For ExampleĪ Veteran has the following service-connected disability ratings: It’s also necessary to consider if the injuries are bilateral, which means they affect limbs on both sides of the body. If you have another disability rating on top of that then it starts to get complicated.Įvery injury or illness is rated on its own, without taking into consideration other illnesses or injuries, except if they play a role in additional injuries. If you have only one disability then the math is quite simple. Say you had a rating of 40% for a single disability, then your efficiency rating would be 100%-40% or 60%. It may help to follow along with the rating table or the VA Disability Calculator as we go. Then according to the severity of disibility it goes down from there. Normal healthy veterans with no service-connected injury or illness have an ‘efficiency’ rating of 100%. Ratings are represented by a percentage in increments of 10% (10%, 20%, 30%… 100%). What Is The Formula?įirstly, the VA treats each illness or injury individually when considering your numerical disability rating. Rather, the VA takes percentages of percentages when considering service-connected compensation claims.
It is because the VA takes the position that it will not add whole numbers together to calculate your rating. The disparity can actually cost hundreds, or even thousands of dollars a year in compensation payments and other benefits. It’s substantially beneficial that you know the way your rating is established in order to ensure that your benefits are calculated appropriately.
Among the more frequently heard objections we’ve got from veterans is ‘How on earth was the VA able to arrive at the figure for the combined rating they did with all the current ratings I’ve got?’ Have you ever questioned what formula the VA devised to figure the combined rating you received? It may have occurred to you that 2 + 2 does not equal 4 to the VA when they do the math. We have provided a VA Disability Calculator to help veterans understand how their disability ratings are established.
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