Va Tdiu Letter

With this benefit you may be able to get disability compensation or benefits at the same level as a Veteran who has a 100 disability rating.

Va tdiu letter. I was just denied TDIU for anxiety and depression that I am rated at 70. This was also included in the package. While more advanced cases may require an expert medical opinion from a doctor who has experience in dealing with the VA sometimes for less complicated claims a correctly worded letter from your doctor may be what pushes your claim over the finish line. A letter from your doctor to the VA in support of your claim can do wonders.

My new Tricare DR will not provide a letter for TDIU. FREDMA1RET wroteRated 90 SC trying to apply for IU. On my regular monthly appointment at the VA i told my phychiatrist that I had applied and got. She says she does not in anyway provide anything to anyone for any type of disability claims VA or otherwise.

I put see attached statement in that box. That letter stated I could be up for a review never was a exam scheduled. The VA recently began sending out letters to veterans in receipt of a total disability rating 100 percent based on individual unemployability IU that detail the departments new process for verification of employment status. The letters include some confusing language that the VA is working to clear up.

Im applying for 70 TDIU. Total Disability Based on Individual Unemployability TDIU is a VA benefit that allows veterans to receive benefits at the 100 rate if their service-connected disabilities prevent them from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment. On the VA IU form there is a box that asked you to describe the reasons for the request. I have stopped getting the work forms 15 years ago the only letter I received was back in 2011.

The letter said that the cp doctor did not say that I am not able to work but do have symptoms to continue my 70 rating. Total Disability - Individual Unemployabilty TDIU or simply IU is widely misunderstood. Please read the information you find below then return here to click this link and read a recent VA Training Letter updating the subject. The TDIU training letter lists 3 situations where a claim can be made for TDIU only one of which includes the filing of the VA Form 21-8940.

Your VA Rating Decision letter will inform you of whether or not the VA considers your impairments service-connected. Make sure all your impairments are listed on the Rating Decision. The VA will decide if your impairments are service-connected. The VA should have considered your secondary service-connected disabilities as well.

Individual Unemployability is a part of VAs disability compensation program that allows VA to pay certain Veterans disability compensation at the 100 rate even though VA has not rated their service-connected disabilities at the total level. Our purpose in issuing this training letter is to revise and clarify our policies and procedures concerning the adjudication of TDIU decisions in order to restore the original intention of the TDIU evaluation accurately timely and adequately compensating our Veterans who are unable to be gainfully employed due to service-connected disabilities. I have had my TDIU now for Twenty years. I thought after this long it becomes a protected from reduction.

Find out how to file for VA Individual Unemployability compensation if youre an unemployed Veteran who cant work due to a service-connected disability. The rules the adjudicator should follow from the M21-1MR are here. This is close to the letter that my physician submitted with my IU package.