Why is the Board of Veterans' Appeals mailing my decision to my regional office?

Dear Jim,

 

Just saw on e- benefits my BVA appeal in Washington has made a decision on my claim and are mailing to the following---me ,my rep,and back down to RO.

Why back to RO,from what I have read this means I possibly won after all these years?

Any opinions on this.

 

Reply:

 

When BVA sends a claim back to the RO it's often called a "remand".

There are any number of reasons that BVA could remand your claim back to the RO. The usual reason is that you won service connection that had been denied and now the RO has to determine a rating %. The BVA can determine service connection but they can't assign a rating %. The RO would then schedule you for another C & P to determine the rating.

 

BVA may have determined that the RO didn't do all they should have earlier. The BVA may order the RO to do a more thorough C & P exam or to collect more records and then make another decision based on that new evidence.

 

The bottom line is that the BVA has a dozen or more ways to send a file back to the RO for rework. You may be on the way to getting the benefits you seek, you may be staring at 5 more years of paperwork.

You won't know until you see your letter.

 

Just curious...why aren't you asking your "rep" these questions?

 

Did you know that I'm recommending that every BVA claim be handled by a veteran’s law attorney...not a "rep"? I know that these VSO people are free...but you get what you pay for, don't you?

 

https://www.vawatchdog.org/how-to-hire-a-veterans-law-attorney.html