Awards Letter

[kookiebean2001]

Looking at my awards letter says something like this

Monthly entitlement amount / payment start date / reason for change

$450.00 Dec 1, 2006 Cost Of Living Adjustment

$489.00 Jan 1, 2007 Gross Rate Additional Amount

$450.00 Feb 1, 2007 Gross Rate additional amount

$489.00 Dec 1, 2007 Cost Of Living Adjustment

What does the Gross Rate additional amount mean ? It the amount $450.00 plus $489.00 for that month?

[LarryJ]

Looking at my awards letter says something like this

Monthly entitlement amount / payment start date / reason for change

$450.00 Dec 1, 2006 Cost Of Living Adjustment

$489.00 Jan 1, 2007 Gross Rate Additional Amount

$450.00 Feb 1, 2007 Gross Rate additional amount

$489.00 Dec 1, 2007 Cost Of Living Adjustment

What does the Gross Rate additional amount mean ? It the amount $450.00 plus $489.00 for that month?

I dunno, so put it simply.

I can't figure out ANYthing about the VA method of mathematics.

I do know that 30% isn't gonna get you $939.00 a month.

[john999]

Do you pay for VA life insurance out of your compensation?

[kookiebean2001]

I din't think I would get $939.oo every month. MAybe fo rthat month only ?

I don't pay for insurance either

I dunno, so put it simply.

I can't figure out ANYthing about the VA method of mathematics.

I do know that 30% isn't gonna get you $939.00 a month.

[kookiebean2001]

EDITED TEXT, I type better than that...lol

I didn't think I would get $939.00 every month. Maybe for that month only ?

I don't pay for insurance either

[LarryJ]

EDITED TEXT, I type better than that...lol

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It's heck when you have, as I do, English, not as a "first" language, nor even a "second" language, but as a third language.

I didn't have television when I was growing up, we didn't live close enough to a large town that had a TV station and I grew up on a ranch with my Grandparents and they spoke Yiddish/Hebrew and the kids that lived on the ranch, the ranch foreman's kids were all Hispanic and they didn't speak English either, so I wound up getting on the School Bus for my first day at grade school not knowing any English (I rode the school bus for 1 1/2 hours each morning and afternoon, just getting to school and back home. 5 A.M. comes very early on the farm.

The kids at school made fun of me, until the teacher pointed out the fact that, unlike them, I spoke and wrote 2 languages OTHER than English and they needed to concentrate on THEIR English as I was learning and doing BETTER than they were and would soon surpass their English abilities.

[Ricky]

Looking at my awards letter says something like this

Monthly entitlement amount / payment start date / reason for change

$450.00 Dec 1, 2006 Cost Of Living Adjustment

$489.00 Jan 1, 2007 Gross Rate Additional Amount

$450.00 Feb 1, 2007 Gross Rate additional amount

$489.00 Dec 1, 2007 Cost Of Living Adjustment

What does the Gross Rate additional amount mean ? It the amount $450.00 plus $489.00 for that month?

What rate are you being paid at plus are you receiving any additional amounts such smc k?

Looks like (without seeing the letter) from the amounts listed are the gross amounts due you and they are an increase from a previous amount that was paid for maybe something like a previous 10 percent award. Bottom line is they are only going to give you the 'MONTHLY ENTITLEMENT AMOUNT" nothing more.