Do you know a good life insurance agent for disabled Veterans?

https://www.countyoffice.org/us-veterans-affairs-department-orlando-fl-ab4/

You'll want this....

https://www.va.gov/DIRECTORY/GUIDE/facility.asp?ID=553

And this....

One way you can do such stuff is that, from what we found, most term life stuff generally has the guaranteed type, allowed irrespective of clinical conditions in most instances....now, benefits, we'd found also, we limited with such policies, so, what we did was basically cobble together multiple such versions, AARP, e.g., has such a plan, most major insurance groups do, what you can also do is, if you join vet groups, like AMVETS, as you'd mentioned that you'd used them for your claim, they generally have such term life plans, in many instances, so, I'd most definitely ask them, we didn't go that way, we used other reputable plans we got ads for that we looked into, however, that was how we did it, at any rate, we're likely gonna try to get more, incl. the AARP one as well...there are also long-term care plans, incl. from AARP, that you should also look at, as well, just an added thought, OK? I'm here if you wanna yak more, once again, no rush....

And what he'd said about a multi-company broker, we have a friend who's doing that to make extra money now, he and his wife, they want us to go in with them for our cars, so we'd heard about that concept also, as well....

I'm only 80%.

What I'm going to say depends on whether or not you're able to work, obviously, however, when we had the vet group submit me initially, one of the guys there mentioned a concept I hadn't heard about at that point, called totally disabled individually unemployable (TDIU)...there's a class above that, I think, called total and permanent (T&P), which means a claim is never to be revisited, it's final, my stuff was major enough to justify that, though it took, as I'd said, six and half years for our NOVA guy to get it for us...also, once a 100% or the legal equivalent of it gets to the 10-yr. point, Congress has declared that they're statutorily 100%, which means that, aside from SSDI, which I'm also on, as is my wife, she's total disabled also, from NYS civil svc, one can basically do anything, incl. volunteering, which, before then, is actually quite restricted, I ran all that up a flagpole, and basically spoke with just about everybody imaginable...I'm (please God) to reach the 10-yr. point the end of next month, after which my wife would be permanently protected under a provision called dependent indemnity compensation (DIC), it has to be submitted for, however, that only needs a VA Form 21-534EZ...to be considered for TDIU or T&P, one needs, for a single approved clinical basis, a 60% or higher, or, in the case of multiple approved clinical bases, an aggregate of 70% or higher in total, with one, I believe, at least 40%...when we did my thing, we had to do the whole schmiel, notices of disagreement (NODs) to the VA Regional Ofc. (VARO), telling all three Congress ofcs. so they could watch what was going on, doing what's called a VARO-level decision review ofcr. (DRO) hearing, that can be done by a vet group, by an attorney, on paper, or requesting a hearing by the VARO staff...at one point, due to the VARO by us having been backed up, our claim for me was farmed out on referral to another VARO in another state, that's allowed, then it was eventually sent back with the claim file (C-file) for me (which was pretty humongous by that time, sevl. inches worth) to the VARO by us...after that, we had to do yet more VARO referrals to the VA hospital by us, more waiting, then we got the 50%, another NOD by the NOVA guy by that time, he'd also gone into see the VARO staff for the DRO we'd needed for me...to get the 50%, we had to do the Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) traveling team thing, where we went in with our NOVA guy, one of two pro-bono attorneys from a large major law group where we are, he'd gotten us that, as my thing was pretty involved, almost surreal, in fact, we saw a VA vet law judge (VLJ), all four of us, basically a Federal admin law judge (ALJ) under VA...more waiting, about a year, due to the backlog, that was when we got the 50%, then yet another NOD to do the appeal, more waiting, then, finally, after yet another final VA hospital clinical eval, the 100% (thank God)...the NOVA guy, both for the 50%, as well as the 100%, as well as adding my wife as VA dependent, got the legally allowed fourth or fifth of the back money, we'd only given him an initial $500 consult, believe me, we, esp. I, truly learned why God had invented attorneys, all cynicism aside, honest...so, all that being said, trust me, get one of the NOVA guys by you to go over your whole thing...all claims have a year to have activity, after which they're lost, as well as the original date of submission, though, regardless of how long it's been since your 80%, you can always have a resubmission done to be considered for upgrade, you'll likely have to go through all we did, plus, BVA also can be done on paper, aside from the traveling team thing we did, which is also done for discharge review boards (DRB), not that you need that, I'm just explaining, one can also ask for a video hearing with the whole BVA, entire, though our guy said the VLJ traveling team was was best, as it allows the most thorough one on one discussion...above the BVA, which has its own toll free phone line, I don't have it, though you can get it at the moment, I saved it, you can get it, of course, there's the Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims, a Wash, DC Federal court, that does in fact use mediation to try to settle claims, before actually taking them to the court, I'd been told, though we never had to go that high, obviously, thankfully...above that is the Circuit Court of Appeals, with either a three-judge panel, or the whole Circuit Court, in what is termed an en banc hearing...then, of course, is the Supreme Court, with the concept of a writ of certiorari needed to be submitted to the Clerk, though, of course, that's pure attorney stuff...now, all major vet groups have law firms attached to them, I've actually chatted with sevl attorneys with sevl law groups attached to sevl vet groups, they handle all CAVC, Circuit Court, and Supreme Court cases...I'm not saying you'd need to go that high, the BVA is as high as you can go in the VA, CAVC, Circuit Court, and Supreme Court, are all obviously above VA, of course, I was once again merely explaining...that's basically how the whole thing works, pretty much...I could probably elaborate some more, certainly, however, for the most part, that's the bulk of it, I assure you...when I'd been in clinical residency, I was allied health doctoral, we shut my license off when we did the whole disability thing for me, I trained at multiple VA hospitals, both in residency, as well as in clerkships while in grad school...so, between 3 yrs Army ROTC, USAF OTS after that, the 4 yrs USAF active, 5 yrs related industry after I'd gotten out, and all my VA stuff, aside from all my other clinical stuff, I've been around just about more bureaucratic blocks than God has streets, at this point...plus, we had to have me handle the attorneys for both of our SSDI claims, we've had worker-comp claims, my wife had a NYS ordinary-disability pension claim, and then all my VA stuff, so, while I'm obviously not an attorney, or a paralegal (God knows, I know my limits, I wouldn't want to be either, certainly), I've anecdotally absorbed a good deal of the bulk of such procedure, aside from having had clinical jurisprudence while I'd been doing my doctorate, taught by a physician who was also an attorney for a semester...I may not have seen quite everything, however, I've certainly by now seen most things one can possibly encounter with regard to such stuff, so, what I've given you is pretty much the bulk of my worm's-eye user's-end view, that my wife and I both saw for all of our stuff, God knows, I could probably deluge you with a flood tide of yet more procedural admin drivel, I expect, however, for the moment, that should be the bulk of what you'd need to fathom the entire thing, if you'd want to elaborate at all on your stuff, so far as you like, I'm here, send as much as you want, I'll try to give you any further thoughts that occur to me, no rush, whenever you want, OK?

