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What is a new disability claim?
A claim for service connection for a disability that has not been filed before.
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What is VA Form 21-526EZ?
Application for Disability Compensation and Related Compensation Benefits
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What is a Veteran Service Representative?
Explains benefit programs and entitlement criteria, conducts interviews, identifies issues, gathers relevant evidence, adjudicates claims, and inputs data necessary to generate the award and notification letter to the Veteran describing the decision and t
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What is Disability Compensation?
A tax-free monetary benefit paid to Veterans with disabilities that are the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active military service.
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What is Challenge Training?
Provides VBA employees with standardized training designed and tested to process claims more efficiently every day.
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What is a claim for increased disability?
A claim for an increased evaluation of a disability that VA has already determined to be service connected.
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What is VA Form 21-4142?
Authorization and Consent to Release Information to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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What is a Rating Veteran Service Representative?
Serves as decision makers for claims involving rating decisions.
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What is Veterans’ pension?
Tax-free monetary benefit payable to low-income wartime Veterans.
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What are Segmented Lanes?
Allow VBA to assign claims to one of three lanes for processing based on their nature.
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What is a secondary disability claim?
A claim for a disability that developed as a result of or was worsened by a disability which VA has already determined to be service-connected.
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What is VA Form 21-0781?
Statement in Support of Claim for Service Connection for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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What is a Claims Assistant?
The initial reviewer for compensation and pension claims.
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What are claims based on Special Circumstances?
VA disability compensation programs to include individual unemployability, automobile allowance, clothing allowance, prestabilization, hospitalization, convalescence, dental, and birth defects.
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What is Disability Benefits Questionnaire?
Simplify the disability compensation exam process and make it easier for Veterans to submit medical evidence for their claim.
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What is a reopened disability claim?
A claim already filed that VA could not grant and the decision is over one year old.
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What is VA Form 21-8940?
Veteran's Application for Increased Compensation Based on Unemployability
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What is attorney fee coordinator?
An expert on fee matters and is responsible for overseeing all attorney fee cases.
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What is Special Monthly Compensation?
Additional tax-free benefit that can be paid to Veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses and parents, A higher rate of compensation paid due to special circumstances such as the need of aid and attendance by another person or by specific disability, su
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What is Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS)?
A new digital claims processing system in which VBA is scanning hundreds of paper documents at a time, digitizing and securely storing the records, and moving VA away from paper and toward a digital environment.
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What is the Fully Developed Claim (FDC) program?
Veterans submit all relevant records in their possession, and those records which are easily obtainable, such as private medical records, at the time they make their claim and certify they have no further evidence to submit.
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What is VA Form 21-4192?
Request for Employment Information in Connection with Claim for Disability Benefits
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What is a Decision Review Officer?
A senior technical expert who is responsible for holding post-decisional hearings and processing appeals.
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What is Dependency and Indemnity Compensation?
DIC is a tax-free monetary benefit generally payable to a surviving spouse, child, or parent of Servicemembers who died while on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training, or to survivors of Veterans who died from their service-conn
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What is Quality Review Team?
Identifies common claims issues and give staff feedback and additional training if needed.
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