The National Veterans Legal Project in Washington DC has joined the ranks of the
CVA and VA by putting up a storefront operation that essentially rides on the backs of veterans while at the same time not doing much at all for them.

They were originally rumored around the country to be the nations answer to a law firm with lawyers to do cases. As soon as they received their non-profit status, they converted themselves into a publishing company and they
haven't done much beyond that since.
While they do put out a form and web page allowing veterans to ask for a lawyer there, as somebody who has personally begged, pleaded, and even threatened them for entire decades to put a lawyer on my SCC case, they are yet one more empty, whining, excuse factory as to why they won't or can't get anything done.

Originally started by Ron Abrams, a former
VA BVA Judge himself, I have talked to Ron a few times on the phone as his son now attends
college here in the New York area and he sometimes visits veterans circles here.

Ron is with the NVLSP and also works with the
Veterans Pro Bono Consortium and both are in Washington.

The NVLSP website now steers all veterans and lawyers over to the Consortium, which has its
own truckload of dysfunctions which will be covered in a separate article in this Forum.

There are no licensed lawyers conveniently
available for immediate hookup to veterans
who are hopelessly trapped in the infinite loop of VARO and BVA, and therein lies the torture
in this thing.

I emerged from 2 months in the VA Critical Care ward on life-support, had a surgery the size of
an autopsy that had cut all of my upper chest muscles, and the emergency welfare office was
threatening to cut me off of my only food stamp supply on a weekly basis if I did not move my
case over either to VA or Social Security disability. NVSLP's missing-in-action do nothingism forced me as a new surgical patient and still bedridden, to endlessly go on a daily
basis to my public library to study federal law
so that I could fight VARO alone by myself as
my chest was still raw only a few days out from having surgical staples removed. All this time
later, I still have no VA benefits.

I won my SSD by screaming at the Judge and lifting up my shirt slightly exposing my midrift, almost causing the SSD stenographer to pass out cold on the floor.

The problem with NVLSP is that they are too
far disconnected from the results of their actions. They think in their pea-sized brains that riding on the backs of veterans fame, and then running nothing but a publishing company
is somehow innocuous and without harm. They just don't get it that they are part of the VA
death factory causing enough harm and strain
on individual cases to bring about premature death to our veterans. They don't make the connection to human torture that is suffered when they first say that they provide lawyers, and then don't --- and then try to sell us a pile of overpriced and obsoleted books right in
our time of need.

Even more disturbing, the multi-volume book
series that they publish, The Veterans Benefits
Manual, is yours for 3 times the price of your
own government copy of the Code Of Regulations which is what REALLY is needed for CVA appeals.
The CFR is all that you need and the Veterans
Appeals Reporter which is at any local public
library for case citations.

The Benefits Manual published by NVLSP is
more wrong than right and never speaks to the
judicial corruption in the VA, and in no way
even matches how the VA operates claims today.
The Benefits Manual either speaks to how the
claims arena USED TO BE, or it speaks to how
the claims arena OUGHT TO BE --- but new attornies coming in and attending their course
will only receive malpracticed CRAP from NVLSP
and it's a vicious cycle that never ends.
The Manual does little more than paraphrase
that which is already in the Code of Federal Regulations and not much else. It's a book about Parrot-Heading. You and I could do as much on our own!

We the veterans of America need to unite and shut down this storefront operation.

They have put out a phoney title to begin with
to give out the false public impression that somehow they are providing attornies to us.
THEY AREN'T. They are another non-profit fraud scheme that could be closed tomorrow and not make a single difference in the lives of U.S.
veterans. There are other ones out there too,
but the National Veterans Legal Services Project is at the top of the heap in fraud in deception. Their website is at http://www.nvlsp.org
and you can tell them there to shut up and go home --- we don't need a "publishing" company
who is making the VA look legitimate on disability claims when it really isn't.

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