GUIDES AND COURSE

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1. FIELD GUIDE

   The Decision Letter Field Manual

   How to read a VA rating decision the way an attorney does: what each section means, the seven errors that show up most, and the one date that controls everything.

   • The anatomy of a rating decision and the code sheet
   • Effective dates, and why they are worth more than the rating
   • Where VA hides the reasons for a denial
   • A one-page checklist to run on any letter

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2. FIELD GUIDE

   The Review Options Playbook

   Higher-Level Review, Supplemental Claim or the Board: how to pick, what each one can and cannot fix, and how to keep your effective date through all of it.

   • The three lanes compared on one page
   • When new evidence helps and when it hurts
   • Deadlines, continuous pursuit and the one-year clock
   • Filling in VA Forms 20-0996, 20-0995 and 10182

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3. FIELD GUIDE

   C&P Exam Prep

   What the examiner is scoring, how to describe a bad day without exaggerating, and what to do the week after.

   • How DBQs turn your words into a rating
   • Flare-ups, functional loss and the questions that matter
   • Bringing a witness, taking notes, requesting the report
   • What to do when the exam went wrong

   $19 one time

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4. THE COURSE

   Ruck Up: Your VA Claim From Decision to Appeal

   All three guides plus a six-part video course and every update for a year. Built for the Veteran who wants to run the claim personally and get it right once.

   • All three field guides
   • Six short lessons, about 15 minutes each
   • Worked examples from real (anonymized) decisions
   • Updates for a year as VA changes the rules

   $79 one time

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Guides are general education, not legal advice. Ruck Ready is a trade name of ClaimScope LLC, an Iowa company, independent of the Department of Veterans Affairs.