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Privileges Due To Disability

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tom91

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According to the VA website, a vet must be rated 100% in order to obtain an ID card for PX privileges; however, it seems when I was discharged for disabilities in 1991, the army would base it upon 30%+. Does anyone have any further information?

Also, if my claim is approved and found to be an error back to 1991, it would have been a 30% rating at that time. If I'm correct on ID priv @30%+, will they honor that privilege now or deny it since the VA guidelines is 100%. It by all means is not the first priority with this claim but certainly curious.

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Teac, I suggest you find the regs related to the VA rating. The military does not use the same criteria.

The VA will and can rate a disability according to its own criteria. If that rating is lower than the MED, Then the Vet may be SOL. The VA does not consider the Military rating. Only what is in the Title 38 part 4..

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And I suggest you re-read what I stated, which was, " the va does not have the authority to change the percentage that the Military awarded you."

I was rated at 30% from the Army. The va rated me at 100%. The va rating does not change the rating from the Army, and the Army's rating is still valid. One has nothing to do with the other, and I never in any why said that they did.

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1. The va must consider the rating the military awarded, it does not have to agree but it still must be considered because it is a part of the medical record.

2. When I was rated by the Army over 20 years ago the Army and the VA used the same exact Critera and rating schedule to rate me. Until recently that was the case, now the va awards all disability ratings to include those by a MEB board. This was changed by congress because the services where lowballing awards...

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