Veterans benefit manual 2010

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Hit enter to expand a main menu option Health, Benefits, etc. To enter and activate the submenu links, hit the down arrow. Get help from Veterans Crisis Line. Enter your search text Button to start search. Paul St. VA » Veterans Benefits Administration. It's hard for me to tell you how excited you should be with the just published Veterans Benefits Manual by the National Veterans Legal Services Program. To me it feels like a magic wand that can win so many VA claims!

The new VBM has significant additions that address the changes in law, policy and political debate that have happened this past year. Print Terms and Conditions. View a sample of this title using the ReadNow feature. 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. The most significant new information in the recent edition of the Manual has been about the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of AMA , which took effect on February 19, There is updated information in the edition of the Manual about how the new modernized review system has been operating in practice.

Most of that information appears in Chapters 12, 13, and Highlights of the other updates include advocacy essentials such as:.

Click here for more information about LexisNexis eBooks. Barton F. Over his career, Mr. Stichman has trained thousands of non-lawyer accredited veterans service officers, lawyers, and law students in veterans benefits law. He is a member of the Judicial Advisory Committee of the U.

Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and is a past president of the U. Ronald B. A member of the Pennsylvania Bar, Mr. Abrams began his career in in the Philadelphia regional office of the Veterans Administration, serving first as an adjudicator and then as a member of the rating board. As part of his work for the Central Office, Mr. While at the Central Office, Mr. Abrams conducted national training sessions in adjudication and due process for VA staff.

He previously served as a member of the governing board of the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program and helped design its training curriculum.