Instructions To Va Form 4107, Your Rights To Appeal Our Decision (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

A private attorney or an "agent" can also represent you. VA only recognizes attorneys who are

licensed to practice in the United States or in one of its territories or possessions. Your local bar

association may be able to refer you to an attorney with experience in veterans' law. An agent is a

person who is not a lawyer, but who VA recognizes as being knowledgeable about veterans' law.

Do I have to pay someone to help me with my appeal? It depends on who helps you. The following

explains the differences.

Veterans Service Organizations will represent you for free.

Attorneys or agents can charge you for helping you under some circumstances. Paying their fees for

helping you with your appeal is your responsibility. If you do hire an attorney or agent to represent

you, one of you must send a copy of any fee agreement to the following address within 30 days from

the date the agreement is executed: Office of the General Counsel (022D), 810 Vermont Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20420. See 38 C.F.R. 14.636(g). If the fee agreement provides for the direct

payment of fees out of past-due benefits, a copy of the agreement must also be filed with us at the

address included on our decision notice letter. See 38 C.F.R. 14.636(h)(4).

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You can send us more evidence to support a claim whether or not you choose to appeal.

NOTE: Please direct all new evidence to the address included on our decision notice letter. You should not

send evidence directly to the Board at this time. You should only send evidence to the Board if you decide

to complete an appeal and, then, you should only send evidence to the Board after you receive written

notice from the Board that they received your appeal.

If you have more evidence to support a claim, it is in your best interest to give us that evidence as soon as you

can. We will consider your evidence and let you know whether it changes our decision. Please keep in mind

that we can only consider new evidence that: (1) we have not already seen and (2) relates to your claim. You

may give us this evidence either in writing or at a personal hearing with your local VA office.

In writing. To support your claim, you may send documents and written statements to us at the address

included on our decision notice letter. Tell us in a letter how these documents and statements should change

our earlier decision.

At a personal hearing. You may request a hearing with an employee at your local VA office at any time,

whether or not you choose to appeal. We do not require you to have a local hearing. It is your choice. At this

hearing, you may speak, bring witnesses to speak on your behalf, and hand us written evidence. If you want a

local hearing, send us a letter asking for a local hearing. Use the address included on our decision notice

letter. We will then:

Arrange a time and place for the hearing

Provide a room for the hearing

Assign someone to hear your evidence

Make a written record of the hearing

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We will review any new evidence, including the record of the local hearing, if you choose to have one,

together with the evidence we already have. We will then decide if we can grant your claim. If we cannot

grant your claim and you complete an appeal, we will send the new evidence and the record of any local

hearing to the Board.

SUPERSEDES VA FORM 4107, FEB 2015,

BACK OF VA FORM 4107, JUN 2015

WHICH WILL NOT BE USED.

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