Claims

VA Home Health Care sent the Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) a request to contact a Vietnam era Army veteran in the lower Rio Grande Valley, who was receiving assistance from VA Home Health Care. The contact was requested as the veteran had not yet filed a VA disability compensation Claim and would need assistance to do so.

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A Corpus Christi area veteran’s condition made it necessary for his spouse to become his full-time caregiver. This left both the veteran and his wife without employment and eventually on the verge of bankruptcy and not knowing if they would be able to pay their bills.

The veteran had served in the Army National Guard from December 1982 to August 1987. He developed blood clots in his legs and lungs during active duty for training and was medically retired. In 2014, ...

In March 2023, a surviving spouse in Corpus Christi brought a VA Notification letter she had received advising of pension termination and possible debt to Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Claims Benefits Advisor and Navy veteran Santos “Mo” Molina.

He listened to her situation, set her mind at ease and began diligently researching her VA file and listing evidence needed to refute the debt and pension termination. The VA listed yearly information beginning from 2018 as what would become a significant debt ...

“I’ve been working on the Claim for one of my combat Marines who served two Iraq tours and one in Afghanistan. He had been getting denied any service connection at all for years,” said Ryan Halley, pictured, Marine Corps veteran and Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Claims Benefits Advisor (CBA). ...

“He made every objection from the VA a challenge and literally fought every battle with and for me. Without Adam’s assistance I would have been lost with all the required paperwork,” said Army veteran Robert Charles Bryant. “Adam not only helped me locate the medical records; he ensured that they were sent to the proper departments.”

Bryant’s compliments are for Young County Veteran Service Officer and Marine Corps veteran Adam J. LaVine. With just under a year on the job, having ...

Following the death of a San Patricio County Veteran in 2011, his surviving spouse applied for Dependency Indemnity Compensation on the basis of Metastatic Esophageal Cancer. “The claim was later denied where it remained until the surviving spouse appeared in our office in January 2023,” said San Patricio County ...

A Harlingen area Army veteran who served in Vietnam and Germany from Nov. 13, 1967 through Nov. 1, 1970 came to the Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) to file his initial Claim on May 1, 2013. “His Claim was for exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam,” said TVC Claims Benefit Advisor (CBA) and Army veteran Rene Coronado. “It was originally denied because the PACT Act was not yet in effect.”

A few years later, in January 2017, the veteran passed away, before ...

“Juan Amaya and his team just helped this surviving spouse get almost $820,000 in backpay!  Williamson County has the biggest awards I know of now for our team,” said Laura Bivens, pictured, Texas Veterans Commission Veteran County Service Officer Liaison and Army veteran.

The surviving spouse was assisted in securing the award by Williamson County Veterans ...

On February 14, 2023, Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Claims Benefits Advisor (CBA) and Navy veteran Danette Craig met with a Vietnam war Amy veteran who had recently moved to the College Station area from California. Upon learning the veteran was in poor health, living in a hotel and experiencing severe financial hardship, Craig requested a priority processing for the veteran’s Claims.  On February 27, the VA completed processing the veteran’s claim and awarded him over $306,600 in retro payment as ...

Closing Claims cases that were in limbo, helping veterans receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in awards, assisting with health care issues and handling Military Sexual Trauma cases make Garry Murphy “A one-man monetary award winning and life improvement making person out in Medina County,” said Mike Jaeger, Texas Veterans Commission’s Claims Department Southwest District Manager and Army veteran.

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