Veterans’ Benefits Qualifying Course (On Demand Seminar)

MCLE Credits: 3.0
Ethics Credits Included: 0.0

MCLE Credit:	3.0 (Ethics: 0.0)
Live-Interactive Credit:	0.0
Price:	$189 (Includes a downloadable audio version.)
Viewable Through:	08/31/2023

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A pre-recorded streaming video replay of the July 2020 webcast, Veterans’ Benefits Qualifying Course.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Millions of veterans and their families are eligible for veterans’ benefits but do not take advantage of them. Why? Many reasons, including confusion over the benefits available, eligibility requirements, and the complexity of the application process itself.

New practice opportunity: Expand your practice to include representation of veterans
Help veterans and their families get benefits to which they are entitled
Get plenty of “how you do what, when” interspersed with practical tips

Become familiar with the Department of Veterans Affairs system and the types of claims that commonly require your assistance. Plus learn about and understand the new Administrative Management Act that changed the appeal process beginning in February 2019.

Help veterans and their families get benefits to which they are entitled, including:

Dependency and Indemnity Compensation
Disability Compensation
Employment and Training
Parents’ Dependency and Indemnity Compensation
Special Monthly Compensation
Survivor Benefits
Veterans Health Care
Veterans Life Insurance
Burial and Memorial
Death Pension

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

Representation Before the Department of Veterans Affairs

What are the requirements to become accredited?
When can you represent a claimant?
How can you get paid (attorney fees)?

Claims Procedures

How to file a claim
Where to get the proper forms
How the VA is organized

Basic Eligibility for VA Benefits

Who qualifies as a “veteran”?
Which dependents can seek benefits?

Right to Appeal

How to appeal (deadlines, where to file)
Review by the Board of Veterans’ Appeals
- Reconsiderations
- Motion to vacate
- Appeal to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- Steps after the Court of Appeals

Disability Compensation

Requirements for service connection
Special rules for PTSD, radiation exposure, chronic disease, Agent Orange, tropical diseases
Evaluation of service-connect disabilities
Extra scheduler ratings when the disability doesn’t fit the Schedule for Rating Disabilities
Unemployability benefits
Effective dates for granted benefits
Common mistakes

Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (“Widow’s Compensation”)

Eligibility
Requirements

Pensions

Eligibility
Income limitations

Health Care

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Daniel G. Krasnegor, Goodman Allen Donnelly / Charlottesville

Daniel Krasnegor joined Goodman Allen Donnelly as a partner, January 1, 2008, as the lead attorney in the Veterans’ Benefits Practice Group, with more than ten years of experience in veterans’ benefits law. Following graduation from law school in 1993, Mr. Krasnegor started his career drafting decisions for the Veterans Law Judges at the Board of Veterans' Appeals and then defending Board decisions in the VA General Counsel's office. In 1998, Mr. Krasnegor left the VA in order to work for veterans and their dependents by forming a Veterans’ Benefits section in one of the largest defense law firms in Virginia. Since that time, he has represented hundreds of veterans before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and at the VA. Mr. Krasnegor served as a member of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Rules Advisory Committee from 2001 to 2007 and is a founding member of the Court of Appeals for the Veterans Claims Bar Association. He has frequently lectured to both lawyers and veterans about the practice of veterans’ benefits law.