by Joel Ban | Jan 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Effective August 5, 2021, the VA amended its adjudication regulations, adding three respiratory conditions—chronic asthma, rhinitis, and sinusitis (including rhinosinusitis)—to a list of presumptive conditions. The VA has long known about hazardous particulate matter...
by Joel Ban | Jan 4, 2022 | Uncategorized, Veterans Law, Veterans News
We are providing a number of useful updates from the VA’s Board of Veterans Appeals “metrics” website that we will explain and link to below. The BVA is considered the first substantive appeal step where veterans law judges and staff sometimes will formally hear...
by Joel Ban | Sep 9, 2021 | Uncategorized, Veterans Law
VA dental care is a service that is not provided to the vast majority of veterans including veterans that are of low income. An overview of the VA dental program and different classes of care is here. This is in contrast with conventional VA medical care or mental...
by Joel Ban | Apr 1, 2018 | Social Security Disability
eeSome people who apply for disability may feel that the disability work history report is a straight forward task. Unfortunately, there are a variety of traps that need to be explained. I will attempt to do so in this article so that Social Security understands...
by Joel Ban | Mar 10, 2018 | Veterans Law
Problems with the new VA appeals system are multi faceted, but many have complained about slow processing. A new system, expected to start in February 2019 could address these concerns. It is called the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act. Obviously,...
by Joel Ban | Jan 3, 2018 | Veterans Law
By now many veterans have received notice concerning reduction of appeal waiting times. The program has now started where veterans can “opt in” to the new VA RAMP program. However, some veterans may chose to stay in the older “legacy” appeal...
by Joel Ban | Dec 7, 2017 | Veterans Law
What is Lay Evidence? Lay evidence is any evidence written from a non-expert or non-medical professional that offers observational or a layperson’s perspective on any necessary fact that can substantiate a claim for VA compensation. More simply stated, any...
by Joel Ban | Dec 6, 2017 | Veterans Law
Waiting times VA compensation are described below. Veterans may experience long waiting times before they receive those benefits. What Should I do first? Before you file a claim, its often helpful to obtain copies of your medical and service records, but this is not...
by Joel Ban | Jul 27, 2017 | Social Security Disability
Expensive medical records is an understandable frustration of many disability applicants. This is despite the fact that most of these records are kept electronically. They should be very easy to transfer to the patient. Solutions exist under the HITECH Act. What is...
by Joel Ban | Apr 12, 2017 | Social Security Disability
A huge source of confusion among Veterans is how individual disability ratings are combined to produce their overall rating. When a Veteran has two or more service-connected disabilities, their overall disability percentage is determined by using a special table to...
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