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Benefit Of Tdiu If I'm Already 100% P&t Schedular?

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I've searched for a couple hours and can't find anything related to the difference between a 100% P&T schedular rating and TDIU. Isn't the compensation the same?

A couple of people said I should be TDIU due to my 70% PTSD/depression, but I'm already 100% P&T, so what would be the difference/benefit other than reduced income from not working?

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I never understood how they do this

I was 90% Combined and could not work  so the Rater  or I should say the DRO bump me up to  TDIU P&T With no future exams scheduled and disability is of Nature in 2003.

  Now I am still TDIU P&T According to e benefits.

However since the IU Award of 2003 I have got a 70% PTSD Award in 2015

Now on e benefits it says I have a Final Degree 100% rating   and SMC -S was inferred to my total ratings...but yet I still have to send in the 21-4140-1 every year...so I take it I am still TDIU P&T \

Here is Exactly what e benefits has:

Disabilities

100%

Total Combined Disability

You have a 100% final degree of disability. This percentage determines the amount of benefit pay you will receive.

How is this calculated

Add Disabilities

 tinnitus10%Service Connected12/10/2002

bilateral hearing loss90%Service Connected03/17/2003

posttraumatic stress disorder70%Service Connected10/02/2015

erectile dysfunction 

0%Service Connected01/22/2016

HOWEVER THE IU and tinnitus was dated 2002/2003  but they retro paid me the date I' filled for increase 1999 but the effective date says different.

You've seen that blue circle on e benefits that  gets bigger when you put your mouse cursor over it...On mine it says 100%

So I am not sure what I am Rated At?   100% p&t  or TDIU P&T

Maybe John Basser, Jerrel and Alex Will talk about this on the  Hadit Podcast Radio show Thursday Evening  5-4-2017 at 6:00 pm Eastern time.??

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Jim Strickland from VAWatchdog.org has a good reply on this over at Stateside Legal here's an excerpt with a link to the post.

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The benefits that are available for a dependent of a 100% schedular disabled veteran and a 100% TDIU disabled veteran are exactly the same. The confusion comes from the fact that it isn't the rating of schedular v. TDIU but permanent v temporary assignments of the benefits.

Any 100% rated veteran get's the same money and basic benefits. The TDIU rating is simply a recognition by VA that the Schedule For Rating Disabilities (the Schedule) often falls short. The Schedule is where we get the term "schedular" as it applies to a rating. Because of the Combined Ratings Table (CRT or "VA math") some ratings won't make it to 100% by the schedule. Yet those veterans won't be able to hold gainful employment because of their multiple service connected disabilities.

The TDIU ratings process recognizes that and compensates for it by recognizing that there are many vets who are unemployable because of service connected disabilities. In the end, the 100% rating of a TDIU veteran is exactly the same as a veteran who is rated 100% by the schedule.

But wait...it isn't precisely the same...typical of VA. The veteran who is rated 100% by the Schedule is allowed to work. Many veterans who are rated as 100% schedular are working and earning good salaries. The TDIU rated vet isn't allowed to hold gainful employment because his 100% rating is contingent upon his inability to hold gainful employment.

The real confusion starts when we determine whether or not the 100% rating, whether schedular or TDIU, is a permanent rating or a temporary rating. Any rating awarded by VA may be assigned as being temporary or permanent.

Stateside Legal

VA Watchdog

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Yes I understand the difference  between the two ratings, its when a veteran has other ratings added in to qualify him/her for the 100%  w//p&t rating without being of a combined TDIU P&T Rating...A final degree 100% rating.

  ( in my opinion that is VA is saying you have a 100% rating?) not TDIU anymore?

And being  P&T 100% or with the TDIU they can't take it away  unless Freud or VA  proves disability as  improved.

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