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Veterans Guide to VA Claim Filing

• 1. What's a VA Claim?
  • 1.1. Elements of a Claim
  • 1.2. Informal Claims
  • 1.3. Inferred Claims
• 2. Obtaining a Decision
  • 2.1. Obtaining a Decision
• 3. VA Award Processing
  • 3.1. Rating
  • 3.2. Combined Ratings
  • 3.3. Anti-Pyramiding
  • 3.4. Extra-Schedular Rating
  • 3.5. Staged Ratings
  • 3.6. Effective Date
• 4. Benefit Payments
  • 4.1. Benefit Payments
• 5. Retroactive Benefits
  • 5.1. Retroactive Benefits
  • 5.2. Accrued Benefits
  • 5.3. Substitution
• 6. Disagreeing with a VA Decision
  • 6.1. Notice of Disagreement (NOD)
  • 6.2. Finality and Revision of Decisions
• 7. Choosing an Appeal Path
  • 7.1. What Now?
• 8. Perfecting an Appeal
  • 8.1. Substantive Appeals
• 9. Board of Veterans Appeals
  • 9.1. The Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA)
  • 9.2. Reasonably Raised Issues
  • 9.3. Reasons and Bases of BVA Determinations
  • 9.4. Independent Medical Examinations
  • 9.5. Consideration of All Evidence
  • 9.6. Board Hearings
  • 9.7. Credibility
• 10. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC)
  • 10.1. Remand versus Reversal
  • 10.2. The Court
  • 10.3. Remand Compliance
• 11. Further Appeals
  • 11.1. Further Appeals
• 12. Increasing, Reducing and Severing Disability Ratings
  • 12.1. Increasing VA Ratings
  • 12.2. Reopening Disallowed Claims
  • 12.3. Rating Reductions
  • 12.4. Severed Ratings

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