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thank you hi and welcome to cck live under five my name is Brandon paiva
and in this video I'll be reviewing VA disability benefits after years of service
first let's talk about eligibility veterans may be eligible for VA disability benefits
if they have a current condition and meet certain requirements even if it has been years after the
veterans service specifically veterans must have served on active duty active duty for training or
inactive Duty for training and have become sick or injured while serving in the military and can
link this condition to your illness or injury from service or you had an illness or injury before you
joined the military and it worsened or became more severe while you had served or you have
a disability related to your active duty service that didn't actually appear until after you ended
your service veterans can pursue VA disability benefits in several ways following their discharge
so let's talk about filing for these benefits veterans can file for service connection at any
point following the veterans discharge from active duty service there is no time limit on when you
can claim a condition is related to your service however veterans should file for benefits as soon
as they develop a disability related to service in order to get the earliest possible effective date
now let's talk about some presumptions as well because depending on when your condition manifests
or when you had actually been diagnosed with the condition years after service you may qualify for
automatic service connection under some of these presumptions so certain groups of veterans can get
VA benefits on a presumptive basis if they have an illness that is at least 10 percent disabling
that appears within one year after discharge in order to be qualified on this basis the
condition must be listed in 38 CFR section 3.309 subsection a and the veteran cannot have received
a dishonorable discharge typically speaking when it comes to disability benefits you have to have
a discharge that is other than dishonorable in order to qualify for these benefits
now in order to receive benefits under these conditions veterans must file a claim for
disability compensation and submit evidence to the VA additionally some chronic conditions qualify
for presumptive service connection even if they appear more than one year after service now these
conditions are things like Hansen's Disease as long as it appears within three years after your
discharge tuberculosis if it appears within three years after discharge as well multiple
sclerosis or Ms if it appears within seven years after discharged and lastly ALS also known as Lou
Gehrig's Disease now if this appears anytime after your discharge you can go ahead and file
claim for compensation and you should be afforded presumptive service connection so these are some
ways that you can still apply for VA benefits even years after you've been discharged from service
if you were looking for more information on VA disability benefits including how to apply please
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