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Filing a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Claim walks you through twelve steps: the Intent to File, your C-file, records of the head injury, diagnosis, residuals in three areas, a medical opinion, related conditions, the C&P exam, and the 21-526EZ. 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, ten and twenty years each protect something different. Explains rating reduction protections, the 30-day hearing and 60-day evidence windows, with a fillable rating inventory.
Migraine ratings never ask how much it hurts. They ask about prostrating attacks and how often they average. Includes a fillable attack log and the work evidence the 50 percent level needs.
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.
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.
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