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Choose conditions and describe their relationship to service. Your current claim's conditions remain under Conditions.
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YOUR CLAIM WORKSPACE
Where I am: Not set
Chosen by you—not live VA claim status.
Changing this choice saves your label. It does not change your claim type, next step or saved work.
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Start another claimGETTING STARTED
What are you preparing?
Choose the preparation that fits what you want to work on. Opening a choice does not convert this saved claim or change its conditions.
You can also label where you are with this claim. It is optional and can change later.
A service-connected condition has worsened
Use the existing increase preparation: changes over time, symptoms, limitations, treatment and the saved material you choose.
Prepare an increasePrepare to revisit a decision
Use the existing supplemental preparation to organize the decision, disputed issues and evidence. This does not choose a review option for you.
Prepare a supplemental claimRead about supplemental claimsCODES & DIAGNOSES
From your medical record to a useful finding
Look up a medical code, record the exact entry and its source, or import findings from a records-folder scan. A code match is a research cross-reference—not a diagnosis, rating or service-connection decision.
Already saved to this claim
Your recorded diagnoses, codes and other findings, including entries without a code. These are the same records shown in Evidence & records—not separate copies.
Enter a diagnosis or finding
No code required. Keep the words from your record, the document name, page and date, then choose the condition it belongs to.
Scan a large records folder
The offline extractor helps locate codes in files on your device. Review its results, export the report, then import the entries you choose.
Open the records extractor (new tab)Look up codes here
Pasted text is sent to this server for lookup. Paste codes rather than personal details. Nothing is saved just by looking up a code.
Use “Record this entry” on a result to review and save it to this claim. Looking up a match does not add a claimed condition.
Full code reference & explanations (new tab)Check this claim over
The Readiness Check walks the claim and tells you what is still blank. It is not a score, not a prediction, and it does not decide anything.
Possible ways each condition may be connected to service
Choose every path that may apply. This organizes your claim; it does not decide eligibility, and choosing one path does not prevent the VA from considering another. The claim's own Direct or Secondary relationship is changed under Edit conditions, not here.
The conditions on this claim
Add or remove a condition, change its side or location, or revise its Direct/Secondary relationship. You will review the changes before saving. If connected work is affected, you choose where it goes; the saved items themselves are not deleted.
PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
One claim. Your work, in context.
You do not have to follow these sections in order. Choose what you need today; the same saved work stays connected to this claim.
My next step, chosen by me
What is on this claim
EVIDENCE & RECORDS
The work connected to this claim
Filter by condition or type, open an existing item, or add one below. Medication, status and surgery notes are kept in Additional tracked details.
Saved work
Add to this claim
Each of these opens the same form you use elsewhere on the site. Nothing is saved until you choose Save.
Record findings
Exact entries and source locations you recorded from your medical files, by hand or from an extractor report you chose to import. The files themselves stay on your device.
Records I'm waiting for
Keep track of what you need, what you requested, and what arrived.
These are your tracking notes. Requests are sent through the source's own process; nothing here sends one.
Important dates
Dates you wrote down yourself. Nothing here is worked out for you, and no date is a legal deadline.
Reference cases
Cases you saved for research and discussion with your representative. A saved case is your own research note, not evidence, and Board decisions are not binding precedent.
Additional tracked details
Medication, status and surgery, in your own words, from memory. Each one is offered in C&P Exam Prep under the box it belongs in, for the conditions you connect it to.
Nothing here is checked against a record, and nothing is written for you.
DBQs & EXAM PREPARATION
Use the information you already gathered
Notes for your own C&P exam, in your words. These are preparation notes, never the official DBQ, and nothing here is sent to the VA or to an examiner.
- Review the applicable DBQs. The preparation checklist lists applicable forms for each condition. Keep the official DBQ separate from your personal notes.
- Connect your saved work. Record findings, diagnoses, medications, surgery/status notes and worksheets must be connected to the appropriate claim and condition.
- Choose what to bring into your notes. In Exam Prep, review the available saved information under each supported field and explicitly choose what to use. Nothing should silently replace what you wrote.
- Review your preparation. Keep the source and context, describe your actual experience and use the existing save, privacy and print controls.
Build a copy to print or take with you
You choose what goes in, and you review it before it prints. Leaving something out does not delete it.
This packet brings together saved findings, worksheets, requests, dates, statements and reference cases. Exam Prep notes and tracked medication, status and surgery details use the separate Exam Prep copy.
When you are ready
Opening a link below changes nothing saved here and does not file anything.
Remove this claim
Your saved worksheets, record findings, records requests, important dates, statements and reference cases stay in your account. Only this claim and its connections go. It does not withdraw anything from the VA.
Your account library
Your statements, tracked details and saved guidance belong to your account, not to any one claim. Connect any of them to a claim from its own row.
Statements
Your own personal statement, or a draft for a witness to review, in your own words. Nothing here writes one for you.
Additional tracked details
Medication, status and surgery, in your own words, from memory. Each one is offered in C&P Exam Prep under the box it belongs in, for the conditions you connect it to.
Nothing here is checked against a record, and nothing is written for you.
My condition has gotten worse
Organize your own notes and the records you already saved for a condition that is service connected and has worsened. Nothing here files anything or decides whether you should.
Preparations not attached to a saved claim
These hold your own notes. They stay here whether or not the claim they started on is still saved.
Saved guidance
Help pages you saved that are not condition claims. Each one resumes exactly where you left it.
Saved BDD countdowns
Open the BDD calculator →Readiness checks not associated with a current saved claim
Saved Letters
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