CRSC
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You have to be in retired status, I don't think they care about you being a NG.
There are lots of facts. In my case CRSC added ZERO dollars.
I found this explanation to be very beneficial for me. Although I must admit, I'm still in the process of trying to figure out my particular case.
http://www.pebforum.com/site/threads/crsc-calculation-blowing-my-mind.18344/
http://www.pebforum.com/site/threads/crsc-calculation-blowing-my-mind.18344/
I don't have any VSO'S nearby to help me, but I'd like to apply for combat compensation. The problem I'm having is shifting through my medical record. Half is paper, half is electronic and all the civilian doctors is paper. The paper half is about 4 inches thick and the electronic part is on 2 dvds. The civilian doctor stuff is about 3 inches thick. Well, I got hurt in 2 different parts of my service one time in my 1st enlistment and another in 4th. I ended up retiring medically at 20 and a half years. Obviously any physical issues I had early were manageable, it was later that I got the one-two punch that combined things and made it worse.
Anyway, I'm looking to see if someone has a trick, or system or something that can help going through all this paperwork and then putting it into the forms required by the Marine Corps. Thank you in advance.
Anyway, I'm looking to see if someone has a trick, or system or something that can help going through all this paperwork and then putting it into the forms required by the Marine Corps. Thank you in advance.
In the middle of Yuma county Arizona. The closest city is at least an hour away.
The back story is, my wife and I like to move somewhere else. No particular place is better than any other. We would to be fairly close to an University and some sort of medical but not really near that many people. As a general rule I am not people friendly, plus I'm of German decent so people don't know how to handle me anyway. One of the barriers we have is taxes, when uncle Sam takes a third of my retirement it hurts since our only income is the VA and my retirement pay. (For some stupid reason I keep getting turned down from Social Security so we stopped trying.)
My wife can't get meaningful employment because I need alot of care, some examples are I can't use the bathroom by myself, I can't put on my clothes, I can't tie a knot, I can't lift more than about 10 ounces, I can't breathe at night without a ASV ( the "pull the plug" machine), and the list goes on.
The dream is live a sustainable as possible plus I need as much non processed food as possible to include 7 or 8 times as much fiber as the average adult. So the goal is grow most of our own food and live as much off the grid as possible. Our current location isn't good for that. So hence the moving part.
We would like something that we can pay off relatively soon, like under ten years. If we could recoup the taxes part were missing then maybe we could pull that off. We like season change but because of my issues a winter with not alot of snow fall is better. Our list includes Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Florida aND maybe Wisconsin. Most states are eliminated because we've lived there before and didn't like it, we don't like their laws like gun control or something like that, or a tax reason. Wisconsin is on our list for a bunch of reasons but one of them is I grew up there.
I know this is way more information than what is needed to answer my question but sometimes context helps.
My wife can't get meaningful employment because I need alot of care, some examples are I can't use the bathroom by myself, I can't put on my clothes, I can't tie a knot, I can't lift more than about 10 ounces, I can't breathe at night without a ASV ( the "pull the plug" machine), and the list goes on.
The dream is live a sustainable as possible plus I need as much non processed food as possible to include 7 or 8 times as much fiber as the average adult. So the goal is grow most of our own food and live as much off the grid as possible. Our current location isn't good for that. So hence the moving part.
We would like something that we can pay off relatively soon, like under ten years. If we could recoup the taxes part were missing then maybe we could pull that off. We like season change but because of my issues a winter with not alot of snow fall is better. Our list includes Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Florida aND maybe Wisconsin. Most states are eliminated because we've lived there before and didn't like it, we don't like their laws like gun control or something like that, or a tax reason. Wisconsin is on our list for a bunch of reasons but one of them is I grew up there.
I know this is way more information than what is needed to answer my question but sometimes context helps.
Want to thank you in expressing your problems in great detail, because sometimes for a person with your issues it is very hard to convey to another person or a another organization, especially a government organization because they have not been there and done that.
I would like to give you some insight of my impressions on some of your issues if not all. In an attempt to comment on your expressed issues I will number them so that if you should happen to reply we can refer to that number that you're speaking to.
1.
In your statement you said that you shifting through my medical records that are half paper and half electronic.
My thoughts: the equipment I would recommend you purchase is a small scanner Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300, which is a portable scanner and is very reliable (I have used this type of scanner for over 10 years when I would have to go out to the clients home and scan all other documents into my laptop computer. I would recommend you go to the Fujitsu website and review all the details on this type of scanner. Not to mention it will scan any piece of paper like a check or to the size of a legal size document.
You must have a reliable computer with up-to-date operating system software on, then you should download (at no cost to you) a free program called Adobe Reader DC and install it on your computer if you have not done so already.
