Q201: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q202: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q203: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q205: True or False: A surviving spouse has income, including Social Security benefits, that make her income for VA purposes just within the maximum annual Pension rate. There is a cost-of-living increase in Social Security rates that raises her income for VA purposes over the maximum pension rate for the year. There is no change in any other income amount. This increase in income causes the surviving spouse to lose entitlement to Pension.§3.271 *
Q208: True or False: VA records concerning a deceased veteran may not under any circumstances be disclosed to the veteran's widow, children, or next of kin if such disclosure will not be injurious to the physical or mental health of the person in whose behalf information is sought or cause repugnance or resentment toward the decedent§1.503 *
Q209: True or False: Unless prohibited otherwise, an individual has a right to review his or her records on file with VA in accompaniment with another person of that individual's choosing.§1.577 *
Q210: True or False: When VA notifies a beneficiary that an award for benefits will be discontinued or reduced because of a change in law, the beneficiary has 60 days in which to submit additional evidence before the reduction or discontinuance may go into effect.§3.500 *
Q211: A veteran has been in receipt of Disability Compensation for 21 years for a condition rated 20% disabling. Which of the following statements is true? §3.951 *
Q212: True or False: Gambling losses for the last two years may be deducted from the current year's winnings for the purpose of reducing the claimant's income for VA purposes.§3.272 *
Q213: True or False: Willful misconduct will only be used as grounds for denying benefits if it is the proximate cause of injury, disease or death.§3.1 *
Q214: True or False: A deceased veteran's parents are in receipt of parent's DIC. The veteran's father dies of complications of surgery, and the mother wins a settlement of $40,000 for wrongful death from the hospital. By the time she pays attorney fees, the costs of obtaining independent medical experts, and other costs arising from the lawsuit, she realizes less than $1,000 net income from the lawsuit. She can claim the costs of the lawsuit as a deduction from her income for VA purposes.§3.25 *
Q215: True or False: A surviving spouse is receiving Survivors (Death) Pension. She has two minor children for whom she is also receiving monthly Social Security death benefit payments. If she can prove that the Social Security death benefits for her children are necessary for reasonable family maintenance expenses, she does not have to include their income for Pension.§3.23 *
Q216: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q217: Which of the following is true concerning the presumption for Disability Compensation service connection that a veteran was in sound condition when examined, accepted and enrolled for service? §3.304 *
Q218: True or False: The presumption does not apply to defects, infirmities, or disorders noted on the examination for acceptance and enrollment in service. *
Q219: True or False: A veteran suffers from two disabilities, each rated individually as 50% disabling. The veterans combined disability rating is calculated by adding together the 50% rating for each disability (50% + 50% = 100%). The veteran is considered totally disabled and a 100% rating is assigned.§4.25 *
Q220: True or False: Where a veteran receiving Compensation or Pension dies after December 31, 1996, the surviving spouse, if not entitled to Death Compensation, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, or Death Pension for the month of death, shall be entitled to a benefit for that month in an amount equal to the amount of Compensation or Pension the veteran would have received for that month but for his or her death.§3.20 *
Q221: The veteran had an application for Pension pending and VA had all the information necessary to make a favorable decision but the veteran died before a decision was rendered. Which of the following is true? §3.20 (b) *
Q222: True or False: Satisfactory lay 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.§3.304 *
Q223: True or False: The claimant or beneficiary and his or her representative will be notified by the most effective method of communication of decisions affecting the payment of benefits or granting relief.§3.103 *
Q224: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q225: True or False: If a veteran who is receiving Compensation fails to make a required copayment for VA medical care, the amount of that co-payment may be withheld from the veteran's Compensation payments.§1.912a *
Q226: True or False: Total disability will be considered to exist when there is present any impairment of mind or body which is sufficient to render it impossible for the average person to follow a substantially gainful occupation. Total disability may or may not be permanent. Total ratings will not be assigned, generally, for temporary exacerbations or acute infectious diseases except where specifically prescribed by the schedule.§3.340 *
Q228: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q231: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q232: True or False: The VA rating authority can only make a determination on incompetency based on clear and convincing medical evidence; otherwise no determination will be made and the veteran will be considered competent.§3.353 *
Q233: When VA asks a claimant to provide evidence or information needed to decide a claim, the claimant is asked to submit such evidence or information within thirty (30) days. What action(s) will VA take if the claimant does not provide the requested evidence or information until six months later? §3.159 *
Q235: True or False: Due to a clerical error, a veteran's Compensation payments are erroneously directly deposited into the account of another person, who is not a veteran or any other class of VA beneficiary. This debt for the non-veteran person can be waived.§1.963a *
Q236: True or False: If a waiver of indebtedness is granted on a Loan Guaranty case, this restores the claimant's entitlement to future loan guaranty benefits.§1.911a *
Q237: True or False: A veteran in receipt of 20% SC Compensation is convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery, and is sentenced to 6 months in the county jail. His Compensation payments are subject to reduction because of this.§3.665 *
Q238: True or False: A surviving spouse in receipt of Survivors (Death) Pension is convicted of shoplifting and is sentenced to 6 months in the county jail. Her Pension is subject to reduction or termination because of this.§3.666 *
Q240: True or False: Special monthly compensation can be paid under Schedule (I) when it is determined that a veteran is so helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance and under Schedule (s) when it is determined that a veteran is housebound.§3.350 *