VA Disability Compensation Pays:

[rainvet]

VA Disability Compensation (Last Updated:01 Jul, 2005)

If you are military veteran with a service-related disability you may qualify for over $2,299 in monthly benefits. These benefits are paid to veterans who have injuries or diseases that happened while on active duty, or were made worse by active military service. It is also paid to certain veterans disabled from VA health care. These benefits are tax-free.

Eligibility:
You may be eligible for Disability Compensation if you have a service-related disability and you were discharged under other than dishonorable conditions.

VA Disability Compensation Pays:
The amount of basic benefit paid ranges from $108 to $2,299 per month, depending on how disabled you are.

Note: You may be paid additional amounts, in certain instances, if:
you have very severe disabilities or loss of limb(s)
you have a spouse, child(ren), or dependent parent(s)
you have a seriously disabled spouse
Application Process:
You can apply by filling out VA Form 21-526, Veterans Application for Compensation Or Pension. If you have any of the following material, attach it to your application:
Dependency records (marriage & children's birth certificates)
Medical evidence (doctor & hospital reports)
You can also apply on line through the VONAPP website.

For More Information Call Toll-Free 1-800-827-1000.

Related Topics:

Veterans Compensation Program
Compensation Tables
Concurrent Receipt and Disability Payments (CRDP)
Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC)

[crazedvet91@insightbb.com]

This info is very helpfull. What if you are 70% and have been getting since 8-05 and filled put proper paperwork but still havent been getting pay for spouse and children. My request for higher c&p is next week. will they finaly adress that issue when they make a fineal desisson or will I have 2 do all over again?

[TinCanMan]

Anyone rated 30% or more should have received the forms to apply for the additional amount for wife and children. I should only take a few months, not 2 years. Call your local VA Regional Office on the toll free number: 1-800-827-1000 and ask about it. You should only have to submit the form once, when you are rated 30% or more.

I get the feeling you are trying to process your claims yourself. Bad idea.

You don't need to go this alone. Every Veterans Service Organization (VSO) and some States and Counties have VA certified Service Officers (SO's) that will assist veterans and their spouses with presenting their claims. Call The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the American Legion (AL), the American Red Cross (ARC), the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Military Order of the Purple Heart (MoPH) or any of the other hundreds of organizations and ask for help filing a claim. It's free and you don't have to be a member.

One thing to remember is that all SO's are not cut from the same cloth. Choosing one is pretty much a crap shoot unless you get personal recommendations in your area from other vets. SO's can be both good and bad depending on the individual SO. Talk to several, find out which ones return your calls and are available when you call them. Most of the major Veterans Service Organizations have training programs but not all require it. In the end, find someone you can work with.

[rainvet]

crazedvet, let me said at first, thank you for your service to our Nation. What you need to do is sat down with a VRO reps and ask these question to them. Now if you don't feel good with them, you can always change VRO.

Never give out your information to strangers because it has and will come back to bit you some-where at sometime in the future if you are not careful who you give details too. There is a lots of peoples on Vets Board that will use you for there glory and not for your. the only true ones who can and will be any help to you are the peoples at the dept. of VA who hopefully will know there job, which you must watch for because I see new VRO come and go and these new ones just goes by the book and doesn't know very much on there own.

I've been through many C&P's and you can have on some of them, lab. work and others you will be in a room with a person that will go over your military information to check if it fits what you've claiming or if nit enough there, they will talk to you and get your side of the claim you've seeking.

Anyway just relax and be up front with your answers but always remember that you and you alone will be the only true on who care about your claim so it your job to keep on top of all the going and who, and what your Reps give and say in your behalf. Good luck Sir and GOD Bless you. RainVet

[TinCanMan]

Rainvet:

Sharing medical information on forums is the only way we can provide advice to anyone. We do this all the time and as long as there is no personally identifiable information, it isn't a problem. Try to get a grip.

[rainvet]

{as long as there is no personally identifiable information,}

Tin, that all I was trying to state to anyone here because I have see others Vets use the information over times and over the years when something happen to be one of the persons who get mad at that person and then later on down the road brought up there reason for asking for help and that all I'm trying to convoy here. I'm not trying to pin point out anyone special but just sharing this to others what has happen to others before. RainVet

[TinCanMan]

Maybe, but that's not what you said. No one should ever publish personally identifiable information in a web forum or in e-Mail but that's not what we do here. We all have a nym and don't use our given/family names. I don't know who you are and unless you publish it, never will. We have both published our medical information on this and other forums. If that information can't be linked to an individual, it's irrelevant.