fifty5coop
New member
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2009
- Messages
- 6
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Country
- US
- State
- AZ
- City
- Tucson
My brother is rated 100% disability through the VA and is receiving compensation for his service-connected ALS. His diagnosis was done by a neuro at Henry Ford hospital and concurred with by the Detroit VA. April of this year he moved from Michigan to Tucson, AZ to be nearer to me. We got him enrolled at the Tucson VA and he is now receiving all his care with them. He had to be re-evaluated at the VA here in Tucson and just received his re-evaluation letter from the VA which states that there was an "error" in his original eval and they are reducing his monthly compensation by over $300. Something to do with the loss of use of his left arm which they claim he doesn't have now. They are taking away any vehicle adaptation $ also. The Michigan PVA rep said that reductions never happen so we are very surprised at this turn of events here in Arizona. I am contacting Tim's PVA rep Tuesday to find out how to appeal. Has anyone here on this forum ever had a "reduction" in their VA compensation? I hope this is not a pre-cursor of bad things to come with the VA...so far, we've been very satisfied with their care. We hope we didn't make a mistake by switching Tim's medical care completely over to the VA?