If you purchased items the way I do, then I would search for the scanner that I had mentioned above and possibly order it from a online vendor.
From the moment that you received this reply until you receive your scanner I would recommend that you work on organizing your paper files by doctor last name or medical facilitie business name, and then by date of the report. This should take some time I would imagine.
Next, once you receive your scanner,install the software on your computer and then do a few test drives on scanning any document to get comfortable on the scanning process.
In the scanning software you will note that you can make file cabinets and under file cabinets you can make folders in which to put your scanned documents.
In my experience I would think you would only need to open one file cabinet in which you could open one folder under the doctor's last name or the business name of any medical facility.
So let's say that you scan in your computer 50 or hundred pages from one doctor . You will note the scanner will scan the document and make it a readable PDF form . Each different dated form you scan in (like under Dr. Smith, report date would be 12/15/14, three pages).
(If you do not know the history of scanning documents and making them readable PDF files, I will share this with you. 1. By making them a readable file you can then search the PDF file (regardless how many pages it is) with a search word, like for example the word "shot or inoculation") because you are trying to find out in this folder of Dr. Smith for some reason you want to find out all the various shots or inoculations that he had given you. So by using the search words of shot then the Adobe software will search the entire document for the word shot and then you can click through each incident where the Adobe software finds the word shot or in our example here the word inoculation.
So you can see the benefits of scanning all your pre-organized documents under and placing them in a folder by doctors names, you will be able to find each time the word shot or inoculation is represented throughout the document.
In your particular situation I would open up one file named " All medical files" and then you can copy all of your paper files in this one large file, so this file would represent any Doctor and any medical facility that you have been in for the words in our example above ," shot or inoculation" as you can see which I believe will assist you greatly in managing all of your paperwork by the use of a computer, scanner and Adobe software.
And now for the CD-ROMs that various doctors and medical facilities have given you over the years of your medical care.
I would want to say the files that you have seen on the CD-ROMs are really documents, x-rays, drawings etc. which would be in PDF file format, which which is compatible and can be transferred to your computer scan paper documents.
So what you have accomplished is: 1. Having all your medical files in one place on your computer whether they had been paper documents at one time or on the CD-ROM. As you had made folders for the various doctors and medical facilities you can copy CD-ROM files into the folders on your computer. But be aware, you should copy the CD-ROM files into your "All medical files" first and then copy that particular doctors or medical facilities files into their respective file name on your computer.
Now, you're asking yourself what does this do for me (remembering the thought of how do I manage all of this paperwork and CD-ROMs and this and that to my benefit) in our example above about researching the word "shot or inoculation"
In a doctors file folder or a medical facility folder, you can search for the search words as stated above.
In the file folder "All medical files" you can search every medical file for (our example) search words and then you can find every time and in all your medical records. (I do not know how fast your computer can process the search words through all the PDF readable documents that you have.
This is where a little creative thinking comes into play, you have to use a small search word and not a complete phrase, you'll find out the complete phrase will cost you considerable computer time as it looks for exactly what you put in the search box, whereas a one word search is a lot faster for you to locate where the word is that you have identified to search for.
From my experience in owning and operating a income tax business had to do with the lot of clients over 38 years of keeping track of clients information, the processing of that information, the following up of missing information from the client and then incorporating the clients information on to federal income tax returns that are formatted by the Internal Revenue Service and the same process or similar process would be applicable in which the taxpayer lived.
I don't think there's enough money in developing the software and the continuous updates that would be required by the federal government to stay up with all of the changing administration type laws that Congress can think up, plus all the regulations that are various branches of services have put upon this process to apply to make a successful CRSC claim. If so, some smart attorney who makes tons of money all ready would have jumped on this a long time ago.
As for your indifferences with mankind because your nationality or your heritage it's okay to be upset in our current situation of being a live person in the real world that does not give a si- about us veterans.
I'm an old Crouch Dude myself.
Good luck on your mission, because I know it's achievable!
I would like to give you some insight of my impressions on some of your issues if not all. In an attempt to comment on your expressed issues I will number them so that if you should happen to reply we can refer to that number that you're speaking to.
1.
In your statement you said that you shifting through my medical records that are half paper and half electronic.
My thoughts: the equipment I would recommend you purchase is a small scanner Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300, which is a portable scanner and is very reliable (I have used this type of scanner for over 10 years when I would have to go out to the clients home and scan all other documents into my laptop computer. I would recommend you go to the Fujitsu website and review all the details on this type of scanner. Not to mention it will scan any piece of paper like a check or to the size of a legal size document.
