Veteran Benefit Link Collection
Below are web-sites that provide information on Veterans benefits and how to file/ask for them. Accordingly, there are many sites that explain how to obtain books, military/medical records, information and how to appeal a denied claim with the VA. Please pass this information on to every Veteran you know. Nearly 100% of this information is free and available for all veterans, the only catch is: you have to ask for it, because they won’t tell you about a specific benefit unless you ask for it. You need to know what questions to ask so the right doors open for you — and then be ready to have an advocate who is willing to work with and for you, stay in the process, and press for your rights and your best interests.
Appeals http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch05.doc
Board of Veteran’s Appeals http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Commission http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Draft National Plan http://www1.va.gov/cares/page.cfm?pg=105
Center for Minority Veterans http://www1.va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/
Center for Veterans Enterprise http://www.vetbiz.gov/default2.htm
Center for Women Veterans http://www1.va.gov/womenvet/
Clarification on the changes in VA healthcare for Gulf War Veterans http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000016.html
Classified Records - American Gulf War Veterans Assoc http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000011.html
Compensation for Disabilities Associated with the Gulf War Service http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/part6/ch07.doc
Compensation Rate Tables, 12-1-03
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Rates/comp01.htm
Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page http://www.va.gov/
Directory of Veterans Service Organizations http://www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view
Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/exams/index.htm
Due Process http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch02.doc
Duty to Assist
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch01.doc
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
Emergency, Non-emergency, and Fee Basis Care http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf
Environmental Agents http://www1.va.gov/environagents/
Environmental Agents M10
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1002
Establishing Combat Veteran Eligibility
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=315
EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR GULF WAR AND IRAQI FREEDOM VETERANS WITH POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHandbook1303122304.DOC
and
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1158
and
Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DepletedUraniumFAQSheet.doc
and
EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR NON -GULF WAR VETERANS WITH POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHANDBOOKNONGW130340304.DOC
Fee Basis, PRIORITY FOR OUTPATIENT MEDICAL SERVICES AND INPATIENT HOSPITAL CARE
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=206
Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependants 2005 http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf
OR, http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/current_benefits.htm
Forms and Records Request http://www.va.gov/vaforms/
General Compensation Provisions
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter11_subchaptervi_.html
Geriatrics and Extended Care http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/
Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG http://www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/cpgn/mus/mus_base.htm
Guide to Gulf War Veteran’s Health
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/VHIgulfwar.pdf
Gulf War Subject Index
http://www1.va.gov/GulfWar/page.cfm?pg=7&template=main&letter=A
Gulf War Veteran’s Illnesses Q&As
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWIllnessesQandAsIB1041.pdf
Hearings http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch04.doc
Homeless Veterans http://www1.va.gov/homeless/
HSR&D Home http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/
Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P exams http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/exams/index.htm
Ionizing Radiation http://www1.va.gov/irad/
Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA http://www.vba.va.gov/EFIF/
M10 for spouses and children
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1007
M10 Part III Change 1
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1008
M21-1 Table of Contents http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/M21_1.html
Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38CFR/BOOKC/PART4/S4_130.DOC
Mental Health Program Guidelines
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1094
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers http://www.mirecc.med.va.gov/
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Centers of Excellence http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
My Health e Vet http://www.myhealth.va.gov/
NASDVA.COM <http://nasdva.com/> National Association of State Directors
National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention http://www.nchpdp.med.va.gov/postdeploymentlinks.asp
Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38cfr/bookc/part4/s4%5F124a.doc
OMI (Office of Medical Inspector) http://www.omi.cio.med.vagov/
Online VA Form 10-10EZ https://www.1010ez.med.vagov/sec/vha/1010ez/
Parkinson’s Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders http://www1.va.gov/resdev/funding/solicitations/docs/parkinsons.pdf
and http://www1.va.gov/padrecc/
Peacetime Disability Compensation
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+38USC1131
Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteri_.html
and,http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapterii_.html
and, http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteriii_..html
Persian Gulf Registry
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1003
This program is now referred to as Gulf War Registry Program (to include Operation Iraqi Freedom) as of March 7, 2005:
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1232
Persian Gulf Registry Referral Centers
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1006
