Supplemental Claim: Submit new and relevant evidence that wasn't included in your original claim. This gives the VA another opportunity to reevaluate your case. Higher-Level Review: Request a senior VA adjudicator to review your claim without submitting new evidence.
Crying during a C&P exam is not inherently harmful to your claim; in fact, it could be helpful and serve as valuable evidence of the severity of your emotional or psychological condition.
Generally, veterans will attend a Compensation & Pension (C&P) examination and the examiner will use a goniometer to measure how far they can bend forward, backward, and side to side. VA will use these range of motion measurements to determine the severity of a veteran's back condition.
Top 20 VA Disability Claims Tinnitus. Limitation of Flexion, Knee. Hearing Loss. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Lumbosacral or Cervical Strain. Sciatic Nerve Paralysis. Scarring. Limitation of Motion, Ankle.
Insufficient Nexus Connection: If your nexus letter lacks detailed medical rationale or fails to connect your condition to your military service, the VA may reject the claim. Contradictory Evidence: Conflicting opinions from VA examiners or other medical sources can weaken the validity of your nexus letter.
Types of VA Favorable Findings: Favorable findings can include establishment of a current disability, in-service occurrence or aggravation, nexus between military service and current disability, verification of a valid stressor event for PTSD, and more.
Tinnitus, mental health conditions, musculoskeletal disorders, scars, and presumptive disorders are frequently approved VA disability claims.
This letter will also include a section with dependency. Information if that applies in a sectionMoreThis letter will also include a section with dependency. Information if that applies in a section listing out all of the evidence that VA looked at when making their decision.