I saw you do freelance writing, I gather, so, that being said, obviously, you're working...for that reason, I don't know how you or the NOVA guys would want to handle you, obviously...in any event, all the goodies here should at least be of use generally, and/or possibly later on, if nothing else, you know?

Is that anything like AmVets? I used AmVets to file my VA claim.

Read what I'd sent in above for the other thing you'd sent about the 80%...NOVA involves AMVETS as well as all the similar major vet groups, certainly, however, the bulk of their guys are attorneys, all VA approved, special approval is needed for an attorney to practice before VA...the law, I think, was changed, that, before the change, one, I believe, needed a vet group to submit a claim, then, if denied, one could take it to a VA-approved attorney...after the law change, I think that was when the law was relaxed, to allow claims to be actually started, per se, by attorneys, rather than merely taken over by them from a vet group, there was definitely something like that, I never quite looked into all of it, however, that was the bulk of my understanding of what had happened in that regard...you'll have to pay a consult, ours was $500, as I'd said above, trust me, the best money we ever spent, some of the NOVA attorneys are prior active, ours was, as I also said, with oodles of experience, more, sometimes, truly, than God, so in that regard we most definitely lucked out major big time...that being said, all of their attorneys, trust me, are well qualified, if you can find one with prior active, that'd obv be great, of course, though by no means an absolute necessity, certainly...there are also law school vet-law clinics, where law students do case legwork, legal case law searches, forms, etc., supervised by law school faculty, however, while they're all quite good, I've looked into them extensively, we've been to one by us that our NOVA guy was apparently also hooked into, they can't always handle all cases, depending on the level of complexity and/or time involved...after we got my 100%, we had to do a nonmonetary supplemental claim for cardiac stuff for me, to protect my wife, one of the VA hospital cardios where we were who was extremely experienced sent a short note worded the right way to the VA Regional Ofc. (VARO) by us, endorsing the validity, we had me have to go back to the VA hospital where he was, to see the comp and pension (VA) internist there, he basically looked it over, rubber stamped it, sent it back to the VARO marked to please approve, we waited, and the VARO approved it, that was handled by the same vet group we used before for the big claim on me...the difference with the nonmonetary claim was that, being already 100%, plus, there being no more money involved, the whole thing was comparatively minor and anticlimactic by contrast, which was why that one, by contrast with the other major big one, was, in fact, no big deal...hopefully, that explains yet more beyond what I'd sent above, once again, if you need more, I'm here, just ask, elaborate on your whole thing, so far as you'd want, as I said above as well, I'll try to give you my further thoughts, no rush, whenever you'd want, OK?