tdiu How Long Is Tdiu P/t Last?

[Rockytop]

Hello good folks I posted eariler but it never showed up? hope this one does?

How long does a 100%rating of tdiu pt last? age 63 or 65? or til you die?

and if your combined rating is 60% do you still recieve the tdiu after you turn say 63?65? based on your over all combined rating?

I was raised from 50%to 90% to get tdiu with a 10% rating of tittus. they say my over all rating is 60 %?

but was awarded the 100%rate with p/t curently on tdiu.

I am worried about this because I'm getting ready to turn 63 and if its redused I'll be a in big trouble making house payments ect,,ect, or making ends meet, wife is disable also but can't get SS.

[Commander Bob]

...I'm getting ready to turn 63

Happy Birthday, Rockytop... I would file for SS at age 62.

Edited February 10, 2009 by Commander Bob 92-93

[Pete53]

"Don't worry be happy" Bobby McFerrin. No the VA has enough problems without stirring the old Vets up.They pretty much try to manage the train by taking forever and not granting disability in the first place. Once you have it in my opinion it is more secure than Social Security.

Social Security March 1991

VA Dis ability Nov 1996 effective Nov 1993 and yes I still think I have a CUE claim.

[Philip Rogers]

deltaj, a slight correction - you must have work credits in 5 of the 10 yrs before you became disabled, not before you applied.

pr

It's my understanding that a permanent and total rating for total disability individual unemployability lasts until another examination is scheduled for your service connected condition. In other words, you are only permanent and total as long as no future examinations are scheduled. It is routine for veterans to apply for Social Security disability as soon as their disability worsens and they can no longer work. Have you applied for Social Security disability yet? You need to do that as soon as possible because you must have work credits in 5 of the last 10 years before you applied. You need 20 credits in that 10 year period and it is my understanding that you earn 1 credit for every quarter you work in and receive more than $300.00 wages in that quarter. THESE NUMBERS MAY HAVE CHANGED SO CONTACT SOCIAL SECURITY TO CHECK YOUR ELIGIBILITY. DON'T RELY ON ME TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY.

[tssnave]

Philip,

Please post a link to the SS rule that you are quoting - "you must have work credits in 5 of the 10 yrs before you became disabled, not before you applied."

I became too disabled to work in 1997 when I was 40 (worked full time from 18-40) but did not know you could claim SS with a mental disorder.

I have been told several times by SS that you have to have worked 5 out of the last 10 years before you not only become disabled but before you apply. That's there's no grace period for being ignorant that you had a valid SS claim if you didn't apply the minute you became disabled.

If you could post a SS rule, court case, or other governing regulation then I could actually apply for SS which would be a big help. As it is, I didn't realize until 2004 that I had a valid VA claim (bipolar started while I was in military and luckily I got treatment for it) and I'm 100% P&T based soley on my sc bipolar disorder.

Any citation to this you could give me for SS would be a very big help.

Thanks,

TS Snave

[Rockytop]

oH oK Thanks, I'll go file for SS ASAP.

Were both worried about this/so now I don't have to worry any more. Thanks guys.

I Never knew you could still get TDIU after you turn 63/65.

I am currently 100% on TDIU with P/T, No future exames schduled and my SC disiblity is perament in Nature.

I Realize the VA Can do what they want and if you ain't been on TDIU for the last 20 years then your subject to C& P exams also? right?

but even if I don't have any C&P exams I still keep getting the TDIU After I turn 63/65?

I still get the montier letters from the VA every year, the one them asking you if your working or not or working for the VA or been in jail more than 60 days ect,,ect,, when I do get them letters I always fill it out and send it back to them with a return receipt requsted, because to this day I stll don't trust the VA...I learn that the hard way and it took my claim serveral years to win simply because they had said at my RO that they never recieved certain paper work.

I had requested a hearing at my RO and with all my evidence I won after serveral years of fighting with them....THAT HEARING WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID.

Just wish I had known about all this before hand, I tell every vetran I see to keep fighting because you will win sooner or later, don't ever give up and always when you send the VA something GO TO THE POST OFFICE AND GET A REQUESTED RETURN RECIEPT THAT THEY GOT IT.

I Just don't trust the VA sorry just my opinon.

Anyway

I was thinking that I was getting that (TDIU) because I can't work , (unemployability) and when you get the to be age 63/65 I figured the VA would stop it and have you get on SS?? Which is a lot smaller $$ so actually they just keep paying you at the 100% TDIU rate as long as you live? and draw SS AT THE AGE OF 63/65 TOGATHER?

IS this what you guys are saying?

If I understand correct I will go file for SS ASAP.

When your disaiblitys don't get any better which the difference in TDIU the rating is for a life time? Correct? and if your rated 100 % without TDIU P/T.... then the VA can hit you up with the C & P exams...VA thinks you can have improvement? don't make a lick of sense to me 100% should be 100% your disable and can't work either way.

I know about the 20 year rule with TDIU...NO C&P EXAMES, Correct?

I Thank all of you guys, I appreciate all this information.

[LarryJ]

was thinking that I was getting that (TDIU) because I can't work , (unemployability) and when you get the to be age 63/65 I figured the VA would stop it and have you get on SS?? No.

Which is a lot smaller $$ so actually they just keep paying you at the 100% TDIU rate as long as you live? and draw SS AT THE AGE OF 63/65 TOGATHER? Yes. TDIU and Social Security, both, at the same time. My VA TDIU hits my bank account on the first of each month....my Social Security hits my bank account the third Wednesday of each month.

IS this what you guys are saying? Yes.

If I understand correct I will go file for SS ASAP. Please, do, otherwise you are missing out. Take your wife with you, and file for her, also (Social Security Disability Insurance).