employees containing red ink. Out-based facility with fewer than manual date stamp containing red five employees and sites conducting ink. Transition Assistance and Disabled Transition Assistance briefings pre-discharge activities Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) activities, and field examiner activities site conducting outreach activities manual date stamp containing red ink. The employee receiving Important: documents at outreach events must also sign their name below the red date stamp. centralized mail (CM) scanning electronic date stamp containing vendor black ink. Use of red ink for mail received at out-based locations assists the RO Notes: employees performing claims-establishment functions to identify the proper date of claim (DOC), and avoid potential confusion when this mail is subsequently received at the RO. For more information on References: RO and intake site responsibilities for pre-discharge claims, see M21-1, Part III, Subpart i, 2.B.1, and CM vendor date stamping and receipt dates, see M21-1, Part III, Subpart ii, 1.E.1.c. b. Handling Use the guidance in the table below when attempting to determine the date Documents the VA received a document processed without a date stamp. Processed Without a Date Stamp If receipt of the document by Then ... VA is determined to be ... the current date stamp the document with an official date stamp. prior to the current date hand-write the date of receipt on the document. unknown hand-write the best estimate for the date of receipt, and identify it as an estimate on the document.
employees containing red ink. Out-based facility with fewer than five employees and sites conducting Transition Assistance and Disabled Transition Assistance briefings pre-discharge activities Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) activities, and field examiner activities manual date stamp containing red ink. site conducting outreach activities manual date stamp containing red ink. Important: The employee receiving documents at outreach events must also sign their name below the red date stamp. centralized mail (CM) scanning vendor electronic date stamp containing black ink. Notes: Use of red ink for mail received at out-based locations assists the RO employees performing claims-establishment functions to identify the proper date of claim (DOC), and avoid potential confusion when this mail is subsequently received at the RO. References: For more information on RO and intake site responsibilities for pre-discharge claims, see M21-1, Part III, Subpart i, 2.B.1, and CM vendor date stamping and receipt dates, see M21-1, Part III, Subpart ii, 1.E.1.c. b. Handling Documents Processed Without a Date Stamp Use the guidance in the table below when attempting to determine the date the VA received a document processed without a date stamp. If receipt of the document by VA is determined to be ... Then ... the current date stamp the document with an official date stamp. prior to the current date hand-write the date of receipt on the document. unknown hand-write the best estimate for the date of receipt, and identify it as an estimate on the document.
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