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FROM THE DECISION LETTER FIELD MANUAL
The one date that controls everything
If you learn one thing from this manual, learn this. The date on the notice letter runs the clock. … The clock runs from the date on the letter, not the day the mail arrived.
FROM THE REVIEW OPTIONS PLAYBOOK
Keep your effective date
Your effective date is the date VA pays from. It can be worth more than the rating itself. … If you keep the issue moving, VA keeps the original date. … Think of it as a chain. Each decision is a link. Each link gives you one more year to add the next one.
SAMPLE CHECKLIST · C&P EXAM PREP
Before the exam
- Confirmed date, time, place
- Submitted new non-VA records to VA
- Read my own records
- One-page symptom timeline
- Worst / average / best day sheet: how often, how bad, how long, what helps
- Medication list with side effects
- Notes on work and daily tasks
- No scripts, no inventing, no minimizing, no performing
Each guide ends with a one-page checklist like this one, ready to print.
Guides are general education, not legal advice.