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VBM ✔Correct Answer-Veterans Benefit Manual
An Advocates 1st Rule? ✔Correct Answer-Do no harm
What document is required to represent a Veteran? ✔Correct Answer-Power of Attorney(POA)
Can there be more than one POA active at any given time? ✔Correct Answer-No, there cannot be
more than one POA active at the same time
BVA ✔Correct Answer-Board of Veterans Appeals
How many regional offices are there nationally? ✔Correct Answer-58
VA has a duel role when it comes to claims, those are? ✔Correct Answer-Be a friend to the
Veterans but also be a guardian of the tax payer
How can a claimant reopen a case filed by the VA as "final?" ✔Correct Answer-By presenting new
and material evidence
What is new evidence? ✔Correct Answer-Evidence that has not already been submitted to the VA
What is material evidence? ✔Correct Answer-Evidence that helps prove a previously unproven fact
When can the VA deny a claim? ✔Correct Answer-If the weight of the evidence is (more than half)
against the claim
Duty to Assist ✔Correct Answer-VA has the duty to assist claimants who submit a reasonably
possible claim in developing evidence to support their claims
What helps makes an advocates claim successful ✔Correct Answer-Present reasons why the
benefit should be granted and cite appropriate statues and regulations using the VA's adjudication
procedures manual (M21-1MR).
M21-1MR ✔Correct Answer-VA's Adjudication Procedures Manual
What are the 3 elements of a disability compensation claim? ✔Correct Answer-1. Veteran must
currently suffer a disability or have suffered from disability since the claim was filed 2. Must be some
incident in service that could have caused the condition and 3. There must be some way of linking
that current condition to that incident.
3 Departments of the VA ✔Correct Answer-Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Veterans
Health Administration (VHA), Central VA Office (VACO): national Cemetery, General Counsel, Office of
Inspector General.