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Financial capacity assessment - evaluation of a veteran's ability to manage his or her finances.
A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Vet Center provides readjustment counseling services to United States military veterans.
Advice for veterans regarding the VA PTSD Compensation and Pension Examination (C&P Exam)
Courtesy of u/DaniChicago on the r/VeteransBenefits subreddit: "The VA allows people to use the Waitlist APP to set appointments to talk to actual VBA raters." For more details, click the link below to be taken to the thread on Reddit.
• 1 in 5 veterans in a broad national sample endorsed mild-to-severe dissociative symptoms.
• Vets with dissociative symptoms had greater psychiatric comorbidity and poorer functioning.
• Dissociative symptoms predicted suicide risk above other comorbidities and trauma history.
This article on PTSDexams.net, about this important new research, also includes "Implications for C&P Examiners".
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Center for Minority Veterans (CMV), is seeking nominations of qualified candidates to be considered for appointment as a member of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans (“the Committee”).
Nominations for membership on the Committee must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on July 15, 2021.
The "Continue reading" link below goes directly to the announcement in the Federal Register, which contains more details.
Continue reading "Nominations Sought for Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans"
Twenty-five years after the Persian Gulf War are deployed veterans at greater risk for disease than their non-deployed counterparts?
Recent research seeks to answer this question. The answer might surprise you.
Continue reading "Cause-Specific Mortality Risks Among Veterans 25 Years After 1990–1991 Gulf War"
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the dates for the April 2021 Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation meeting.
This post provides the dates and times for the two meeting sessions, including a table of meeting start times in eight United States time zones; the phone number and code to listen to the meeting live; and information on how you can submit a Public Statement to the Committee.
Continue reading "April 2021 Meeting of the VA Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation"
Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020
Continue reading "Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans ... Act of 2020"
C&P Exam News: H.R. 7105, the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020, was signed by the President on 5 Jan 2021.
There's a lot in this bill, almost of all of it beneficial to veterans.
Of relevance to C&P Exams:
1. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) cannot eliminate C&P examiner positions until certain criteria are met.
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Disability Exams Research - Provides a curated list of recent scholarly articles concerning disability examinations.
VA often requires mental health examiners to complete six CP exams per day (C&P exams) per day, which significantly lowers exam quality.
A chart that compares the legal parameters of mental health compensation and pension examinations (C&P exams) vs typical forensic psychology evaluations
Continue reading "Legal Parameters of Mental Health C&P Exams"
NOVA v Secretary of Veterans Affairs is important veterans case law - en banc opinion - Federal Circuit
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