An evaluation of 0 percent is assigned because your left ear has an average loss of 33.8 with a speech discrimination of 88 percent and your right ear has an average decibel loss of 42.5 with a speech discrimination of 84 percent. The evaluation for hearing loss is based on objective testing.
Last month, the more than four million Veterans and survivors who receive compensation benefits from VA saw an increase of 1.7 percent in their total monthly payment. The increase is due to an annual (a.k.a. COLA) that ensures compensation benefits for Veterans and survivors keep pace with inflation. By law, COLA’s amount of increase is the same percentage as that of. The Social Security increase is based on a Bureau of Labor Statistics calculation of the rise in the consumer price index for. The new range from $129 monthly for a disabled Veteran rated at 10 percent to $2,816 monthly for a Veteran without dependents rated 100-percent.
The increase also applies to amounts for additional dependents, Veterans and survivors pension, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, and clothing allowances paid to certain disabled Veterans. You can check your 2013 COLA increase amount online through. If you don’t have an online eBenefits account already, this is a great reason to get one. Online access to your VA and DOD benefits information is just a click away and signing up takes just a few minutes. Did you know?. VA disability compensation is not subject to federal or state income tax. Veterans are rated at increments of 10 percent, reflecting degree of disability.
The largest category of Veterans on the compensation scale is at 10-percent disability ($129 per month), with 782,000 Veterans at this rate at the beginning of fiscal year 2013 among the total 2.9 million Veterans receiving disability compensation. The largest category of service-connected disabilities for Veterans receiving VA compensation is musculoskeletal problems, accounting for about 40 percent of all disabilities. This includes such problems as impairment of the knee and arthritis due to trauma.
Samantha O’Neil is a communications specialist with the Veterans Benefits Administration. I believe that the C&P Dr made a mistake, I went to the exam room, he didn’t ask me any question, just reading his past notes for two years ago and that’s it, I went to get the release of information and there it was, according to him is not change from the last visit!!!! I was very disappointed, I have soo many issues that contribute to my SC illness, I’m not mad just disappointed that he didn’t ask Me questions, he just past notes from two years ago to the new examination, with all my pains and illness and weather condition, I made a tremendous effort to make the examination for him to said that is no change, after a year without working due to all my SC conditions had hospitalized, being approve by SSA that I’m disable, why he didn’t ask me questions, that’s not right!!!! Hey am ready willing and able to work, with any veteran or group of vets willing to effect change in the way we are slowly but surely being pushed aside.
Maybe we need to start finding good ways resolves the overt disreguard of Honorably discharged Veterans. Lets form organizations that won’t take that stuff. There are too many civilians working in positions that can and should be filled by veterans, mostly because we can identify more directly with one another than, someone who has not actually been in the military. I am hopeful of achieving attention on a payment issue that is nearing 2 years.
My issue is the inability to have my record and marriagal status corrected from “single” to “married”. I am a US Navy Vet of 28 years and multiple tours in Iraq. I have personally hand carried the appropriate documents to the VA office in Newington, CT.
Additionally I have faxed the same information to Winston Salem, NC. I have called and left messages without any reply to my inquiries. Any information I have been able to obtain states how overloaded the VA is with resolving claims, etc. However from where I sit it is very difficult and frustrating given the time lapse and my attempts to resolve that absolutely nothing appears to be happening.
Please reply with any direction you may be able to provide. Thank you Charlie MacKenzie 2 Joshua Lane Clinton CT. I am a veteran, I submitted my paperwork for disability twice and was denied both times.
I was discharged in 1976 from the USAF as a firefighting sargeant. I have lost my complete vision in my left eye, hearing in my left ear is very diminished, I am now a diabetic beeing treated at the VA hospital in Washington DC, constantly have ulcers on both of my legs that are very painful, but yet still they denied my requests for disability.
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Can someone please tell me who can I contact to to get some sort of assistance and compensation? When they needed us, we were there, because we wanted to do the right thing for our country, but to thrown away as trash after you have been used up is inhuman. Thanks in advance. Wow, a whole 1.7%. Meanwhile, the actions of our Federal Reserve with Quantitative Easing has saw the dollar decline in vale by 27%.
The only fortunate thing is that other larger countried are just printing money. Look at prices of food.
Although the government says it has risen only 2%, does anyone really believe that. OJ up 23%, Peanut Butter up 19%, bread up 10% and I could go on and on. My electic per KWH went up 14%. The only thing that has either gone down or stabilized is housing and if you haven’t moved you have not benefited by that. CPI is BS and if you really study it, you will see how insignifican the increase is.
The next thing is the timliness of the article. I have already received two deposits at the inclreased rates.this is suppose to be news or more of the VA bragging about doing their job? Oh thank you, thank you government employees.not. I worked with Jet Aircraft for 15 years in the Navy, the VA finally passed allowing a claim for tinniness depending on rating. My rating ABE was on top of list was told by VA rep at my local VA field office, it would take 30 days to verify my sea service record to show that I did in fact work as an ABE and work around jet aircraft.
And the claim would be processed, this was August 2012. I was told in October when I called My VA rep about my claim to see what was going on that I would need a hearing test. It is now February 2013 and they have canceled 6 appointments from November 2012 to February 2013.
Now this is what you call out and out delaying a claim! I had 30% disability when I left the Navy December of 75. Under the Reagan Admin, they cut me to 10%. The Navy had to issue me glasses because my 20/20 vision was destroyed by staring at the Radar SPS10 CRT from 10 inches for 3 years on a port and starboard watch.
My perfect hearing was destroyed by wearing the high frequency squelch radio communication head sets for 3 years. There are Navy records, they had to issue me the glasses and they verified my hearing loss. My Top Secret clearance required it. I went to the VA for years after the Reagan admin. To receive nothing but a quick denial every year.
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WHY DO I HAVE THE BURDEN OF PROOF, THE NAVY AND THE US GOVT. HAVE THE RECORDS. I SAW THE CORMAN TAKING PAPERS OUT OF MY FILE AND TOLD HIM TO STOP, I EVEN HAD TO THREATEN HIM TO STOP. Now I’m deaf and half blind and the country I defended during Viet Nam and the Yam Kippur couldn’t care less. There are records of this and yet for 30+ years, they have crapped all over me! I am ashamed of my country for doing this to me! CAN ANYONE HELP?
DOES ANYONE REALLY CARE ABOUT ITS VETERANS? Carmen, I know how difficult the VA system can be. I’m working with my parents right now, who are in their 70’s, to find out things like what benefits they qualify for, what services are available to them, etc. And it’s hasn’t been an easy task.
They don’t use the internet so when they alone were trying to get answers, they just got so frustrated that about gave up. That’s when I stepped in to help. I want to recommend a book to you, I’m not sure what you’re looking for exactly, but it’s a pretty good book. It’s specific to children of Vets, like me, who are aiding their parents in figuring out the VA system, but it’s a wonderful handbook and it might be worth checking out. It’s called “Crack the VA” by Barbara Steinberg.
You can check out her site and the book at. I hope it can help you and I hope you have some better luck in getting the answers you need.
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