Persian Gulf Veterans’ Illnesses Research 1999, Annual Report To Congress http://www1.va.gov/resdev/1999_Gulf_War_Veterans’_Illnesses_Appendices.doc
Persian Gulf Veterans’ Illnesses Research 2002, Annual Report To Congress http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/gulf_war_2002/GulfWarRpt02.pdf
Phase I PGR
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1004
Phase II PGR
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1005
Policy Manual Index http://www.va.gov/publ/direc/eds/edsmps.htm
Power of Attorney
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch03.doc
Project 112 (Including Project SHAD) http://www1.va.gov/shad/
Prosthetics Eligibility
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=337
Public Health and Environmental Hazards Home Page http://www.vethealth.cio.med.va.gov/
Public Health/SARS http://www.publichealth.va.gov/SARS/
Publications Manuals
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/publications.cfm?Pub=4
Publications and Reports
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/pubs_individual.cfm?webpage=gulf_war.htm
Records Center and Vault Homepage
http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/default.html
Records Center and Vault Site Map
http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/sitemap.html
REQUEST FOR AND CONSENT TO RELEASE OF INFORMATION FROM CLAIMANT’S RECORDS
http://www.forms.va.gov/va/Internet/VARF/getformharness.asp?formName=3288-form.xft
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses April 11,
2002 http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/Minutes_April112002.doc
Research Advisory Committee on Gul f War Veterans Illnesses http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/ReportandRecommendations_2004.pdf
Research and Development
http://www.appc1.va.gov/resdev/programs/all_programs.cfm
Survivor’s and Dependents’ Educational Assistance http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partiii_chapter35_.html
Title 38, Pensions, Bonuses & Veterans Relief (also A 3.317 Compensation for certain disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses found here)
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Title 38, PART 4–SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES, Subpart B–DISABILITY RATINGS
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=9985b26004e8ebf
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A 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual. PART 4a “SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES Subpart Aa”General Policy in Rating
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U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims http://www.vetapp.gov/
VA Best Practice Manual for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) http://www.avapl.org/pub/PTSD%20Manual%20final%206.pdf
VA Fact Sheet http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/gwfs.html
VA Health Care Eligibility
http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/home/hecmain.asp
VA INSTITUTING GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTION (GAF) http://www.avapl.org/gaf/gaf.html
VA Life Insurance Handbook a” Chapter 3
http://www.insurance.va.gov/inForceGliSite/GLIhandbook/glibookletch3.htm#310
VA Loan Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans
http://valoans.com/va_facts_limits.cfm
VA MS Research http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
VA National Hepatitis C Program http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/
VA Office of Research and Development http://www1.va.gov/resdev/
VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War
http://www.va.gov/OAA/pocketcard/gulfwar.asp
VA WMD EMSHG http://www1.va.gov/emshg/
VA WRIISC-DC http://www.va.gov/WRIISC-DC/
VAOIG Hotline Telephone Number and Address http://www.va.gov/oig/hotline/hotline3.htm
Vet Center Eligibility - Readjustment Counseling Service http://www.va.gov/rcs/Eligibility.htm
Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page http://www.vba.va.gov/
Veterans Legal and Benefits Information http://valaw.org/
VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/
VHA Programs - Clinical Programs & Initiatives
http://www1.va.gov/health_benefits/page.cfm?pg=13
VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group Home Page http://www.publichealth.va.gov/
VHI Guide to Gulf War Veteransa(tm) Health http://www1.va.gov/vhi_ind_study/gulfwar/istudy/index.asp
Vocational Rehabilitation http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/ <http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/>
Vocational Rehabilitation Subsistence
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/InterSubsistencefy04.doc
VONAPP online http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp
WARMS - 38 CFR Book C http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/bookc.html
Wartime Disability Compensation
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&doc
id=Cite:+38USC1110
War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center - New Jersey http://www.wri.med.va.gov/
Welcome to the GI Bill Web Site http://www.gibill.va.gov/
What VA Social Workers Do http://www1.va.gov/socialwork/page.cfm?pg=3
WRIISC Patient Eligibility http://www.illegion.org/va1.html
How would a product manager fix higher education?
By Robert van der Hooning and Ben Bradley
The recession has taken aim at higher education. It’s too late to hide, the carnage is everywhere.
Even Harvard feels the pain. It offered buyouts to 1,600 employees after suffering an $8 billion endowment loss. In California, the situation is ugly - a $97 million cut for FY09 at Cal State University and another $66 million reduction in FY10 resulting in a $283 million operating hole.
Illinois spends about $3 billion a year on higher education, not including capital investment and tuition. Not enough, according to university leaders. What’s their response? Freeze hiring, increase tuition prices and beg for Federal funding. That’s activity without a purpose and certainly not a strategy.
This begs a bailout-esque question, “Where did all that money go?” One analysis [1] shows a whopping 44% of all academic spending goes to administrative support and a falling share to faculty salaries and student instruction. Higher education has grown fat on a steady diet of tuition increases and unbridled growth in administrative overhead.
Imagine stockholder’s reaction to a company whose overhead costs rose double digits on zero sales growth.
