{"product_id":"the-complete-va-disability-claim-playbook-a-veteran-to-veteran-guide-to-building-filing-and-winning-your-claim","title":"The Complete VA Disability Claim Playbook: A Veteran-to-Veteran Guide to Building, Filing, and Winning Your Claim","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1987, I walked out of a VA office with a 0% rating and a piece of advice that cost me years of compensation: you can't appeal. You just have to live with it.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n I didn't go back for a long time. I didn't think it was worth trying.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Eventually, a fellow veteran sat me down and explained how the system actually worked. I filed again — the right way — and reached 100%. Since then I have helped dozens of other veterans do the same.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Ethan Reed, my co-author, came from a different road into the same fight. He is a combat veteran of the 75th Ranger Regiment whose service-connected conditions were formally recognized by the Army's own Medical Evaluation Board before he left uniform. He received a 100% VA disability rating through the military medical retirement process — the institution itself acknowledged what his service cost him.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Nobody handed us a roadmap. This book is that roadmap.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n A practical, plain-English workbook that covers:\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n How the VA rating system actually works — and why the math never adds up the way you expect The three elements every claim must have — and how to build all three before you file Secondary conditions, presumptive claims, and the strategies most veterans never discover How to prepare for the C\u0026amp;P exam — the appointment where most claims are won or lost How to read a denial letter, choose the right appeal lane, and win the second time around How to build toward 100% over time — with a long-term strategy, not just a one-time filing Every chapter includes a full-page workbook exercise — fill-in worksheets, checklists, and planning tools designed to turn knowledge into action. This is not a book you read and set aside. It is a book you work through, write in, and bring to every appointment.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Written veteran-to-veteran. Designed for the veteran who is done leaving benefits on the table.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Michael Westcott\u003cbr\u003e\n U.S. Army Combat Engineer Desert Storm Veteran 100% Service-Disabled Veteran\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Ethan Reed\u003cbr\u003e\n Combat Veteran, 75th Ranger Regiment 100% Service-Disabled Veteran\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":51122598707447,"sku":"YSL10226","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/4254\/8727\/files\/ebook_10226_2b2310f1f8.jpg?v=1788745096","url":"https:\/\/kidobook.store\/products\/the-complete-va-disability-claim-playbook-a-veteran-to-veteran-guide-to-building-filing-and-winning-your-claim","provider":"KidoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}