COMPENSATION RECEIVED

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After 16 months, a Review Hearing (which reversed the Claim Denied status of my compensation claim to 5/5ths fault of my service), I finally got compensation for Carpul Tunnel Syndrome. I got the standard 5 percent.

I was also compensated for Anxiety (Major Depressive Order) after my Doctor, against Canadian Forces Health Services Group policy, forwarded my state of affairs to Veterans Affairs. When you consider most of the increase in my depression and anxiety was due to the run around I was getting from Veterans Affairs in the first place, I think the compensation was fair.

I probably would not have applied for either of these two conditions had Veterans Affairs dealt with my serious claims of Hypertension and Stroke in the first place, it only stands to reason that they could have saved themselves some extra time and money by dealing with our soldiers and veterans properly the first time. Instead, they refused to take the time to contact my doctor because they knew Military Doctors were ordered not to assist our soldiers with compensation claims.

Now I need the other two very serious, career ending, compensation claims dealt with. I have already been approved to receive SISIP (Manulife disability) and Canada Pension Plan (CPP) which in itself is almost impossible to get, but both applications are done by the Military Doctor, unlike Veterans Affairs who are happy to receive as little information as possible in order to deny claims and make the soldier/veteran work through the quagmire to red tape that they wrap our benefits in.

Keep fighting troops, to lay down and surrender when victory is this close at hand would be a disgrace to our uniform and our proud military tradition, not to mention those have fallen before us.

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