They May Not Ask For Your Medical Records, Reopen Your Rating, or Push You to Be Re-evaluated
Federal findings of service-connected disability are probative in Kansas. State agencies and municipalities may not request or demand a veteran’s private health information to decide disability benefit eligibility, may not reconsider a disability determination made by a service secretary or the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and may not ask a veteran to voluntarily seek a re-evaluation of an existing claim. Three named documents are what may be asked for instead.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
Federal findings of service-connected disability are probative in Kansas. State agencies and municipalities may not request or demand a veteran’s private health information to decide disability benefit eligibility, may not reconsider a disability determination made by a service secretary or the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and may not ask a veteran to voluntarily seek a re-evaluation of an existing claim. Three named documents are what may be asked for instead.
What it's worth: No medical records, no second-guessing the rating, no pressure to be re-examined
- No sum is claimed. The value is a diagnosis that stays private and a rating that is not reopened by an office that has no business reopening it.
- Subsection (d) is the limit on the protection: the percentage of disability evaluation must be disclosed by the veteran or the family where it is germane to the statutory limitation in question. The finding is protected; the number is not, when a statute turns on it.
Who is entitled to it
- The section’s definition of veteran reaches you.
- You are in this state.
Not sure whether that describes you?
Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.
How to claim it
- 1Offer one of the three the statute names and nothing more: a VA benefits summary letter with service-connected disability marked "yes"; a military service physical evaluation board document issued under 10 U.S.C. §1222(a) with a finding of "unfit for duty"; or a posthumous Purple Heart, a military posthumous award citation, military orders, or official casualty notification correspondence from the Department of Defense.
- 2The benefit summary letter is the everyday route and can be configured to prove service connection without disclosing a single diagnosis. Configure it that way before you hand it over.
- 3If asked for medical records, quote subsection (b)(1) — a state agency or municipality shall not request or demand a veteran’s private health information for the purpose of determining eligibility for service-connected or non-service-connected disability benefits.
- 4If told the office wants its own view of your rating, quote (b)(2) and (b)(3): determinations by the secretaries of the army, navy, air force, homeland security, health and human services and commerce, and by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, may not be reconsidered.
- 5If pressed to "just go get re-examined", quote (b)(4) — the office may not request or demand that a veteran voluntarily seek a re-evaluation of an existing service-connected disability claim. That request is what puts a stable rating at risk, which is exactly why the subsection exists.
- 6Surviving family members are inside subsection (c) on the same terms and can prove a service-connected death with the casualty notification or the posthumous award.
- 7Do disclose the percentage where the benefit itself is written around a percentage — a fifty percent threshold cannot be applied without it, and the statute says so.
- Form
- No form — this is a limit on what an office may ask you for
- File with
- The state agency or municipality administering the benefit you are applying for
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
Sources
- authority · statuteK.S.A. 73-1245 — Service-connected disability determinations; findings; documentation: federal findings probative; bars on demanding private health information, reconsidering federal determinations and requesting voluntary re-evaluation; the three documents that may be asked for; disclosure of the percentage where germane (L. 2024, ch. 84, §5)
- operating · statuteK.S.A. 73-1244 — the companion identity-document section, read alongside 73-1245
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