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