Soultrain

Hello my name is Gary. I was medically discharged(sc) in July 2007. I was given a 20% rating from the Army and severence pay. I was in for 3 yrs. I went to the VA and I eventually got to 100%I/U over 7 years ago. Prior to that I was at 50%. Approximately 4 yrs ago I received a letter from the PDRB identifying me as one of many Servicemembers who possibly received the wrong rating. The PDRB advised nothing would change with our VA compensation. So I authorized the board to review my case. I recently received a letter advising me I am now Medically RET. Yeah! They retroactively retired me 12 1/2 yrs ago. DFAS had the VA pay them a little over $100,000 +SBP premiums for 13 yrs and now I owe DFAS $677.00 to pay for more SBP. I DO NOT get any retirement pay. The PDRB is a bunch of smoke and mirrors. The only thing I can say is yes I'm retired from the Army and received nothing! The Army raised their rating from my original 20% to 40% retired status------a big goose egg. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you. Oh and I was planning on making this my 2nd career until I was injured (LOD)

Hello, my name is Gary. I was medically discharged from the Active Army 12 1/2 yrs ago with a 20% rating and $3068.00 in severence pay. Four yrs the PDRB contacted me and advised me I was identified as a Soldier who may have received the wrong percentage. At this point I was already receiving 100%I/U VA compensation. This was 4 yrs ago I authorized PDRB to review my case. Just recently I received a letter frim PDRB stating they gave me the wrong percentage and I am now considered RET retroactively to July 2007. I received 3 retirement pay statements from DFAS , the first two showed how much I would get, the third letter said I would be getting $0.00 because of the VA waiver. At this point I can say I'm retired and that is it. Oh and I can use the PX and Commissary(I was able to use before). To add insult to injury I now owe DFAS $677 for SBP and I don't get RET pay bc of the VA offset? To me it was not worth allowing PDRB to review my case and retire me. This was 12 1/2 yrs ago. I was planning on making the military my second career after my civilian job. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks.