All VA Regional Offices Training Letter 10-01

SUBJ: Adjudicating Claims Based on Service in the Gulf War and Southwest Asia

Click here to open the up a copy of the training letter that was sent out to the RO's and the C&P examiner in PDF formate.

Print out the letter and make sure it is a part of your claim and that all of your doctors get a copy of it.

Purpose
Compensation and Pension (C&P) Service is providing the following information and guidelines in order to promote regional office awareness, consistency, and fairness in the handling of disability claims from Veterans with service in Southwest Asia.

Gulf War Task Force Draft Written Report

Dear Contributor,

Thank you for commenting on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force draft report. Your insights, issues and ideas are not only important to VA but to every Veteran who served in the Gulf. VA is committed to improving its transparency and public engagement in finding innovative solutions to these long standing issues. We recognize that VA must actively engage our Veterans to ensure that misconceptions are addressed and that stakeholders and Veterans are empowered and thus part of the solution in ensuring that VA is the best it can be.

Colonel Gingrich came to the RAC meeting to update everyone on what the VA is doing.

This is the recording of the meeting.

We need every veteran calling their Senators. Without your help we may not get the funding. Please call and have your family and friends call too.

"In his letter requesting other U.S. Senators sign on to the "Dear Colleague" letter to Senate appropriations committee leaders and requesting $25 million in Fiscal Year 2013 Defense appropriations to adequately fund the program, Sanders notes, "over the past two years, three dramatic milestones have been achieved," the direct result of broad, bipartisan Congressional support for the program.  "

From:

Anthony Hardie

• Hi, Jim,
  
  Hope this finds you doing as well as possible.
  
  Anything you can do to help spread the word and generating action on this time-sensitive action alert would be extremely helpful.
  
  --Anthony
  
  **ACTION ALERT*** As you may have seen from early warnings, our February and March meetings in DC with Senators and staff were fully successful and the resulting effort has now been launched in the Senate -- led by Sen. Bernie Sanders -- to secure our funding for our GWI treatment program. We have only 9 days to convince as many Senators as possible to sign on to the Sanders Dear Colleague Letter -- the DEADLINE for Senators to sign on is ***Weds., Apr. 18.***
  
  Below is an article (feel free to share) with all the details, what to ask for, a link near the bottom to a spreadsheet with which Senators signed on in FY11 (and all 100 phone numbers), and links to lots of background documents for those who want to read more. Anyone who is willing and able to join in this effort can help a great deal by contacting both of your 2 U.S. Senators and requesting they sign on.
  
  For anyone in Vermont, calls to Sen. Sanders' office thanking him for his leadership on this would be appreciated, I'm sure.
  
  http://www.91outcomes.com/2012/04/push-for-gwi-treatment-research-funding.html

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  91outcomes.com: Veterans' Push for GWI Treatment Research Funding Spreads to U.S. Senate

  www.91outcomes.com