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NEWSLETTER
A Publication for Members of the Disabled American Veterans Dept. of NY
August 2003

Combat Related Special Compensation Update
Ronald D. Tears , Department Commander

To date DoD has received over 12,000 applications for Combat-Related Special Compensation. At least 100 will be approved to receive payments July 1. The number of approved applications should increase significantly each month as the applications move through the review process.

DoD has 3 suggestions to improve the quality of an application which will aid in managing the requests:

  1. Be careful to classify disabilities as awarded by the VA. A retiree who does not have this information should contact the VA regional office and request a listing of their disabilities by VASRD code (VA Schedule of Rating Disabilities). The VA has notified regional offices to expect and support such requests. The VA has been very helpful to DoD and the two Departments are working closely to achieve an effective flow and exchange of information needed to operate the CRSC program.
  2. A retiree should try to find and submit a copy of the first VA rating decision on the disability that shows the basis of the award. This is especially needed for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) claims. More recent ratings may show only that the disability has been increased in percentage with no information about the origin of the disability or basis of the award.
  3. Retirees should avoid submission of unrelated documents. The retiree should try and provide only those supporting documents that deal with qualifying conditions. This is especially true for medical records. The review board may find it difficult to document a combat disability if the retiree sends in all his/her medical records.
Members must apply to their own branch of service using DD form 2860, Application for Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC). Information is available at http://dod.mil/prhome/crsc.html.

Department of Veterans Affairs Policy regarding CRSC was released on 20 June 2003 to its Regional Offices. The following was extracted from the policy statement. To see the entire statement visit http://www.crlegislation.com/News/CRSC%20VA%20Instructions.htm.

"Local offices must be familiar with the general outlines of CRSC. The administration of the CRSC program, however, rests solely with DoD. Therefore, questions concerning anything specific in nature should be referred to the retiree's service department. We anticipate that the service departments will request records from VA through the Compensation and Pension Service. We are exploring securing a national contract with a vendor to provide copying services for this project, and to send the documents directly to the appropriate CRSC Board. The C&P Service will receive the requests, determine folder locations and advise local offices of the records that need to be provided. Specific information with respect to this process will be forthcoming. VA will provide photocopies of the following records to the service departments when requested:

  1. All DD-214's and DD-215's of record
  2. All service medical records
  3. All formal ratings (exclude hand written C&C ratings and specialty ratings such as Chapter 31 ratings, special adapted housing ratings, etc.)
When providing ratings, it is essential to include the coded conclusion. Retirees may call and ask for a copy of their M13 screen or a copy of their rating code sheet. Such information should be given to the retiree to assist in filing his/her claim with DoD. While DoD advises retirees that DoD will come to VA for additional information if needed to decide the claim, we expect that some retirees will come to you for copies of their records. If those requests are in writing, the request falls under the Privacy Act and must be handled in accordance with the limitations of that law." [Source: NAUS Update 3 JUL 03]

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