VA form 21-526: Pain and Problems

This is a long one because before I was just trying to inform, now I am trying to help. I find all my problems are with VA Form 21-526. And I discussed the impasse I have encountered and the best bypass and my decisions may help someone with the same problems, I truly hope, it will give some aid in your efforts to apply for your VA benefits. I was raised with my first cousin that seemed like my brother: almost everyone though we were brothers. And we had a meeting at his house: We got in a discussing about veterans benefits, why, because in the group or many first cousins and their offsprings we have many veterans, both male and females. In fact the highest ranking in the group is a female. She either became a General or was bought-out or whatever you call it when they (the military) offer you money to leave the service and retire. Then we added in the mix his wife’s relatives that have received a discharge from the arm services. And that gave us a good discussion about the rights of a veteran once discharged from the military.

Everyone maintained that we have a right to the benefits as long as we qualify for them or become qualified for them in the course of living our life as veterans. One thing we are all convinced about is you must stay on the VA or Veteran administrations’ case or you will probably not receive any benefits. My cousin, I will call her Gene said that her Brother aids veterans in their efforts to obtain benefits from the VA. The VA once threatened to throw him out of the office for pressing the veteran’s case with demands. And he says, You cannot let up and you should never give up until the highs office review your claim and denier you benefit. And if you are qualified for a pension make sure you apply for compensation, sure they will not pay you both, but they will pay you the highs. I can assure you the VA is not going to check to determine if you are eligible. Even after your claim is denied, you can request to have your claim reopened if you find new information that is compelling. In my personnel case (ongoing) I waited fifty-four years before my Army medical records were found and the case is reopened.

To get your claim or claims to the VA, it seems you start with VA Form 21-526, and in my opinion this is the form that contributes to the delay because some information required on the form is difficult or impossible to find. Example: do you know the place your wife married her second husband, if you are the third, and where was your adopted son born, and the list goes without end it seems? With the instructions they send you can complete the form, the headaches come when you get it in the hand of the VA, it is at this point things start to go wrong. My claim went to the Regional office in Cleveland OH, while in process the VA setup the Tiger Team, also located in Cleveland, OH. The Tiger Team was started to benefits old men like me by speeding up the process and decrease the length of time it takes to get a veteran his benefits. While many felt, the Tiger Team did its job the process slow to a snail’s pace once in the hand of other departments. So in reality not much is accomplished. My major problem is with the medical part of VA Form 21-526, the part you complete and the VA mail it with your request for your medical records from your doctors, hospitals and clinical. You should ask the doctor, hospital or clinical for the treatment that occurred on a date, month and year and what she or he treated you for and the number of times you saw them for that ailment. I tell you to do what I did, yet in two cases I got no result after calling the hospital three or four-time telling them not to send medical records about one stay in the hospital, but the other record is surely needed. The hospital sent the wrong records and the private company sent nothing of value to my case. That is according to the Rating Board. My private doctors did not receive any requests for information because the VA at the Cleveland office transferred the claim to the Tiger Team and the two failed to communicate so no one sends the requests to my private doctors. I am in Ohio to walk them through myself. This time I assure you they will be in the report.

Me the veterans have not seen any of this information, I am going by the report from the Rating Board. The doctors that are examining me told me, “we are not going to get a lot of your medical records unless you get them yourself.” They also told me that the “VA starts these groups, like the Tiger Team, and they work well at first but as soon as the information gets back in the main stream it gets delayed or not forwarded at all”. Now for those attempting to guess which group of doctors made the above statements, you can stop guessing because it is not that group, it is the other group. The power is in my hand I can’t keep you from guessing but I can keep you from knowing! I have been examined in three different hospitals and one clinic, and in two states and four cities. Medical service? I give the VA an A, as far as patient care is concern. For processing claims for benefits and compensation I will grade them, C-, only because some claims are approved with the help of the VSOs or Veterans Service Organizations. Some say without these organizations many more veterans would be suffering and in deep despair! Personally, I become very much concern when my earned rights and benefits are delayed for no apparent reason and the government will learn that I quickly mimic the Apostle Paul, in that I demand to see the President of these United States. Thereby making myself seems to be a bigger fool than I am known to be. But people that know me quickly inform them that I laugh and joke, but I do not play. I will beg you with tears in my eyes, but I will have rock in my Jaws. Before I enrolled in the VA Medical Center, my private insurance was two third of my monthly social security check. And increasing annually, yet paid only 15 percent or less, of my medical bills. With insurance and dental bills which the VA will not pay, my medical bills increased. Once I get the things I plan to sell on my e-store site I should be able to retire my debt or this effort get the result I need, and I am rated as a disabled veteran and can pursue a contract via the federal government, I will be back-in-the-saddle again. We have the company now we need the contract. At this pace, we will qualify as a veteran owned company and get a contract by been in business for two years.
Here are things I am willing to fight for, one. A veteran should know what benefits she of he can receive, the day they receive a Discharge. 2. The veteran should be asked to upgrade that information every two years. 3. To insure dignity, after age 75 a veteran should receive a pension regardless of income below $30 thousand per year.

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