What can I claim secondary to chickenpox?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list chickenpox as a factor. If DVA has accepted your chickenpox, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionChickenpox
- 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 chickenpox, and another condition's SoP lists chickenpox 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 chickenpox 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.
Shingles and postherpetic neuralgia
RH No. 27 of 2023 · BoP No. 28 of 2023
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (1): “having chickenpox before the clinical onset of shingles or postherpetic neuralgia” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (1): “having chickenpox before the clinical onset of shingles or postherpetic neuralgia” [clinical onset]
Other accepted conditions that also open shingles and postherpetic neuralgia
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions chickenpox does.
What DVA means by chickenpox
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.
Chickenpox, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chickenpox: (a) means an infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, usually manifesting with a vesicular eruption involving the skin or mucous membranes; and (b) excludes: (i) herpes simplex; (ii) shingles or postherpetic neuralgia; (iii) Mpox; and (iv) smallpox.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(4) to 9(6) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, chickenpox where it was already present before or during service. If service caused chickenpox outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 29 of 2023 · BoP No. 30 of 2023 · 6 factors
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