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Video Blog – Buddy Statements For Increased Rating
Matthew Hill: Hello and welcome to the Hill and Ponton VA Video Blog. I’m Matthew Hill here with Carol Ponton and today we are talking about buddy statements. This is the fourth part in our four-part series on buddy statements. The first one we discussed was how important they are. Carol Ponton: Yes. Matthew Hill: […]
What You Need to Know About Expediting a Claim
There are very certain circumstances that the VA will consider expediting a claim, and they are often confusing as each regional office can sometimes offer expedition for a claim that may fall outside of the parameters based on special circumstances. However, the basic rules for expediting a claim are laid out in the VA regulations […]
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND VA SERVICE CONNECTION ISSUES
If you are a veteran who has developed Multiple Sclerosis (MS) while still in service, you may not face difficulty with getting the disease service-connected for disability compensation purposes. However, for many veterans, Multiple Sclerosis develops a number of years after their release from the military. Also complicating the situation is that Multiple Sclerosis is […]
Video Blog – Appeals Council and Federal Court
Natalia Jofre: Hello and welcome to Hill & Ponton Social Security Disability Blog, I’m Natalia Jofre. I’m the director for our Social Security section. Shelly Mark: And I am Shelly Mark, I am the senior Social Security attorney. Natalia Jofre: So in our last blog we talked about when you get an unfavorable decision, what […]
RAMP: Supplemental Claim Lane; New and Relevant Evidence
In the summer of 2017, President Trump signed into law the Appeals Modernization Act establishing a new process for the VA in the way they handle benefit processing. The Act is designed to improve timeliness, provide more transparency, and be fairer in an effort to improve benefits for veterans. The Act is expected to go […]
Servicewomen Long-Term Mental Health
As of September 2017, there were approximately 19 million women veterans in the United States, Puerto Rico, and foreign U.S territories. Is the women’s long-term mental health impact of service the same as their male counterparts? Overwhelming studies have shown that it is not and despite the research VA mental health care providers are lagging […]
