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Three things that will help a veteran with his claim, is to know the process, and how to find info about your illness or injury.
The first reference below is a web site where you can see the C&P Exam the VA uses, and print it out... can even show it to your
private doctor. Of Course you can also search for info about your illness at www.google.com

2nd reference below is a web site you can search, review and print out various pages of regulations, etc about the VA system & claims.

3rd reference is a web site where you can search Veteran Board of Appeals to see how the VA has handled your illness or injury, and what they were looking for, and what paragraphs in VA regs apply


1.
http://www.vba. va.gov/bln/ 21/Benefits/ exams/index. htm

These 57 Disability Examination Worksheets are in use both by the doctors of VHA (Veterans Health Administration) who do the disability examinations and by the rating specialists, hearing officers, and Decision Review Officers of VBA (Veterans Benefits Administration) who do the disability evaluations.
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2.
http://www.warms. vba.va.gov/ TOCindex. htm

especially:
Compensation and Pension - 21

38 Code of Federal Regulations - REGS

38 Code of Federal Regulations - REGS


Book A - General
Book B - Adjudication
Book C - Schedule for Rating Disabilities
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3.
an on-line search of BVA's decisions, enter the word or group of words you are looking for in the block below. From the resulting list, you can connect directly to individual decision texts or you can return to this page to conduct additional searches. Decisions are current through August 31, 2007.

http://www.index. va.gov/search/ va/bva.html