Given the Illinois’ $11 billion deficit and a $53 billion FY2010 budget (give or take a $billion here or there), should higher education be untouchable? The state’s budget shows higher education spending flat over FY2009 but up 10% since FY2008 (excluding contributions to retirement). That’s $3 billion in taxpayer subsidy for starters, not including tuition payments from mom and dad or contributions from non-parental donors.
As a bailout-fatigued parent of 2 future college students, I’m going to ask the hard question: Could Illinois taxpayers get better results on our $3 billion annual higher education investment if a product manager ran our state’s portfolio of universities?
Ultimately, leadership is about strategy, resource allocation and results. Even though their organizations and products are different, higher education should take a lesson from basic product management before politicians step in and do it for them. How? Two simple performance metrics — product profitability and yield — can help higher education manage smarter.
Product Profitability. Imagine that all the colleges across the University of Illinois were brands, its programs were products and courses were components. The College of Engineering and its 7,600 students has a strong brand. Its Department of Computer Science provides tremendous value through tuition, federal research grants and alumni donations. In contrast, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) provides comparatively less brand value but educates more than 15,000 students. LAS’ Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, while well-respected, provides less value to the University than Computer Science. I’m not picking on Slavic Languages at all; just using it as an example.
A product manager would calculate the profitability of each course taught in each department within each college of the university, allocate revenues from outside sources (i.e., donations, gifts, research grants) and subtract department’s faculty, staff and other direct costs. Once this database is organized, results can be viewed at a course, department, program, or college level. This makes analysis of contribution margin is quick and straightforward.
A product portfolio manager would take a broader perspective and look at all courses taught in all departments across all universities in the State of Illinois. Why? To align resources in a way that 1) satisfies student demand, 2) educates students profitably and 3) provides a stimulating and sustainable environment for scholars to flourish in their chosen fields.
How, specifically? Let’s start with Slavic and Baltic Language departments as an example.
If there are 8 Slavic and Baltic Language departments across Illinois’ public universities but demand for only 25% of capacity, is it prudent for Illinois taxpayers to foot the bill for 75% excess capacity? Probably not. Is it wise to get rid of all 8 departments due to low demand? Of course not.
So, what steps could any single department undertake to improve its profitability or minimize its loss? With only a local perspective, each department keeps enough faculty and staff to sustain academic excellence and enough courses to be attractive to students. With a wider lens, however, one might argue that merging 8 departments into 3 bigger departments and allocating them strategically based on demand and geography would make more sense. Students interested in Slavic languages could still choose 1 of 3 schools to attend, academic excellence would improve as more scholars collaborate together, and selective reductions that balance capacity with demand would yield the cost reductions state budgets demand. Moreover, the University with the best Slavic and Baltic Language department could expand its product footprint by franchising instruction to other Illinois universities that can’t afford the fixed costs of a boutique department through in-residence, electronic or blended delivery models.
Product managers don’t just downsize. They also expand capacity to steal share from competitors. Let’s use the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois’ College of Engineering (ranked 4th nationally) as an example.
The capacity of the Department of Computer Science is constrained by classroom space, faculty and its budget. Despite its strong ranking, enrollments held steady between 590-625 students for the past 3 years. As a consequence, hundreds of highly qualified Illinois students were forced to attend out of state schools where they pay two or three times more for tuition. Hundreds of out-of-state students who are willing to pay tuition premiums at Illinois could not attend. These “leakage” and “stock-out” problems represents more than lost revenue for the College of Engineering and University of Illinois. When markets don’t clear, inefficiency brings a cost. In this case, the State of Illinois is deprived of scarce human capital that creates new technologies and builds new businesses, and Illinois taxpayers subsidize higher education more than they should.
To be clear, I am not advocating elimination or expansion of any particular department or college. The point is to optimize a product portfolio and find a sustainable operating structure across the state’s publicly funded education system where budget reality and scholarship coexist at the appropriate scale based on market demand and financial constraints.
If an institutional haircut is inevitable, insight from product profitability analysis can be the difference between a smart trim and a buzz cut.
There is still time for Springfield and higher education to collaborate on a smarter haircut, but budgetary tweaking isn’t enough. Without a different approach, I see Bailout 3.0 right around the corner.
[1] http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/15/delta
A great new creative approach for a 419 scam
The scammers just keep getting more creative. Here is a 419 spam I recently received. Very clever.
I am Mrs.Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernard Madoff.
I am actually going through some kind of difficult time with my family right now, as my husband is at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York City.
My husband Sentencing is scheduled for June 16, 2009 and he is likely to face a maximum sentence of 150 years in prison and $170 billion in restitution, so there is need for me to move out allot of my personal funds and personal belongings around the world , particularly from outside America, but i need somebody to trust now, because i cannot receive funds here in America right now.
