What can I claim secondary to charcot-marie-tooth disease?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list charcot-marie-tooth disease as a factor. If DVA has accepted your charcot-marie-tooth disease, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionCharcot-marie-tooth disease
- Conditions it may open1
- SourceRMA SoPs
- Chart Review$600 + GST
How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your charcot-marie-tooth disease, and another condition's SoP lists charcot-marie-tooth disease as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list charcot-marie-tooth disease as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Trigeminal neuralgia or trigeminal neuropathy
RH No. 84 of 2024 · BoP No. 85 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (19): “having Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening of trigeminal neuralgia” [onset and worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (17): “having Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening of trigeminal neuralgia” [onset and worsening]
Other accepted conditions that also open trigeminal neuralgia or trigeminal neuropathy
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions charcot-marie-tooth disease does.
What DVA means by charcot-marie-tooth disease
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Charcot-marie-tooth disease, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease means one of a group of genetic disorders of myelin structure or axon function which results in chronic peripheral motor and sensory neuropathies.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(1) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, charcot-marie-tooth disease where it was already present before or during service. If service caused charcot-marie-tooth disease outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 88 of 2023 · BoP No. 89 of 2023 · 1 factors
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