Who may seek reconsideration of a district committee's compensation decision, through which committee must the application go, and from what event does the period run?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In the practice file for this exercise we read the certified copy of the district committee's decision together with the proof of service, since the outcome must be a rejection or a dismissal, rejection in part counting as rejection, and the period runs from service; the reconsideration application and the papers the district committee sent on show whether it went through that committee.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the conditions together: only an applicant whose compensation application was rejected or dismissed, a partly rejected application counting as rejected, may seek reconsideration, and only by applying through the same district committee, within the period the provision sets from the day the certified copy of the decision was served; that committee must then send the whole application record on to the headquarters or special committee within the period it sets.
Another reading treats the route as procedural rather than a second filter: the provision requires the application to go through the district committee and makes that committee forward the record, but it states no power for the committee to examine the application first or to refuse to forward it, so forwarding follows from receipt alone.
Your judgment
Where a district committee rejected only part of a compensation application, does the reconsideration application reach the rejected part alone or the claim as a whole?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change who may apply, the route through the district committee, or the period, or if a body decides a named point such as what counts as a partly rejected application.