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Filing a Camp Lejeune Claim takes you through seven steps: proving 30 days at Camp Lejeune or MCAS New River, checking the eight presumptive conditions, filing VA Form 21-526EZ with evidence, and how the Justice Act and family tracks differ. Education only.
Filing a Gulf War and Undiagnosed Illness Claim takes you through eight steps: Intent to File, proving service in a listed place, documenting six months of symptoms, matching the right illness group, VA Form 21-526EZ, and the C&P exam. Education only.
Filing a PACT Act Toxic-Exposure Claim takes you through twelve steps: Intent to File, naming your exposure group, proving where you served, a current diagnosis, checking the presumptive list, and the right form, 21-526EZ or Supplemental Claim 20-0995. Education only.
Filing a Sinusitis or Rhinitis Claim takes you through seven steps: Intent to File, checking your service against the burn pit places and dates, documenting episodes the way VA counts them, rhinitis details, VA Form 21-526EZ, and the exam. Education only.
Three versions of the same buddy statement: weak, strong and harmful. Includes a two-page fillable handout your witness can complete, sign and hand back, plus a checklist to run before you submit.
Five review lanes, and two of them cannot see new evidence. Sorts supplemental claim, Higher-Level Review and the three Board dockets, with a fillable sorting worksheet and one-year deadline check.
A tie goes to the veteran, and an opinion with no reasoning weighs nothing. Explains benefit of the doubt and includes a page to hand your doctor about nexus opinions.
A death certificate answers only one DIC question. Explains contributory cause and the ten-year total rating route, with a fillable record worksheet for surviving families.
For a mental health C&P exam. Shows how a good morning can hide a hard year, and gives a two-week symptom log to fill in before the exam.
Why 50, 30 and 20 make 70, not 100. Walks through VA's combined ratings math, the bilateral factor and rounding mistakes, then gives a fillable worksheet to check your own decision letter.
With a presumption, the proof moves to your personnel file. Covers what you still have to establish, where to get your records, and a fillable service timeline worksheet.
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