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Got an email return that the VA could not find my requested information and to contact them.  When I called the 1 (800) Peggy number they told me that the VA made a decision and if I disagreed, I have to file a new claim.  Speaking with Peggy, I found out that they lost my application so they decided to not only ignore my claim but to close it out because they could not find the application that I uploaded in the VA system.  Now I have to wait an additional ten days to find out what they actually did and why they ignored my evidence. Who said the VA is getting better. 

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Remember, the VA can not read. 

Your post supports my decision to have a hearing regards my Separation Pay recoupment.  

The VA regulation says if you got Sep before '96 its a certain amount and after '96 its a different amount.  I got the correct amount, post '96, but the VA now says I owe the pre-96 amount.

I know, too simple, and I sent them the US Code, DFAS regulation and their own VA reg.

So, off to the hearing I go on the 17th, to show them their own regulations.

And I will take the US Code, DFAS regulation and the VA regulation with me, and with copies to give to them.

I have already submitted them into my claim, but like you,

I can't count on the VA to read them,

Hamslice

 

 

 

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Sorry, just venting. I know the evidence is there and not lost. I been through this a few years ago when the VA told me, they lost my claim and then all of a sudden when I submitted a new claim but change the language of it, the VA found the claim that was a little confusing and of course denied my claim. It is part of their tactics and part of their game. As stated before, being a former VA employee and having a little knowledge of their tactics it still is beyond me that once a veteran submits his/her claim and gives the VA everything they ask for, it goes south for some reason and the veteran has to dumb down everything to get the VA to do their job.

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@pacmanx1 That kind of decision makes me shake my head like I have done so many times in the past. Reminds me of "Friday filing". If they want to go home, they just intentionally misfile or state they cannot find what you know is there, just so they can go home on time. Of course, because everything occurs behind the magic veil, we cannot prove it. The VA's answer is to just send you to the end of the line so we can wait again. Makes me really miss the days when you could submit a request for reconsideration and it goes back for them to do it right without waiting months all over again.

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Thats why I liked the old Ebenefits site. The documents you upload there are immediately viewable so they could not say they did not get them. 

The new VA.gov site does not do that. The old documents you uploaded are not accessible, nor do they show in active claims (that I have seen).

We lost important functionality with the "new" website. 

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On 8/3/2021 at 9:47 AM, Hamslice said:

Remember, the VA can not read. 

Your post supports my decision to have a hearing regards my Separation Pay recoupment.  

The VA regulation says if you got Sep before '96 its a certain amount and after '96 its a different amount.  I got the correct amount, post '96, but the VA now says I owe the pre-96 amount.

I know, too simple, and I sent them the US Code, DFAS regulation and their own VA reg.

So, off to the hearing I go on the 17th, to show them their own regulations.

And I will take the US Code, DFAS regulation and the VA regulation with me, and with copies to give to them.

I have already submitted them into my claim, but like you,

I can't count on the VA to read them,

Hamslice

Hey Hamslice, had to go through my CD C-File to look and find where the VA changed my recoupment pay for the after taxes amount. It is called a "SEPARATION PAY WORKSHEET". It is a DFAS-IN FORM 27-190-R dated Jul 91. I used ADOBE to search for recoupment and it found where the VA made the adjustments in my VA file and changed my amount to repay.

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