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Subject: DVA - Friend or Foe

Author:
"Rat" Rantall

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Date Posted: 20:12:08 12/08/04 Wed

With my ongoing struggle with PTSD, and all the other hardships associated with it, I find it hard to believe how DVA can be so difficult to work with, eg. my first psych report stated all the facts I qualified for a DVA disability pension, but some civvi at DVA overruled it saying that I still didn't!

My understanding is that DVA are there to help us Vets, the same Vets who did/do the dirty jobs for the politicians.

I here of so many Vets in need of help, but are not strong enough to fight DVA or just get sick of the bullshit run-around from DVA.

I encourage all Vets in need of help not to surrender; we now have another enemy to fight. We will once again look out for each other, help each other, and be there for each other. We are all brothers, a term that civvies can�t truly understand.

Help is out there.

Cheers Rat

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ron munro
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Date Posted: 20:04:24 12/22/04 Wed

I enlisted the services of the RSL with my DVA claim, and also joined the Armed Forces Federation and got the services of a lawyer down in melbourne. after a looooooooong struggle, pshycologists and physicatrists (big words -did i spell them correctly?) i managed to get TPI. Mind you it took a couple to three years of a continueous working at the coal face with this help.

ron munro

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[> Subject: Re: DVA - Friend or Foe
Author: nigel marshall [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:39:06 12/28/04 Tue With my claim through vet affairs i was assisted by Merv Reid. and although it took time I was eventually back paid from date of first notification. I would recommend all to contact the R S L advocate in your area Cheers Nigel [ Post a Reply to This Message ]