Veteran’s Disability New Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP)
On August 23, 2017 President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act, this program was initiated to create a new veterans disability claims and appeals adjudication process. The program provides military veterans with selective options for seeking review of the VA’s decision on their most recent disability compensation claim. At this time partaking in the RAMP program is strictly individually invitation only and this new law does not take effect until February 2019. Veterans with pending Notice of Disagreement (NOD) already filed have the options to enroll in the RAMP program. The new RAMP program can lead into a faster determination of their compensation claim or appeal simply by electing to one of the following lanes in the new moderation review process:
Supplemental Claim
Electing into the supplemental claim option veterans will have all eligible issues currently on appeal status processed with in an average of 125 days. The VA will also review any new and relevant evidence submitted since that prior decision.
Higher Level Review
The higher-level review option is available for all veterans if there is no additional evidence to submit in support of their claim, but they believe there was an error in the initial decision, with an estimated adjudication decision being processed within 125 days. This option also gives veterans and their VSO’s a one-time telephone informal conference hearing to discuss their claim further. However, the telephone conference will cause some delays in the processing of the high-level review.
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