ptsd Ptsd C&p Exam Results

[mooose]

Greetings all! I have received a copy of my PTSD C&P exam results. Would anyone mind helping me guess where my rating will fall?

Currenlty going thru IDES process, waiting on NARSUM.

National Guard- MIL Tech

MAJ-O4

90% connected VA (50% is PTSD)

Edited March 28, 2015 by mooose

[NavyWife]

On number four the examiner marked the box that corresponds to a 70% rating. Now the rater must review all the other evidence in your file to determine what rating to assign. Here's a link to the rating schedule that explains a little bit more about how this is rated.

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?rgn=div5;node=38:1.0.1.1.5#sg38.1.4_1124a.sg13

If you aren't working because of your service-connected disabilities then you should file for TDIU. It's a special rating that pays you at the 100 percent rate, roughly $3,000 when your service connected disability's prevent you from working. The easiest way to be approved for TDIU is to have a letter from your doctor stating that you cannot work due to your service-connected disabilities. Another way is to get a letter from a vocational rehabilitation counselor stating that you "cannot work due to your service-connected disabilities".

Reading the narrative it sounds like the psychologist considered marking the 100% box but she did not because you still have a job currently. This is just her opinion and another psychologist may have a different opinion...

Please take the time to get professional counseling just for the sake of your family. When my husband was med boarded out of the Navy he really felt like his life was over. He had made plans that the military would be his career and now they were kicking him out. He felt angry and betrayed for a long time. It's hard to go through those feelings. But please know that those feelings are temporary. Eventually he got over it. Life is not always what we expect it will be. And that's okay. We just have to believe that we can adapt and change with the curveballs that life throws at us, simply because we BELIEVE we can.

[mooose]

Thank you so much for the encouragement. Yeah it is kind of a catch 22 with the occupation thing, they are putting me out because I am broke and can't function well at all. But being a mil-tech I will not be considered un-employed until the MEB process is complete, no matter how much work I miss. If I understand the combined ratings table correctly, I may reach 100 schedular this time, but I will keep the IU thing in mind. Thanks again.

[Tbird]

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[Deloveliest]

what is TDIU?

[georgiapapa]

Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability. Google 38 CFR part 4.16.

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