TYFYS means Thank You For Your Service
If You're a Veteran filing for VA Disability our Veteran-led team can help you with your VA claim. Every step of the way. Get the VA disability rating increase You deserve and file your claim with confidence.
Flat fee, quoted before any work starts • We never take a percentage of your backpay
Flat fee, quoted before any work starts • We never take a percentage of your backpay
Veterans we’ve helped
James T. — Back Pain Increase. Read his story below.
Why the date matters
VA decides effective dates and payment amounts under its rules. TYFYS does not predict lost compensation or guarantee that evidence will change a rating.
Free claim education
The TYFYS blog and free resources help you understand VA evidence, rating math, records, appeal paths, and common claim mistakes before you make your next move.
A practical guide for documenting functional loss, range-of-motion changes, repeated-use limits, lay evidence, and weak C&P exam findings.
Estimate combined ratings and monthly compensation before you decide what evidence still matters.
See how free VSOs, lawyers, and private medical evidence support differ before you choose a route.
Start with free walkthroughs for service treatment records, DD-214/C-File recovery, and VA.gov letters.
Recognized Standards of Excellence
Read what we produce, what it costs, and where the legal lines are before you ever get on a call with us.
The exact documents included, how pricing is quoted, and the evidence path for each condition.
Six stages from first call to finished packet, and what we need from you at each one.
What we can and can't do, what VA controls, and why we won't file the claim for you.
When the evidence for and against a claim is close to even, the rules say the benefit of the doubt goes to the veteran. That is written into 38 C.F.R. § 3.102. Your medical records, personal statements, and independent medical evidence help put your experience on your side of the scale.
Accredited attorneys and claims agents may charge fees under federal rules, and fee structures vary. Review accreditation, the written representation agreement, and the exact scope before hiring anyone. TYFYS is not an accredited representative and does not provide legal advice.
Your claim file tells your story through documents: treatment records, C&P examinations, and private medical evidence. An accredited representative can help you file; a qualified clinician can independently evaluate the medical evidence. Who has documented your side of the story?
Some service-connection questions require competent medical reasoning that addresses causation or aggravation. A qualified clinician must independently decide whether an opinion is supportable and explain the basis for it; no wording or opinion guarantees a VA result.
Not advice, not a strategy call — a set of documents. We don't file your claim and we don't represent you. We build the medical record you file with, whether you submit it yourself or take it to your VSO.
Service treatment records, C-file, private and VA treatment notes, and every prior rating decision — including the exact wording VA used to deny or underrate you.
Which conditions the evidence can actually support, which secondaries you never claimed, and the specific gap in each one: no nexus, stale exam, or no documented functional loss.
When provider coordination is included and available, a licensed private physician reviews your file and determines the examination, DBQ, or nexus opinion the evidence supports. The provider makes that medical decision independently.
You receive an indexed, submission-ready packet plus a filing checklist. Putting the evidence in up front is what a Fully Developed Claim is — though VA controls whether it orders another exam and how long a decision takes.
These are documented outcomes from veterans whose files we helped build. What changed in each case was the evidence, not the story. Past results don't guarantee future outcomes — only VA can increase or decrease a rating under its own rules.
"After 15 years at a 30% overall rating, I didn't think an increase was possible. The team helped me get medical documentation showing how my back had deteriorated, and the VA finally increased my rating. My only regret is not doing this years ago."
James T.
Back Pain Increase
"I was rated at 30% for PTSD for 8 years even as my mental health kept getting worse. The psychologist they connected me with documented how it affected my work and relationships, and the VA increased my rating. The retroactive pay more than covered what I paid for their help."
Christopher L.
PTSD Increase
"For years I only had my back rated at 20%. The medical evaluation they arranged documented how my back condition led to hip, knee, and depression issues as secondary conditions, and the VA significantly increased my overall rating."
Kevin L.
Secondary Claims
All disability ratings and effective dates are decided solely by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under 38 C.F.R. Past client results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
We take cases where the problem is missing medical evidence — because that is the only problem we can fix. If your file has a different problem, we'll say so on the call.
You were rated years ago and it got worse since. Nothing in your record documents that. An increase turns on current findings — range of motion, flare-ups, what the condition costs you at work — and yours are out of date.
The decision says the evidence doesn't show your condition is related to service. That is a denial of a medical opinion, not of your service — and it is the specific hole a private physician's review is built to fill.
Sleep apnea secondary to PTSD. Radiculopathy running off a rated back. Depression from chronic pain. GERD from the medication VA prescribed. Each needs its own opinion showing it is proximately due to the condition already service-connected.
If you've never filed anything, start with an accredited VSO. It's free, they're good at first claims, and paying for private evidence before VA has ever looked at your file is usually money spent early. If VA already granted the rating your records support, we'll tell you that too. We'd rather lose the sale than sell you a packet you don't need.
TYFYS meaning
TYFYS is short for Thank You For Your Service — a phrase most veterans have heard a few thousand times and cashed exactly zero of. We took the name because the work is the opposite of the phrase: not a sentiment, a document.
TYFYS is a private, veteran-led medical evidence team for VA disability claims. We read the claim file, find the evidence gap, coordinate DBQs and independent medical opinions with licensed private physicians, and prepare the personal and buddy statements that go with them. Read more about what TYFYS means and our mission.
Start with the TYFYS education hub, review the latest VA claim strategy articles, or use evidence checklists like the VA shoulder rating checklist, VA ankle rating checklist, VA hip pain checklist, and COPD rating checklist. Newer evidence guides cover the VA ACE exam, VA bilateral factor, VA pyramiding rule, rhinitis ratings, and VA rating increases. If VA already decided the claim, compare the supplemental claim evidence checklist with the Higher-Level Review evidence checklist.
TYFYS is not the VA, not a VSO, and not a law firm.
Twenty minutes with a veteran-led team that reads rating decisions for a living. We'll tell you which evidence gap is holding your claim, what it would cost to close it, and whether it's worth closing at all.
Confidential. No commitment. TYFYS is not the VA, not a VSO, and not a law firm.