bassrunnin

10 years. As long as you are P and T your dependents will receive Chapter 35 education benefits. A wise Idea would be invest ion a High Dollar AD&D policy. It is cheap.

I too have Bipolar and PTSD. They considered my Bipolar secondary to the PTSD. To answer your question they take both of them into account and how they affect your daily living. My initial rating was 70% PTSD. I applied for TDUI and I believe they took the fact that I am Bipolar 1 with rapid cycling into account along with the PTSD. It's hard enough to maintain a job with PTSD let alone cycling every 6-8 weeks :(

Finally my claim is complete. Took 8 months total, which isn't long compared to a lot of folks on here. 6 months for claim another 2 months to grant TDUI...I'm glad this is finally over so I can start enjoying my life and not checking Ebennies every hour :)

I was just awarded 70% and the BBE states the TDIU was pending. Ebenefits shows gathering evidence...how long does it usually take for them to process?

I should also mention that I filed the TDIU form with my claim so that part has already done...

Finally my claim is complete. Took 8 months total, which isn't long compared to a lot of folks on here. 6 months for claim another 2 months to grant TDUI...I'm glad this is finally over so I can start enjoying my life and not checking Ebennies every hour :)

OK so I finally got an answer on the TDUI Today I got the actual letter from the VA about my TDIU award. My combined rating is still 70%, but they'll be paying me at 100% with no examinations scheduled in the future. Does this mean I get the benefits of 100% total and am permanent and can ask for property tax exemption and the such? I don't want to ask or presume anything that I shouldn't get or are entitled to. Is it because no examinations are scheduled that I am Permament and Total even though my service connected is 70%. Very confusing. Can someone explain all this to me...please...thanks

This is what My VA letter says in Ebennies:VA Benefit Information

You have one or more service-connected disabilities: Yes

Your combined service-connected evaluation is: 70%

Your current monthly award amount is: $3268.12

The effective date of the last change to your current award was: December 01, 2014

You are being paid at the 100 percent rate because you are unemployable due to your service-connected disabilities: Yes

You are considered to be totally and permanently disabled due to your service-connected disabilities: Yes

Finally my claim is complete. Took 8 months total, which isn't long compared to a lot of folks on here. 6 months for claim another 2 months to grant TDUI...I'm glad this is finally over so I can start enjoying my life and not checking Ebennies every hour :)

Go into Ebennies and add your dependents. For me when I added them they backdated the extra money to date of filing which is what I got for just me. So I ended getting two lump sums. One for me and one for dependents. Not sure where in ebennies you go to get there...it took me awhile to find it, but it's there. Hope that helps

Finally my claim is complete. Took 8 months total, which isn't long compared to a lot of folks on here. 6 months for claim another 2 months to grant TDUI...I'm glad this is finally over so I can start enjoying my life and not checking Ebennies every hour :)

Ok we've got two things going here...first let's see if we can straighten out the question of how SSDI back pay works...

Social Security Disability

Your effective date is the date you file...so in his case he filed Aug 2012. They can backdate up to 2 years from that date (the filing of claim freezes that 2 year max). Then it took another year to actually complete the claim. So in his case...(if I'm understanding dates)...If the claim were concluded today...he could go back actually 2 years plus the 5 month waiting period...so 2 years 5 months. The first 5 months is his (waiting period) and his 6th month is when he starts the clock for the 2 years. Plus he gets paid from the date he filed until the case was won.

In my case...I was first out of work Nov 2013 and was out Dec 2013...went back to work and worked part of Jan, Feb, out March, part time Apr, may,,,not been back to work at all effective June 2014. They backdated to Nov 2013 because that was the onset of my medical condition that prevented me from working and I did not exceed their monthly threshold for earnings for those months. Backpay started Apr 2014 and I get paid 3 rd week of every month.

Now TDUI question?

It was stated that the TDUI claim was denied because SSDI was denied. You won the SSDI on appeal and then submitted paperwork to VA to prove that you were approved for the VA conditions and should get TDUI. In this case it is obvious you should...not in dispute. The critical question here is did you have to file another claim to get that info submitted or were you able to attach it to the original claim? It would seem to me that if you had attached to original claim after denial that would have to be done through an appeals process without filing a new claim to submit the evidence. Someone tell me if I'm wrong here...

IF it was submitted on the previous claim and no other claim was needed to be filed and it didn't need to go through an appeals process to get that info submitted...than I am with everyone else and you should get a lawyer.