Adding va disability percentages12/24/2023 VA employees actually call it the Combinator. Instead the VA has its own combined rating calculator. Ironically, the VA does not even use this chart. The only help the VA offers veterans is to provide a chart and a couple dozen rules and exceptions. That veteran must show that he cannot work and that he meets a certain rating. Further, a veteran can step up to 100% through total disability due to individual unemployability. Also, if a veteran has too many ratings on one arm or leg then VA stops counting those ratings. For example, if a veteran has a rating on each leg or each arm then those ratings are combined together and give the overall combined rating an extra boost. There are other factors that make the ratings change too. This veteran receiving a rating of 100%, which is only 20% greater than the 80% rating, gets almost 100% more money a month! What Other Factors Does the VA Take Into Account for Disability? A single veteran rated at 100%, on the other hand, would receive $3,456.30 per month. According to the VA compensation rating table, a veteran, with no dependents, rated at 80% would receive $1,877.43 per month. The difference that it leads to in compensation is huge. So even though 50+50+20+20 equals 140 in real math it is only 80 in VA math. For instance, if a veteran has a ratings of 50% for PTSD, 50% for Sleep Apnea, a rating of 20% for diabetes and 20% for a back problem the combined rating is 80%. It gets harder and harder to get that higher rating, especially once a veteran is over 50%. The combined rating system starts to work against a veteran when he gets closer to 100%. Here, the rating would be rounded to 20%. The percentages are all rounded up or down to the nearest ten percent. The second ten percent rating would be 10% of the 90% (again the ‘healthy’ percent of the veteran), which is 9%. So for a veteran with two 10 ratings the first ten percent rating would be 10% of 100, which is 10%. Therefore, the next rating is not added but is used to take a percentage of the ‘healthy’ 90%. It is as if the VA says if you are 10% disabled then you are 90% healthy. When it comes to service connected compensation claims, the VA takes the view that it should not add whole numbers together to get your rating but, instead, the VA takes percentages of percentages. Have you ever wondered how the VA came up with the combined rating that it gave you? Have you ever noticed that 1 + 1 does not equal 2 with the VA? One of the most common complaints we get from veterans is ‘How in the world did the VA get the combined rating that they did with all the ratings I have?’ How Does the VA Rate Disabilities?
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