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Filing a Claim for Common Secondary Conditions walks you through eight steps: list your service-connected conditions, spot likely secondaries, get diagnoses and medical opinions, sort caused by from made worse, file VA Form 21-526EZ naming each primary, and confirm receipt. Education only.
Filing a Diabetes (Type 2) Claim takes you through seven steps: Intent to File, checking the Agent Orange and one-year paths, documenting how your diabetes is managed, listing every complication, the medical link, VA Form 21-526EZ, and the exam. Education only.
Filing a GERD Claim takes you through seven steps: Intent to File, a current diagnosis with any endoscopy or swallow study, choosing direct, secondary, or aggravation, the medical link, VA Form 21-526EZ, and describing swallowing problems at the exam. Education only.
Filing a Hypertension Claim takes you through eight steps: Intent to File, gathering readings from at least three different days, choosing direct, secondary, or Agent Orange, lining up the medical link, completing VA Form 21-526EZ, and the C&P exam. Education only.
Filing a Secondary Service-Connection Claim takes you through twelve steps: confirm the service-connected primary, find candidates, file one Intent to File, gather evidence and a medical opinion, complete VA Form 21-526EZ naming each primary, and track the claim. Education only.
Filing an Erectile Dysfunction Claim takes you through six steps: Intent to File, naming the service-connected cause, getting the record and medical link, asking for special monthly compensation for loss of use by name, VA Form 21-526EZ, and the exam. Education only.
Filing an IBS Claim takes you through seven steps: Intent to File, choosing the Gulf War, secondary, or direct path, logging pain days and bowel changes the way VA counts them, matching your evidence, VA Form 21-526EZ, and the exam. Education only.
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