Special Monthly Compensation

[free_spirit_etc]

I was just reading some regs in my spare time and noticed once again the Special Monthly Compensation Rates. When I read it before -- I thought it was ironic that they will pay you for the loss of all or part of your "creative" organs -- but not OTHER organs. So teticles, breasts, and ovaries are given more importance than lungs, stomachs, livers, and brains...

Kind of odd I think.

I used to kid my husband and tell him if he got his lung cancer service connected --then - if he cut off his teticles DURING chemo - he would get a raise (secondary connection).

He did not think it was a good plan --and started hiding the knives...

Anyway --I now see that it also includes loss of USE of your creative organs.

Should I send in a claim for the time he quit using his????

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Maybe EVERY Vet on should file a claim every month they did not use their creative organs...

Let the VA explain THAT backlog to Congress!

Free

[Berta]

Well that was an eye opener topic!

One thing that male vets have to remember-

when the regs say "deformity" of penis-it really means the penis can only get partially erect thus preventing intercourse.

I used to wonder what the heck a deformed penis was-

but this is what the VA really means.

I only know that because I asked some SMC K vets and they told me.

I asked if they got a C & P with a Groinometer- but that was only a joke.

I think the word 'deformity' might cause some vets eleigible for the K award to not file a claim because they get the same impression I did-

I could not imagine what the word really meant.

[SLEDGE]

I believe that what you were thinking of comes under the general heading of 'birth defect' or one of the many conditions that medical science has identified as 'not consistent' with the general population by virtue of ---------.

Malformation, the lay definition is commonly birth defect, and deformity, not able to function as designed, describe 2 very different conditions and variations of same.

I got a sample of Viagra and have been trying to find a willing soul to help me test it for 8 years. Does that count as a deformity or just a reflection of my personality?

sledge

[Chuck75]

Odd in some ways, not so odd in others, Most of the VA compensation for loss of something (organ, whatever) is based upon some sort of loss of function. So loss of sexual function is consistent. Interestingly, A mastectomy is sort of the same as loss of a testicle for VA compensation. There is a distinct difference when in comes to reproductive function, since the testicle is directly involved, and the breast indirectly. I believe loss of say, a lung would be indirectly compensatable, base upon overall loss of ability to do strenuous activities.

I was just reading some regs in my spare time and noticed once again the Special Monthly Compensation Rates. When I read it before -- I thought it was ironic that they will pay you for the loss of all or part of your "creative" organs -- but not OTHER organs. So testicles, breasts, and ovaries are given more importance than lungs, stomachs, livers, and brains...

Kind of odd I think.

I used to kid my husband and tell him if he got his lung cancer service connected --then - if he cut off his testicles DURING chemo - he would get a raise (secondary connection).

He did not think it was a good plan --and started hiding the knives...

Anyway --I now see that it also includes loss of USE of your creative organs.

Should I send in a claim for the time he quit using his????

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Maybe EVERY Vet on should file a claim every month they did not use their creative organs...

Let the VA explain THAT backlog to Congress!

Free

[allan]

I would think loss of or loss of use for conditions resulting from toxic exposures, such as atrophy of the testicle or overy, or from cancers, etc would also be considered.

Would ovarian cysts fall into loss of use?

[Ricky]

Hey sledge - I know where you can get a tester but it will cost you a few bucks. If you use my suggestion maybe you would have a valid claim for A and A hahahahahahahahahahahaha. I have found in claims I have dealt with that if a vet has hypertension or DMII and mentions the need for viagra the VA is pretty good about awarding K. However, they are buggers when it comes to trying to get a rating for a deformity.

[free_spirit_etc]

But aren't most of the other Special Monthly Compensation things compensible in their own right - and then again under SMC? Yet most major organs are only compensible in their own right.

When it got to the point I had to watch my husband struggle to breathe, his testicles didn't seem all that important.

Free

Odd in some ways, not so odd in others, Most of the VA compensation for loss of something (organ, whatever) is based upon some sort of loss of function. So loss of sexual function is consistent. Interestingly, A mastectomy is sort of the same as loss of a testicle for VA compensation. There is a distinct difference when in comes to reproductive function, since the testicle is directly involved, and the breast indirectly. I believe loss of say, a lung would be indirectly compensatable, base upon overall loss of ability to do strenuous activities.