Resources
The VA’s own math, worked in plain English.
10 tools and guides that run the rules the raters use: your combined rating, your filing dates, your pay, your appeal. All of it is free.
| Start whole | 100 |
|---|---|
| 50% of 100 taken | − 50 |
| 30% of the 50 left | − 15 |
| 65 taken, rounds to | 70% |
50% + 30% is 70%, not 80%. Run your own ratings in the calculator.
Tools
Answer a question about your own situation: your combined rating, your filing dates, your exam.
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Your ratings do not simply add. See how the VA combines them into one number, step by step, and what each condition changes.
Search the VA rating schedule by condition and see what evidence each percentage level asks for.
Record an intent to file with the VA to protect your effective date, and track its one-year expiration.
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Work through the TDIU worksheet at your own pace and see what the claim form will ask before you start it.
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Prepare for your Compensation & Pension exam and audit the report you get back afterward.
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Guides
The rules behind the benefits, written for people, not raters. Each one cites the regulation or manual it comes from.
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The rule-book behind your rating: what the VASRD is, why ratings do not add, the bilateral factor, and the pyramiding rule.
Find past Board decisions on appeals like yours in VA's free search: what to type, how to narrow by year, and how to read a decision.
Reference
Numbers copied from the source, with the date we last checked them. Nothing estimated.
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VA's monthly payment tables for 10% through 100%, by dependent status, copied from VA's own rate page with the effective date shown.
The date each monthly VA disability payment arrives this year and next, from the U.S. Treasury's published schedule where it has one and otherwise worked out from federal law.
Checklists
First practical steps for a hard moment, each with the official source and a phone number that answers.
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A gentle checklist of the first calls after a veteran's death: VA, Social Security, DFAS, TRICARE, banks, and burial planning, each with its official source.
More on the way. New guides land here as they clear review. Signed in, your tools also sit in one place under your account, next to your saved conditions and forms.