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Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) are medical examination forms used to obtain important information for evaluating disability compensation and/or pension claims. VA physicians use DBQs when performing C&P exams for VA disability.
The purpose of a DBQ is to ensure that the physician performing the exam records all the information needed for VA to properly rate a disabled veteran’s conditions.
On 4/2/2020, VA sent a bulletin stating the Discontinuance of Publicly Available Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs). VA states they are "modernized"; whereby they are currently more than half-way through the process of updating all body systems in the VASRD (VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities), since the last update in 1945. As each body system is updated, so are the corresponding DBQs.
Citing abuse of
the system, VA has removed DBQs from its public websites. The VA
says that DBQs will still be available to medical practitioners, who
can use them in performing their official duties, but that they will no
longer be available to the general public; as VA feel they have expanded its own capacity to conduct these examinations.
VA’s policy regarding accepting these forms directly from
veterans’ providers has not changed. Therefore, we have provided links/pdf to a number of DBQs used by the
VA, but no longer provided to the public.
Lastly, VA will continue to accept any evidence that veterans or their accredited representatives wish to submit in support of disability compensation or pension claims.
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