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What do I offer you that my competition does not?
What do I offer you that the competition does not? It’s a question easily answered in many situations and it’s something you need to think…
How to Get the Best Representation for Your Veterans Disability Claim
Is your representative an attorney? This seems to be a silly question but often those who we meet with either do not know or mistakenly…
Agent Orange Claims
If you are a veteran who served in Vietnam or near the Korean Demilitarized Zone during Vietnam and you suffer from the following: Ischemic Heart…
Camp Lejeune Tainted Water Claim? New Rules You Can Use: Justice Delayed
By David Magann
For decades there has been medical complications statistically abnormal for those who were based in Camp Lejeune. Recently there has been considerable media and Congressional attention to the past contamination of the water supply at Camp Lejeune. From 1953 to 1987, the water supply was contaminated with TCE, PCE, benzene, vinyl chloride and “other compounds.”...
Read More Can a Veteran Living Outside the United States Receive Compensation Benefits?
By David Magann
Veterans living abroad are entitled to a full range of benefits including Compensation or disability benefits. The VA resources available, of course, may be limited in some instances due to geography when in person medical needs are required, but payments for Compensation or disability payments are easily available. For information regarding available VA benefits for...
Read More Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC): The Basics
By David Magann
Spouses, children, and parents of Servicemembers and Veterans who are deceased or totally and permanently disabled by a service-connected disability may be eligible for VA dependent and survivor benefits, i.e., DIC compensation. These benefits can also include pension, health care, education, home loans, and burial. Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) is a tax free monetary...
Read More Military Records Lost: 1973 St. Louis Fire
By David Magann
Often we see clients who have had military records lost and sometimes those records are attributable to the fire in St. Louis, but more often or not, the records do still exist and need to be requested from another location. The following may clear up what was lost in the great fire and what form...
Read More VA Permanent and Total Service Connected Disability: What does it mean?
By David Magann
Under 38 USCS Section 110 states: “A total rating of 100% (or other permanant rating) that has been in continous force for twenty years shall not be reduced.” Until then you are subject to whatever exams for rating purposes the VA desire. However, barring no reduction, permanent and total service connected disability is a 100%...
Read More VA Disability: Is it really “non-adversarial”?
By David Magann
Those new to the VA claims process may come to believe that the VA is “pro claimant” or will, without a doubt, provide every possible assistance to support your disability claim. This belief is a dangerous pitfall based upon Congressional mandates and case law which is often ignored by a bureaucracy that is understaffed, undertrained,...
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