Service Connection on VA Disability Compensation Claims
Favorable Disability Advocates understand the frustrations prior military servicemembers go through when their VA disability compensation claims are denied for benefits. Based on our experience the primary result of this is simply by not having sufficient documented evidence of a specific medical condition or event that caused their disability. The VA policies & procedures state that service connection is the relationship of a particular disability condition to the veteran’s service. In order for veterans to be eligible for disability compensation monetary benefits they must have a service connection disability resulting on the following criteria:
1. Direct – A disability directly caused by service or be the remote result of some incident of service, and it may have begun coincident with service.
2. Aggravation – A pre-existing disability which become permanently worse during service will be considered to have been aggravated by military service unless there is a specific finding that the increase severity resulted of the conditions natural deterioration.
3. Presumption – Certain chronic and tropical disease will be presumed to have begun during service if they become manifest to a compensable degree within specific time. These specific diseases are presumed to the result of certain incidents of service to include: Prisoner of War, Radiation Risk Activities, and Herbicide Exposure.
4. Secondary – Service connection may be established for a new condition which is directly and proximately caused by an established service connected condition.
Please be advised the following information is used for instructive purposes only. At Favorable Disability Advocates we believe in properly educating the needs of our clients and ensuring quality assurance of our work.
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