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Dear Jae,
I worked in the garden all day today and did not get a chance to nap or to search for information. But I did dig a couple items from my files that might help to answer the question of how Vietnam veterans with presumptive AO disorders are paid.
The attached decision copy is the VA decision in my case. It contains explanations of how and when disability percentages were decided and paid. I was shocked to receive this, and I had to read it several times before I realized that I was actually going to receive real money. To scale such payments to the ROK economy, $1300 per month is regarded as the national average poverty level. In many places in the USA $1300/mo. is not enough to live. In Los Angeles or San Francisco $1300 might not be enough to pay for rent or the mortgage payment for a house.
Here in rural Oregon, a person could get by on $1300/mo. Without much difficulty. So rating me at 100% with pay at more than twice that much means that we have no worries for the rest of our lives. TheNehmer attachment is a legal explanation of how I got my tractor and my wife got her new car. Nehmer was a veteran who won a court case for Agent Orange damages in which the government was ordered to pay him disability back pay from the time he first reported the disorder to the VA in 1985. So now the VA applies the Nehmer decision to all disabled veterans with presumptive AO disorders. I had a heart attack in 1994 (and used VA doctors and medications), so they started my disability back pay in 1994. I am not sure how they processed the percentage ratings, but it amounted to a big sum of money. They didn¡¯t tell me it was coming. I looked in my bank account to see if I had enough money left to haul loads of trash to the dump, and there was $118,000. We thought that the bank made a mistake, and it took a few days before we worked up the confidence to spend some of it.
I did not expect any of this. One day my VA doctor sent me to a "Nehmer exam." I answered some questions for about an hour. Then after a few months I received this award. I would be hard for me to explain what another Vietnam veteran would have to do to get such an award. I didn¡¯t have to do anything. I hope this helps. I will continue to search for information as time allows.
Semper Fi,
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