If you’re waiting for your Social Security Disability hearing, you don’t want to perform what Social Security defines as substantial gainful activity. And that amount actually changes year to year, just like cost of living adjustments, etc. They will change, for this year it’s about $1,180.00 gross.
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no comments A TBI is just short for traumatic brain injury. And essentially what that means is there is any kind of action or reaction or anything that basically impacts the head or the brain whether it be the force of blast or potentially a gunshot or just different types of shrapnel fragments, different things like that.
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no comments Just like an adult there’s a wide variety of things that children can have that can qualify them for benefits. There could be certain learning disabilities, intellectual disorders, or physical disorders.
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no comments Agent Orange is basically a slang term for any kind of herbicides used during the Vietnam War to kill dense jungle vegetation.
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no comments Technically speaking, you can call an attorney at any time. But as far as the VA goes, an attorney can’t be engaged, or you can’t have a contract with a veteran, to help them with a disability claim until they receive their initial rating decision.
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no comments A consultative examination is basically when Social Security schedules a claimant, somebody applying for disability, schedules them a doctor’s appointment. They either do it because they don’t think that they have enough evidence in order to make a disability determination, or they want just some kind of clarification of the evidence that they already have.
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no comments Without having doctor’s visits or hospital visits, there’s no documentation so there’s no way to prove that somebody is disabled. Getting medical treatment is the most important thing in applying for disability.
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no comments The higher your total percentage is, the harder it is to get an increase if you get another grant. What unemployability does is, if you were at 60% for one particular condition or 70% for multiple, one of which, with some different variations, is at 40%, you can apply for unemployability, and at that point, they can grant you 100% payment even if you’re not, technically, at 100%.
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no comments Every veteran who has a service connected disability will have either a specific rating for that one disability, which would also be his total rating, or if they have multiple, they would have individual ratings for each condition and then a total rating.
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no comments In a veterans disability claim, lay evidence is basically any evidence and all evidence that is not medical. If you have a statement from the veteran, a statement from his family members, friends, people that they served with, any statement regarding the veteran’s condition or things that happened in the past, anyone who’s not a medical professional but would have personal knowledge regarding the veteran’s either current condition or in service injury, things like that. It’d be any kind of non-medical expert that can provide some kind of information that’s pertinent to the claim.
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no comments Workers’ compensation is a compromise between the employer and the employee where the employee, if they get hurt at work, will get medical treatment right away. In exchange for that, the employee cannot sue the employer for negligence.
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no comments So, now when you do want to appeal, you’ll still file a notice of disagreement, but what you’ll do is file it directly with the board of veteran’s appeals, and then at that point, there are three different tracks that you can choose based on what your case looks like, what kind of evidence you have, what the issues are and appeal.
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no comments SSI is supplemental security income. SSDI is social security disability insurance.
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no comments Non-service connected pension is a needs based program and may apply if you’re totally and permanently disabled. It doesn’t have to be for a service connected injury or disease.
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no comments Service connected conditions receive a compensation rating. For each particular condition there’s a diagnostic criteria, a percentage and specific symptoms.
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no comments There are two basic types of service connections. There’s direct service connection and there’s secondary service connection.
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no comments A Nexus Medical Opinion essentially establishes a relationship between something that happened in the service and a current disability.
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no comments “I don’t think that it’s any secret that the VA suffers from an incredible backlog of cases. They take an enormous amount of time to get any decision back to veterans, no matter what stage of the process they’re in.”
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no comments The Social Security process is a long process and it can be time-consuming. The sooner you get filed, the sooner you get the ball rolling, hopefully the sooner you’ll get benefits.
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no comments A Compensation and Pension Exam is an examination that’s set up by the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with a claim for disability benefits that’s been put in by a veteran.
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no comments It is possible to handle your auto accident claim without the help of an auto accident lawyer, but it will probably be much more difficult.
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no comments A VA rating increase is for someone who already has a service connected disability.
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no comments If you are a veteran who has received Social Security Administration Disability benefits, you should submit that disability award to the VA for consideration on your claim for VA benefits.
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