VBA C&P EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Veterans Health Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Also known as VHA, governs the medical
treatment facilities within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans Benefits Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Also known as VBA, is responsible for
providing a wide variety of benefits and services to Veterans and Servicemembers through Regional
Offices.
Board of Veterans' Appeals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Also known as BVA, is the component of the VA
responsible for making final decisions on behalf of the Secretary for claims for Veterans' benefits from
all three Administrations and the Office of General Counsel (OGC) that are presented to the Board for
appellate review.
Disability compensation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A tax-free monetary benefit paid to Veterans with
disabilities that are the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active military service.
Special Monthly Compensation (SMC) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A higher rate of compensation paid due
to special circumstances such as the need of aid and attendance by another person or by a specific
disability such as the loss of use of a hand or leg. Paid to Veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses and
parents.
Claims Based on Special Circumstances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Veterans may be eligible for other types
of disability compensation once a disability has been determined to be service connected. i.e.,individual
unemployability, automobile allowance, clothing allowance, prestabilization, hospitalization,
convalescence, dental, and birth defects.
Pension - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Needs-based benefit for wartime Veterans with limited or no income
who are age 65 or older, or who have a permanent and total disability.
Steps of the disability claim - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. VBA notifies the Veteran or Servicemember that
VBA has received his or her claim.
2. A VSR or RVSR reviews the claim. A decision will be made unless more evidence is needed.
3. The VSR or RVSR will:
, ask for evidence from the claimant, health care providers, governmental agencies, or others
review the evidence make a decision
If VBA needs more evidence during the review, the claim may return to this step more than once.
4. VBA will prepare the claimant's entire claim decision packet for mailing.
VBA will send the Veteran or Servicemember a packet by U.S. mail that includes details of the decision
on the claim.
Presumption of soundness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅VA will consider a Veteran to have been in sound
condition, i.e., good health, when examined, accepted and enrolled for service, except as to defects,
infirmities, or disorders noted at entrance into service, or where clear and unmistakable (obvious or
manifest) evidence demonstrates that an injury or disease existed prior to service and was not
aggravated by such service.
Direct service connection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Current disability was caused by or resulted from his
military service.
Secondary service connection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Veteran's disability is proximately due to or
caused by a previously identified service-connected condition.
Aggravation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Permanent worsening of a) a pre-service condition during service
(aggravation of a pre-existing condition) or b) a nonservice-connected condition at any time by a service-
connected condition (secondary or Allen aggravation).
Presumptive service connection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Some diseases can be presumptively service
connected--- that is, if they appear within a certain period of time after service(called presumptive
period). i.e., agent orange exposure or Camp Lejune water contamination
Lay evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence given by a layperson (an ordinary person) about the
facts in dispute
38 CFR 3.304, Direct service connection; wartime and peacetime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Satisfactory
lay or other evidence that an injury or disease was incurred or aggravated in combat will be accepted as
sufficient proof of service connection if the evidence is consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or
hardships of such service even though there is no official record of such incurrence or aggravation.
Veterans Health Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Also known as VHA, governs the medical
treatment facilities within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans Benefits Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Also known as VBA, is responsible for
providing a wide variety of benefits and services to Veterans and Servicemembers through Regional
Offices.
Board of Veterans' Appeals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Also known as BVA, is the component of the VA
responsible for making final decisions on behalf of the Secretary for claims for Veterans' benefits from
all three Administrations and the Office of General Counsel (OGC) that are presented to the Board for
appellate review.
Disability compensation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A tax-free monetary benefit paid to Veterans with
disabilities that are the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active military service.
Special Monthly Compensation (SMC) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A higher rate of compensation paid due
to special circumstances such as the need of aid and attendance by another person or by a specific
disability such as the loss of use of a hand or leg. Paid to Veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses and
parents.
Claims Based on Special Circumstances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Veterans may be eligible for other types
of disability compensation once a disability has been determined to be service connected. i.e.,individual
unemployability, automobile allowance, clothing allowance, prestabilization, hospitalization,
convalescence, dental, and birth defects.
Pension - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Needs-based benefit for wartime Veterans with limited or no income
who are age 65 or older, or who have a permanent and total disability.
Steps of the disability claim - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. VBA notifies the Veteran or Servicemember that
VBA has received his or her claim.
2. A VSR or RVSR reviews the claim. A decision will be made unless more evidence is needed.
3. The VSR or RVSR will:
, ask for evidence from the claimant, health care providers, governmental agencies, or others
review the evidence make a decision
If VBA needs more evidence during the review, the claim may return to this step more than once.
4. VBA will prepare the claimant's entire claim decision packet for mailing.
VBA will send the Veteran or Servicemember a packet by U.S. mail that includes details of the decision
on the claim.
Presumption of soundness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅VA will consider a Veteran to have been in sound
condition, i.e., good health, when examined, accepted and enrolled for service, except as to defects,
infirmities, or disorders noted at entrance into service, or where clear and unmistakable (obvious or
manifest) evidence demonstrates that an injury or disease existed prior to service and was not
aggravated by such service.
Direct service connection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Current disability was caused by or resulted from his
military service.
Secondary service connection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Veteran's disability is proximately due to or
caused by a previously identified service-connected condition.
Aggravation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Permanent worsening of a) a pre-service condition during service
(aggravation of a pre-existing condition) or b) a nonservice-connected condition at any time by a service-
connected condition (secondary or Allen aggravation).
Presumptive service connection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Some diseases can be presumptively service
connected--- that is, if they appear within a certain period of time after service(called presumptive
period). i.e., agent orange exposure or Camp Lejune water contamination
Lay evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence given by a layperson (an ordinary person) about the
facts in dispute
38 CFR 3.304, Direct service connection; wartime and peacetime - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Satisfactory
lay or other evidence that an injury or disease was incurred or aggravated in combat will be accepted as
sufficient proof of service connection if the evidence is consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or
hardships of such service even though there is no official record of such incurrence or aggravation.
