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VBM - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Veterans Benefit Manual
An Advocates 1st Rule? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Do no harm
What document is required to represent a Veteran? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Power of
Attorney(POA)
Can there be more than one POA active at any given time? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No,
there cannot be more than one POA active at the same time
BVA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Board of Veterans Appeals
How many regional offices are there nationally? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔58
VA has a duel role when it comes to claims, those are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Be a
friend to the Veterans but also be a guardian of the tax payer
,How can a claimant reopen a case filed by the VA as "final?" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔By
presenting new and material evidence
What is new evidence? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Evidence that has not already been
submitted to the VA
What is material evidence? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Evidence that helps prove a
previously unproven fact
When can the VA deny a claim? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔If the weight of the evidence is
(more than half) against the claim
Duty to Assist - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔VA has the duty to assist claimants who submit a
reasonably possible claim in developing evidence to support their claims
What helps makes an advocates claim successful - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Present reasons
why the benefit should be granted and cite appropriate statues and regulations
using the VA's adjudication procedures manual (M21-1MR).
M21-1MR - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔VA's Adjudication Procedures Manual
What are the 3 elements of a disability compensation claim? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Veteran must currently suffer a disability or have suffered from disability since the
, claim was filed 2. Must be some incident in service that could have caused the
condition and 3. There must be some way of linking that current condition to that
incident.
3 Departments of the VA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Veterans Benefits Administration
(VBA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Central VA Office (VACO):
national Cemetery, General Counsel, Office of Inspector General.
DRO - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Decision Review Officer
What is a review "de novo" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A new and complete review without
giving any weight to the fact that the Regional Office(RO) personnel previously
denied the claim.
Are Veterans automatically entitled to VA healthcare? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No, VA
medical care is principally directed toward treating medical problems related to
Veteran's military service and toward helping some low income Veterans.
How many Priority Groups are there? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔8
Which statute governs Veterans Benefits - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Title 38 of the United
States Code (Title 38 U.S.C)
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