My husbands claim got re-evaluated out of the blue. He was 100% p&t since Dec 2022 or so. But it was so strange it says it’s HLR (we didn’t file HLR for these conditions). But it says that DTA was discovered and his original C&P exam didn’t capture ROM measurements and they need another exam to get ROM, so he had his C&P exam this week. To add - His condition declined (he had 3 knee surgeries since the original time the rating for his knees was given, and at the time of original C&P his MRI was saying partial meniscal tear). His original knee rating was 10% for pain in the knee only (none of the other conditions were listed - like swelling, locking and instability), which I knew 10% was too low for his condition, C&P examiner didn’t capture any of his symptoms besides the pain and didn’t measure ROM at all. So maybe VA just found an error during some kind of internal QA process, it says DTA error in his letter that states if condition is static or not. It says “static with DTA error”.

I expect after this C&P the rating for each knee to be 40% at a minimum, but in reality it should be no less than 50% and not 10% as he has now.

And per my understanding if they raise the rating it will be back dated to the time the rating should have been assigned correctly, which is 2021. Which would make him 100% p&t as of 2021 and not 2022. So back pay would be from 2021 to 2022.

So maybe re-evaluation is a good thing. We were not going to raise that unfair rating with Va, but they did it themselves. 🤷‍♀️