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Camp Lejeune Tainted Water Claim? New Rules You Can Use: Justice Delayed

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.”...
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Can a Veteran Living Outside the United States Receive Compensation Benefits?

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...
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Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC): The Basics

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...
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Military Records Lost: 1973 St. Louis Fire

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...
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VA Permanent and Total Service Connected Disability: What does it mean?

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%...
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VA Disability: Is it really “non-adversarial”?

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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