Getting the VA PTSD rating you are entitled to can be a challenge in a VA disability claim. Why? Five Reasons it is a challenge to get the right VA PTSD rating. 1) Veterans facing the limitations of PTSD condition are already at their mental limits, meaning it is next...
In this post, I’m going to talk to you about one of the EASIEST ways to prove service connection – secondary service connection. Well, actually, it may not be the easiest….but it’s not the hardest, and it is most certainly the most...
Service-members get “the boot” from military service for bad conduct in service. Certain types of bad-conduct discharges can be a statutory or regulatory bar to VA Benefits for service-connected disabilities like PTSD. Is there a way to overcome a...
The Presumption of Nexus for Chronic Conditions is the “Darby Queen” of VA Claims. A lot of the time, Veterans filing VA claims want to jump right in and get to the “nexus” part of their claim – and in this post we will talk about a...
The dominoes of a VA claim tend to fall like this: You need to prove medical nexus between an in-service event and a current diagnosis. MOST times, you need a doctor to provide that proof through an Independent Medical Expert. It’s hard to find an...