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Veterans Benefits Manual, 2007 Edition |
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| Barton F. Stichman, Ronald B. Abrams, Editors |
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$130.00 |
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 50+ copies, 20% off
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National Veterans Legal Services Program |
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1 volume, softbound, 2,050 pages, replaced annually |
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9781422440575 |
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©2007 |
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This exhaustive manual is an indispensable guide for advocates who help veterans and their families obtain benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
User-friendly, well-indexed, and packed with practical information, it includes sample forms and briefs, flowcharts, checklists, citations to legal authorities, and other
documents designed to streamline the claims process and save you and your veteran client valuable time.
Written by practicing lawyers at the National Veterans Legal Services Program, this manual contains valuable insight and analysis from a team of experts on the front line of veterans law. Use their first-hand experience fighting for veterans' rights and their insider's view of the Department of Veterans Affairs to obtain the benefits your client earned.
The Veterans Benefits Manual contains dozens of effective, battle-tested advocacy tips for veterans and advocates along with all the latest developments in veterans law.
New in the 2007 Edition:
- An entirely new chapter discussing the process for obtaining a copy of, and interpreting the documents in a veteran’s VA claims file;
- How to take advantage of the new rules allowing attorneys and non-attorney “agents” to charge a fee to represent claimants before the VA;
- Updated information on special VA benefits such as automobile and clothing allowances;
- Information on how remarried surviving spouses can keep their VA benefits;
- An explanation of the new rules that entitle veterans of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to VA health care;
- How to obtain reimbursement for co-payments and other costs that a veteran has paid to VA while a disability compensation claim remains pending;
- Advice on how to obtain VA disability benefits based on the failure of VA physicians to obtain the veteran’s consent before performing a medical procedure;
- New information about entitlement to VA burial and other interment-related benefits;
- Advice on how obtaining VA pension plus aid and attendance benefits can help the children of veterans care for their elderly disabled parents;
- How to obtain increased monetary benefits based on new regulations that permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay and VA disability compensation.
- New advice about how to maximize the evaluation of your client’s mental disability; and
- New advice on how to effectively fight a VA attempt to collect an overpayment
This book has everything you need to prepare for practice at the VA Regional Office, the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Go from zero to a high-level of competency with this complete practice guide.
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