Found a list of extremely helpful websites on vawatchdog.org, probably been posted but it's worth posting again. I'm just posting the three I liked, check the bottom link to see ALL of the treasures.


Disability Examination Worksheets : http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/exams/index.htm These are the worksheets they use in the exams, as the title says, gives you a good idea of what all the different sections in the specific exams are for.

Disability Claims Process : http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/M21_1MR.html This one is intimidating but it's good to check out if you have any questions on what gameplan THEY are on, lol.

Monday Morning Workload Reports : http://www.vba.va.gov/reports/mmwr/ This one is good too, you can see how many claims your specific VA office has pending every monday (Excel)


This is the page with all of the links: http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfapr09/nf041309-1.htm

http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/bookc.html

this is on the VA website which gives you the criteria for different types of claims. It seems confusing at first but answers a lot of questions. These are all Microsfot word docs, which is good cuz you can save them for the future. I suggest save each for each of your service connected injuries. This is good for 2 reasons. First, it lets you know what they are looking for for each criteria. @ndly, if there is confusion you can show them what you were looking at.

Hope this helps

There's another little known but good one at http://bluewaternavy.org/vsotoolboxlinks2.htm , the VSO Toolbox