I would need your help in acquiring some properties and keeping some large cash amount for me. but first i would prefer to chat with you either on yahoo chat or Skype. if you are not comfortable with yahoo then write me,so we can communicate via email.
This is very urgent, i would have to entrust a large amount of money into your hands and some personal valuables. But this would have to be very confidential, just between me and you, because the press are after me and my husband name all over the headlines, because of his Wall street business.
Anyway! don’t be scared about the risk, it is a very safe deal i can assure you of your confidentiality.
Yours Sincerely
Mrs. Ruth Alpern Madoff
How big is your rolodex and does it matter?
Had a great conversation with a job hunting friend. He’s a tried and true sales guy - always beating his quota. A great rolodex, healthy w2s and all the trappings those things bring. He told me recently about an interview where the VP of Sales wanted to actually see his rolodex - wanted to see how many decision makers were actually in his Treo.
You’d think these old school morons would somehow find a clue. Probably too much to hope for.
The rolodex is irrelevant. Certainly, who you know matters. But the thing that matters more is what you do with your rolodex.
There is a fantastic article on this topic over at MyVenturePad. Check it out.
Do we really want to understand the sex lives of our grandparents?
We talk about the value of transparency. On paper, transparency seems like a good idea.
But sometimes transparency can go too far. Don’t ask how the sausage gets made.
As communicators, we believe that rational people appreciate a look at the inner workings of a process or a negotiation. We think this transparency helps others understand the various give and take necessary to reach agreement.
But I’m starting to think that transparency has limits. In fact, I’m starting to think that somethings are better left unknown.
Digital Darwinism
S+B writes about the HP’s recent marketing campaign, and the ways digital platforms are transforming the ways in which consumers experience advertising.
The entire article is available here… http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00069?cid=rr20090511
Here’s a quick exerpt…
This shift, which has become increasingly apparent in the last few years, has been confirmed by “Marketing & Media Ecosystem 2010,” a landmark cross-industry study that Booz & Company recently completed in partnership with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA). An ecosystem is an appropriate metaphor for today’s marketing environment. It is a dynamic, complex, and interconnected community in which marketers, advertising agencies, and media companies depend on one another, to a certain extent, to survive and thrive. But it is also a brutal, competitive arena, where a kind of “digital Darwinism,” or survival of the fittest, holds sway, rapidly distinguishing winners from losers. Companies that possess certain preferred traits in their organizational DNA or that have superior skills of self-adaptation are positioned to flourish in this ecosystem. Those without either face almost certain extinction.
Twitter squatters creating brand confusion
Now what? A Twitter land rush? Fantastic article here by Julian Lee.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/squatters-creating-twittering-confusion-20090429-andk.html
Trademark Twitter identities are being snapped up.
Some companies such as Billabong have been quick off the mark, snapping up names. Billabong spokesman John Mossop said: “Billabong has a strong online presence and that includes three official Twitter addresses — billabonggirls, BBgirls and billabong1973. It would appear none of the other Billabong addresses are ours so we’re making inquiry into their ownership.”
Others, such as Coca-Cola, have been forced to make do with less than satisfactory monikers, such as CocaColaCo. But in something of a first the company has complained directly to Twitter about squatting on its trademark and succeeded in getting the CocaCola identity handed back.
Yesterday a Coca-Cola spokesman reported: “We are now officially in possession of the ‘coca-cola’ account, as Twitter acknowledged the name as a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company. Clearly Coca-Cola sees the value of Twitter as a way of it having ‘real-time’ conversations with our fans and followers, primarily around our shared passions for sports, music and online activities.”
http://business.theage.com.au/business/squatters-creating-twittering-confusion-20090429-andk.html
Hilarious - twitter disguised as a spreadsheet.
Twitter disguised as a spreadsheet. Not allowed to Twitter at work? Here’s the work-around.
http://www.elliottkember.com/spreadtweet.html
Effort trumps ability
Fantastic article in the New Yorker from Gladwell about how David beats Goliath.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell
David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time.
Whitepaper on list rental characteristics for IT Markets
Because an organization’s investment in information technology is more a function of vertical market and organization culture (as opposed to gross revenue or total employment), it is important to use demographic characteristics that are statistically equivalent to a target market size demographic. To illustrate, a $500 million financial services company will spend about $35 million on IT, but a $500 million manufacturing company will spend less than $10 million on IT. The use of multiple demographic characteristics provides better market targeting as well as more complete market coverage.
Anyone interesting in this topic should look at a whitepaper called “IT Market Characteristics: Essential Details for Today’s Informed Marketing and Sales Executives.” This paper explores a variety of market segmentation issues as they specifically apply to the IT marketplace. Includes various market statistics and formulas for converting conventional size characteristics to IT specific size characteristics. This report can be downloaded at www.itmarketintelligence.com,
