tinnitus Quick Check Of Va Math

[vaf]

Please look this over, do you get 95% rounded up to 100%? Because our VARO here sure doesn't. I used the VA Inquiry System and got a response yesterday from the VA Service Center Manager here that my husband's not at 100% he's at 90%. If I'm right and the VA is wrong, how do I get them to listen to me? I've been at this since last October, after the Board gave my husband 10% for sinusitis, which I think put him over the top. Thank you.

Pituitary Adenoma 60%

Lumbar Spine Condition 40%

Organic Mental Disorder 30%

Bilateral Field Vision Cuts 30%

Adrenal Condition 20%

Spinal Disc Condition 20%

Tinnitus 10%

Scar - Excision of Pilonidal Cyst 10%

Sinusitis 10%

[wallyg]

Vicki

You are perfectly correct. Somebody is ignoring the table and can't do VA math.

Refer them to 38CFR, 4.26 in your NOD of next letter. The rating you cited add up to 95%, whether you use the Table, or do the math. correctly.

[vaf]

Since I think I'm right and the VA's wrong, this is a matter of roughly $1,000 a month since October 1, 2003, so I'm not giving up. I'm really aggravated now, and that's pretty much what's kept us taking a run at this stuff since my husband first filed in 1993. The VA's response to such a simple and direct request has been arrogantly aloof and perfunctory. It's like, "The Great Oz has spoken...." now go away...

I'm writing a letter to the VARO and to the BVA which outlines each of my husband's disabilities, their initial S/C date, and any increases, with effective dates, along the way. I'm including copies of the rating decisions, as well as copies of my inquiries through the VA Inquiry System, and the VARO's responses, which did not answer my questions. Also the combined ratings table with the related percentages circled. I want to see what the VA's got, obviously they're not including something. I've gone through the Internet, the 1-800 number, three local service officers, wrote a letter to the Appeals Management Center, wrote one to the Finance Office at the VARO (thanks, Berta, hope that works), and also one to both my U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, asking them to help me resolve this issue. My next letter will be to Secretary Nicholson, asking why this information is being kept from my husband.

Does that pretty much cover it, is there anything else I should do?

[frosty69]

Vicki

I came up with 90% too, using the va calculator at this url: if this is the sam ething the va uses, don't have a clue, i hope It is wrong, and you are right.

http://www.vamrc.com/calculator/vetcalc.ph...0=0&A11=-&C11=0

[wallyg]

Frosty

You need to read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, it says that it is not completely accurate.

Besides, VA is required to use 38CFR, 4.25, not somebody's attempt to get a spreadsheet to do it for them.

[Guest Namvet6567]

I also checked it via the CFR ratings chart and it is 95% rounded up to 100% - not that I would ever question Wally. Glad to hear the mudslides didn't effect him!