What You'll Find Here
Up-To-Date News About Your Benefits, Headlines Important To You, How-To Articles & Links to Pros Who Can Help.
Entitlement to service connection
for bilateral foot disability claimed
as secondary to
carbon tetrachloride exposure.
What You Won't Find Here
User Fees, Hidden Fees, Rumors,
Requests For Donations, Mailing Lists
or Registration Requirements.
Veterans Benefits Administration Reports
Detailed Claims Data Status Reports
Reports contain data covering claims inventory, claims backlog, claims accuracy, and Fully Developed Claims.
PART I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
PART II—GENERAL BENEFITS
PART III—READJUSTMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS
Disability benefits can enhance your independence and help you care for your family
Veterans’ Benefits Rating and Rates Disability Compensation
Veterans who have disabilities, medical conditions or injuries incurred or aggravated during active military service —
no matter when or where they served — may be eligible to receive tax-free monthly benefits.
Are You Having A Claims Crisis?
Delays? Misinformation?
Call
855 - 948 - 2311
Or Email
<Denis.McDonough@va.gov>
Yes, this really works.
Be sure to include your DOB, your last 4, contact info... a couple of numbers, your preferred email and such. Describe the problem as briefly as you can.
Budget Projects Employment Growth
at VA, Agriculture, Other Agencies
Some 29,000 of those
positions would be at the VA
Many service members use industrial solvents in regular military tasks
Benzene Tetrachloroethylene
(PCE or PERC) Acetone Trichloroethylene (TCE) Xylenes
I forgot to tell the examiner some things, now what should I do?
Alabama
CASE PREVIEW
Justices to consider scope of “clear and unmistakable error” review of Veterans Affairs decisions.
Jim Strickland is a Vietnam era Army veteran and nationally recognized expert on VA disability benefits.
Jim writes extensively about VA and Social Security disability benefits.
Jim's Mailbag is a regular column featured at Stateside Legal where veterans, servicemembers, and family members can ask Jim their questions about VA and Social Security disability benefits.
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Hello...I'm Jim Strickland. That's me above, at my VA clinic in Savannah, Georgia. I publish the VAWatchdog. The other fellow above is Larry Scott. He founded the VAWatchdog in 2005. Larry passed away some years ago from a non-service connected illness.
Crown Memorial Centers - Larry Scott
About me: I was born in a Navy hospital, the son of a marine who went on to 20 years in his beloved USMC Old Corps and E-9 rank at age 36. I entered the Army from Florida in 1967 knowing Vietnam was my next stop. We can always depend on surprises from our military so I was trained as an operating room technician and sent to the 98th General Hospital in Germany where I served until June of 1970.
I used my 91D20 skills to open a career for myself in civilian health care. I retired in the early 2000s due to service connected conditions...old seemingly minor injuries sustained in a training event got much worse with age and I was forced to take the TDIU benefit and I left the work I enjoyed. Like so many vets out of work, I looked for things to do and met Larry Scott as he was developing the VAWatchdog Dot Org. Larry was a good friend and mentor and when he became terminally ill I promised I'd carry on the VAWatchdog Dot Org in his memory.
And here we are.
I hope you enjoy what you see here and that you find some value as you research the benefits you earned. Those benefits aren't charity and they aren't a handout...we earn those benefits and if obtaining them takes a bit more effort, so be it. We're here to help you along your journey.
Questions and comments are welcomed and always answered promptly. /s/ Jim <jim912@gmail.com>
Executive Director of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, 1990 - 2022
Founder and Director of StatesideLegal,
2010 - 2022
My grandfather served during WWI. He died at a VA hospital many years later.
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I was born in a Navy hospital. I grew up in the Old Corps.
My dad retired as an E-9 and never lost touch with his fellow Iwo Jima survivors.
I have walked on the shoulders of giants!
I was once a motorcyclist...I'm too old for that now, sold my last Harley to a cop 5 years ago.
I rode a lot with Patriot Guard Riders I'm proud to say.
That's my Honda CBX as we began the trek through Glacier in about 1979.
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Two Marines
My dad, USMC Master Gunny E-9 Retired - passed from Lejeune cancers, and USMC Sgt. Harry Masters, passed from AO NHL.
The photo was taken by me at the Beaufort, SC National Cemetery.
We went often to pay respects, particularly to
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Email Jim <jim912@gmail.com> and see how cost effective and easy it is to have your services offered to veterans world-wide.
Bureaucracy is failing Blue Water Vietnam veterans
Sarbacker’s VA application has been pending for almost three years.
If it goes much longer, he’ll have fought the VA longer than he fought the Vietnam War.
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38 CFR Book C, Schedule for Rating Disabilities tells you the standards you must meet to be awarded a % rating for
a given condition. Below we've selected
a few of the most frequently
needed sections of The Schedule
Section 1151 Claims
When something goes wrong and
the veteran suffers an injury or
death due to the negligence of
a federal employee, the veteran
or his/her spouse may pursue
claims under the
VETERANS AFFAIRS
Military Health
Did you see combat, enemy fire,
or casualties? Were you or a buddy wounded, injured or hospitalized?
Do you have a claim pending for illness or injury related to your military service?
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The reports of American decline
are greatly exaggerated
America is wealthy, influential, powerful,
and increasingly equal.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
VA DISABILITY COMPENSATION
A veteran is entitled to disability compensation if he or she were
(1) discharged or released from the military under conditions other than dishonorable,
(2) their disease or injury was incurred or aggravated in the line of duty, and
(3) the disease or injury was not the result of the their own willful misconduct
or abuse of drugs.
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