[7thengbn] FW: Forty Years Ago - Vietnam - PTSD Claims

[Mike Moran]

Passing this along to you. With the VA you and I have got to be prepared,
for the unexpected as well as the expected.

This is about the 100% PTSD veterans being reviewed for fraudulent claims.
My opinion is that it is just another way for them to reduce their cost.


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Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From: info at thevietnamfiles.com [mailto:info at thevietnamfiles.com]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:39 PM
To: mikemoranusmc at comcast.net
Subject: Forty Years Ago - Vietnam - PTSD Claims

FORTY YEARS AGO-VIETNAM
 We are departing from the monthly history format that you are so familiar
with. It is being reported that the V.A. is reinvestigating over 72,000
veterans disability claims for Vietnam service connected P.T.S.D. for claims
of possible fraud. In a recent article, Rick Rogers of the Union-Tribune
wrote the following about this recent V.A. effort.
“A government review of 72,000 post-traumatic stress disorder cases planned
for early next year is an excuse to cut benefits for older veterans and
toughen qualifications for future ones, veterans groups and other critics
contend. The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to examine cases from
1999 to 2004 in which 100 percent disability benefits were granted primarily
for combat stress. The process is expected to last about a year. In San
Diego County, about 2,000 veterans have qualified for the rating of total
disability caused mainly by combat stress. They each receive a monthly
tax-free payment of $2,299. It is not known how many of those cases will be
scrutinized.
The review seemed necessary after an audit of 2,100 such cases nationally
found that 25 percent of the VA-approved awards lacked adequate
documentation to prove eligibility, said department spokesman Phil Budahn.
He said Veterans Affairs has tightened oversight of its program this year by
requiring more proof.”
There is no reason for any Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran to LACK ADEQUATE
DOCUMENTATION TO PROVE ELIGIBILITY. We provide essential documentation for
V.A. claims online. All the V.A. requires is supporting documentation such
as unit command chronologies and after action reports to satisfy the V.A.
and validate an event or circumstance supporting service connection. DO NOT
WAIT TO RECEIVE A LETTER FROM THE V.A. THAT YOUR CASE HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR
REASSESSMENT.  Get your in country unit records now and be prepared to
confirm and document each and every event which supports your disability
rating and service connection. If a veteran with PTSD loses his or her valid
disability benefits, who will be there to help?  CONTACT THE V.A. DISABILITY
COMMISION NOW!
(202) 756-7729, 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004
Executive Director: Ray Wilburn (202) 756-2293 email: vetscommision at va.gov
<mailto:vetscommision at va.gov>
Write to your elected representatives and express your outrage at this
policy and demand an end to this practice. You or a brother Marine could be
next! Stand together, Semper Fi.
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