You must have a reliable computer with up-to-date operating system software on, then you should download (at no cost to you) a free program called Adobe Reader DC and install it on your computer if you have not done so already.
If you purchased items the way I do, then I would search for the scanner that I had mentioned above and possibly order it from a online vendor.
From the moment that you received this reply until you receive your scanner I would recommend that you work on organizing your paper files by doctor last name or medical facilitie business name, and then by date of the report. This should take some time I would imagine.
Next, once you receive your scanner,install the software on your computer and then do a few test drives on scanning any document to get comfortable on the scanning process.
In the scanning software you will note that you can make file cabinets and under file cabinets you can make folders in which to put your scanned documents.
In my experience I would think you would only need to open one file cabinet in which you could open one folder under the doctor's last name or the business name of any medical facility.
So let's say that you scan in your computer 50 or hundred pages from one doctor . You will note the scanner will scan the document and make it a readable PDF form . Each different dated form you scan in (like under Dr. Smith, report date would be 12/15/14, three pages).
(If you do not know the history of scanning documents and making them readable PDF files, I will share this with you. 1. By making them a readable file you can then search the PDF file (regardless how many pages it is) with a search word, like for example the word "shot or inoculation") because you are trying to find out in this folder of Dr. Smith for some reason you want to find out all the various shots or inoculations that he had given you. So by using the search words of shot then the Adobe software will search the entire document for the word shot and then you can click through each incident where the Adobe software finds the word shot or in our example here the word inoculation.
So you can see the benefits of scanning all your pre-organized documents under and placing them in a folder by doctors names, you will be able to find each time the word shot or inoculation is represented throughout the document.
In your particular situation I would open up one file named " All medical files" and then you can copy all of your paper files in this one large file, so this file would represent any Doctor and any medical facility that you have been in for the words in our example above ," shot or inoculation" as you can see which I believe will assist you greatly in managing all of your paperwork by the use of a computer, scanner and Adobe software.
And now for the CD-ROMs that various doctors and medical facilities have given you over the years of your medical care.
I would want to say the files that you have seen on the CD-ROMs are really documents, x-rays, drawings etc. which would be in PDF file format, which which is compatible and can be transferred to your computer scan paper documents.
So what you have accomplished is: 1. Having all your medical files in one place on your computer whether they had been paper documents at one time or on the CD-ROM. As you had made folders for the various doctors and medical facilities you can copy CD-ROM files into the folders on your computer. But be aware, you should copy the CD-ROM files into your "All medical files" first and then copy that particular doctors or medical facilities files into their respective file name on your computer.
Now, you're asking yourself what does this do for me (remembering the thought of how do I manage all of this paperwork and CD-ROMs and this and that to my benefit) in our example above about researching the word "shot or inoculation"
In a doctors file folder or a medical facility folder, you can search for the search words as stated above.
In the file folder "All medical files" you can search every medical file for (our example) search words and then you can find every time and in all your medical records. (I do not know how fast your computer can process the search words through all the PDF readable documents that you have.
This is where a little creative thinking comes into play, you have to use a small search word and not a complete phrase, you'll find out the complete phrase will cost you considerable computer time as it looks for exactly what you put in the search box, whereas a one word search is a lot faster for you to locate where the word is that you have identified to search for.
From my experience in owning and operating a income tax business had to do with the lot of clients over 38 years of keeping track of clients information, the processing of that information, the following up of missing information from the client and then incorporating the clients information on to federal income tax returns that are formatted by the Internal Revenue Service and the same process or similar process would be applicable in which the taxpayer lived.
I don't think there's enough money in developing the software and the continuous updates that would be required by the federal government to stay up with all of the changing administration type laws that Congress can think up, plus all the regulations that are various branches of services have put upon this process to apply to make a successful CRSC claim. If so, some smart attorney who makes tons of money all ready would have jumped on this a long time ago.
As for your indifferences with mankind because your nationality or your heritage it's okay to be upset in our current situation of being a live person in the real world that does not give a si- about us veterans.
I'm an old Crouch Dude myself.
Good luck on your mission, because I know it's achievable!
One thing that you have mentioned, is that you have difficulties with activities of daily living (ADLs), and that your wife commits a great deal of her time assisting those needs, which interferes with here ability to perform substantial gainful employment.
The VA has a the "VA Family Caregiver Program". https://www.caregiver.va.gov/support/support_benefits.asp Which may be able to assist your family financially.
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/resources/Caregiver_Eligibility_Check.asp
Here is the application: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-10CG.pdf
We got an army DISC that was "passing through" help us get Aid and Assistance added. Every little bit helps, right? That's all we got, we don't know of any other benefits that apply to us.