VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER (VSO) EXAM 2024 WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the general types of evidence used to present a VA claim? Correct Answer: -
Medical records
-Service Records
-Expert witness Statements
-Lay Witness statements
-ANY documentary Evidence
How many regional offices are there nationally? Correct Answer: 58
What is the duel role the VA implements when you are filing a claim? Correct Answer:
Be a friend to the Veterans but also be a guardian of the tax payer.
What is considered new evidence? Correct Answer: Evidence that has not already been
submitted to the VA
What is considered material evidence? Correct Answer: Evidence that helps prove a
previously unproven fact
How can a claimant reopen a case filed by the VA as "final?" Correct Answer: By
presenting new and material evidence.
When can the VA deny a claim? Correct Answer: If the weight of the evidence is (more
than half) AGAINST the claim.
Who does the VA have the 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 when presenting to the VA? 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).
What is the M21-1MR and what does it do? Correct Answer: VA's Adjudication
Procedures Manual
It provides guidance- common symptoms, disabling effects, communications, and how
to rate complications
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 INSIDENT WHILE IN SERVICE that could have caused the condition
3. There must be some way of LINKING that current condition to that incident.
VA benefits Correct Answer: Health Care
Disability Compensation
Education and Training
what are the 3 Departments of the VA Correct Answer: 1) Veterans Benefits
Administration (VBA),
2) Veterans Health Administration (VHA),
3) Central VA Office (VACO): national Cemetery, General Counsel, Office of Inspector
General.
What is a review "de novo"? Correct Answer: A new and complete review that DOES
NOT give any weight to the fact that the Regional Office(RO) personnel previously
denied the claim.
What are the 13 types of claims? Correct Answer: 1) Compensation (COMP)
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the general types of evidence used to present a VA claim? Correct Answer: -
Medical records
-Service Records
-Expert witness Statements
-Lay Witness statements
-ANY documentary Evidence
How many regional offices are there nationally? Correct Answer: 58
What is the duel role the VA implements when you are filing a claim? Correct Answer:
Be a friend to the Veterans but also be a guardian of the tax payer.
What is considered new evidence? Correct Answer: Evidence that has not already been
submitted to the VA
What is considered material evidence? Correct Answer: Evidence that helps prove a
previously unproven fact
How can a claimant reopen a case filed by the VA as "final?" Correct Answer: By
presenting new and material evidence.
When can the VA deny a claim? Correct Answer: If the weight of the evidence is (more
than half) AGAINST the claim.
Who does the VA have the 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 when presenting to the VA? 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).
What is the M21-1MR and what does it do? Correct Answer: VA's Adjudication
Procedures Manual
It provides guidance- common symptoms, disabling effects, communications, and how
to rate complications
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 INSIDENT WHILE IN SERVICE that could have caused the condition
3. There must be some way of LINKING that current condition to that incident.
VA benefits Correct Answer: Health Care
Disability Compensation
Education and Training
what are the 3 Departments of the VA Correct Answer: 1) Veterans Benefits
Administration (VBA),
2) Veterans Health Administration (VHA),
3) Central VA Office (VACO): national Cemetery, General Counsel, Office of Inspector
General.
What is a review "de novo"? Correct Answer: A new and complete review that DOES
NOT give any weight to the fact that the Regional Office(RO) personnel previously
denied the claim.
What are the 13 types of claims? Correct Answer: 1) Compensation (COMP)
