Intelligent, Aggressive Representation For The Injured And Disabled
According to a September 2013 Kiplinger Washington Editors survey of 1,000 veterans between the ages of 50 and 70, 7 out of 10 veterans did not know, or underestimated, the impact of filing for Social Security Disability benefits prior to the age of 70. Currently,...
Effective October 1, 2013, the Federal Government was 'shutdown', but what does the shutdown mean for those with disability claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs? In anticipation of the shutdown, the government provided some insight for those depending on...
The Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) has recently reversed course and awarded benefits to an Air Force veteran that piloted an airplane carrying the toxic defoliant, Agent Orange. The pilot, Paul Bailey, was awarded full benefits for his service during and after...
Veterans that served along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Korea during the Vietnam War may have an easier time establishing a Veterans Disability Claim. In similar 'Agent Orange' cases, Veterans are presumed to have been exposed to the chemical during certain,...
Many of our veterans are coming home with traumatic brain injuries. Our friends and neighbors in our local area of Mobile, Alabama, probably know a veteran who has been injured in this capacity.The Department of Veteran's Affairds ("VA") has announced that it proposes...
A number of our veterans live in the Mobile, Alabama and Florida panhandle (e.g., Pensacola, Milton, Crestview, Ft. Walton, Destin, Panama City, Tallahassee) areas. In our practice, we have helped numbers of those veterans increase their Veterans Administration ("VA")...
In order to receive Veteran’s benefits, the veteran must show that his disability is service connected. To do so, it must be shown that the condition 1.) occurred or was aggravated while in service; 2.) there is a current disability; and 3.) a nexus between the two...
An inexcusable number of veterans die while waiting for benefits. This articletalks about why that number is skyrocketing.
The requirements for VA Pension are: the veteran must be discharged under other than dishonorable conditions; have active service that includes a total of ninety days during one or more periods of war, ninety or more consecutive days, one day of which is during a...
On October 16, 2012 VA issues a final rule in the Federal Register extending the statutory period during which undiagnosed illnesses and multi-symptom disorders most often associated with service in the Gulf (i.e. Gulf War Illness or Gulf War Syndrome) will be...