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VBM correct answers Veterans Benefit Manual
An Advocates 1st Rule? correct answers Do no harm
What document is required to represent a Veteran? correct answers Power of Attorney(POA)
Can there be more than one POA active at any given time? correct answers No, there cannot be
more than one POA active at the same time
BVA correct answers Board of Veterans Appeals
How many regional offices are there nationally? correct answers 58
VA has a duel role when it comes to claims, those are? correct answers 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?" correct answers By presenting new
and material evidence
What is new evidence? correct answers Evidence that has not already been submitted to the VA
What is material evidence? correct answers Evidence that helps prove a previously unproven fact
When can the VA deny a claim? correct answers If the weight of the evidence is (more than half)
against the claim
Duty to Assist correct answers 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 correct answers 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 correct answers VA's Adjudication Procedures Manual
What are the 3 elements of a disability compensation claim? correct answers 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 correct answers Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Veterans
Health Administration (VHA), Central VA Office (VACO): national Cemetery, General
Counsel, Office of Inspector General.
, DRO correct answers Decision Review Officer
What is a review "de novo" correct answers 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? correct answers 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? correct answers 8
Which statute governs Veterans Benefits correct answers Title 38 of the United States Code
(Title 38 U.S.C)
Which regulations are written by the VA and used to carry out the laws written by congress?
correct answers Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations (Title 38 C.F.R.)
How many and what are the types of discharges? correct answers 1. Honorable 2. General, Under
Honorable 3. Under other than Honorable(UOTH), undesirable 4. Bad conduct 5. Dishonorable
Name the 2 entities Veterans may utilize to request a discharge upgrade correct answers
Discharge Review Board (DRB) & Board for the Correction of Military Records (BCRM)
Willful Misconduct correct answers Deliberate or intentional wrongdoing with knowledge of or
wanton disregard of its probable consequences.
As of 9/8/1990 what is the length-of-service requirement? correct answers A Veteran must have
completed a minimum period of service either 24 months of continuous active duty or full period
for which the Veteran was called or ordered to active duty.
Family Members Eligibility correct answers Usually family members are not entitled to receive
benefits in their own right if the Veteran is alive. If the Veteran is deceased, some surviving
family members of the Veteran may be entitled to certain VA death benefits.
What benefits might surviving family members be eligible for? correct answers CHAMPVA,
burial benefits, VA home loan guaranty, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) or
non-service connected death pension.
Service Connected Disability Compensation correct answers A monthly disability compensation
awarded to a Veteran who suffers from a disabling condition that was incurred in or aggravated
by service.
Non-Service Connected Disability Pension correct answers Must; Demonstrate financial need, be
totally and permanently disabled, served at least 90 consecutive days of active duty at least one
of those days during a period of war or at least one day of wartime service that resulted in a
VBM correct answers Veterans Benefit Manual
An Advocates 1st Rule? correct answers Do no harm
What document is required to represent a Veteran? correct answers Power of Attorney(POA)
Can there be more than one POA active at any given time? correct answers No, there cannot be
more than one POA active at the same time
BVA correct answers Board of Veterans Appeals
How many regional offices are there nationally? correct answers 58
VA has a duel role when it comes to claims, those are? correct answers 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?" correct answers By presenting new
and material evidence
What is new evidence? correct answers Evidence that has not already been submitted to the VA
What is material evidence? correct answers Evidence that helps prove a previously unproven fact
When can the VA deny a claim? correct answers If the weight of the evidence is (more than half)
against the claim
Duty to Assist correct answers 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 correct answers 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 correct answers VA's Adjudication Procedures Manual
What are the 3 elements of a disability compensation claim? correct answers 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 correct answers Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Veterans
Health Administration (VHA), Central VA Office (VACO): national Cemetery, General
Counsel, Office of Inspector General.
, DRO correct answers Decision Review Officer
What is a review "de novo" correct answers 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? correct answers 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? correct answers 8
Which statute governs Veterans Benefits correct answers Title 38 of the United States Code
(Title 38 U.S.C)
Which regulations are written by the VA and used to carry out the laws written by congress?
correct answers Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations (Title 38 C.F.R.)
How many and what are the types of discharges? correct answers 1. Honorable 2. General, Under
Honorable 3. Under other than Honorable(UOTH), undesirable 4. Bad conduct 5. Dishonorable
Name the 2 entities Veterans may utilize to request a discharge upgrade correct answers
Discharge Review Board (DRB) & Board for the Correction of Military Records (BCRM)
Willful Misconduct correct answers Deliberate or intentional wrongdoing with knowledge of or
wanton disregard of its probable consequences.
As of 9/8/1990 what is the length-of-service requirement? correct answers A Veteran must have
completed a minimum period of service either 24 months of continuous active duty or full period
for which the Veteran was called or ordered to active duty.
Family Members Eligibility correct answers Usually family members are not entitled to receive
benefits in their own right if the Veteran is alive. If the Veteran is deceased, some surviving
family members of the Veteran may be entitled to certain VA death benefits.
What benefits might surviving family members be eligible for? correct answers CHAMPVA,
burial benefits, VA home loan guaranty, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) or
non-service connected death pension.
Service Connected Disability Compensation correct answers A monthly disability compensation
awarded to a Veteran who suffers from a disabling condition that was incurred in or aggravated
by service.
Non-Service Connected Disability Pension correct answers Must; Demonstrate financial need, be
totally and permanently disabled, served at least 90 consecutive days of active duty at least one
of those days during a period of war or at least one day of wartime service that resulted in a
