tdiu 100% Schedular Permanent & Total

[bigoc]

Does anyone have or have any experience with 100% P&T schedular.  

I know some would suggest to go for the individual unemployability route but I am not interested in this.  I also hear that 100 schedular is near impossible, I am not interested in this view as I am almost there, even with VA math.

I still able to work but I have a multitude of disabilities incurred in service and I am in the process of getting my claims fully rated as I am lowballed or denied for a few.  Once everything is fixed up according to the VA's own rating criteria I will be 100% schedular.  

So I just wanted to know if anyone has any experience in getting their 100 schedular P&T.  Or any experience with the 100 schedular issue in general.  Nothing against the individual unemployability folks, this is just not my situation. 

[Testvet]

Does anyone have or have any experience with 100% P&T schedular.  

I know some would suggest to go for the individual unemployability route but I am not interested in this.  I also hear that 100 schedular is near impossible, I am not interested in this view as I am almost there, even with VA math.

I still able to work but I have a multitude of disabilities incurred in service and I am in the process of getting my claims fully rated as I am lowballed or denied for a few.  Once everything is fixed up according to the VA's own rating criteria I will be 100% schedular.  

So I just wanted to know if anyone has any experience in getting their 100 schedular P&T.  Or any experience with the 100 schedular issue in general.  Nothing against the individual unemployability folks, this is just not my situation. 

with multiple issues adding the math to get 100% is not easy most veterans get 100% based on a single issue the majority of them for mental health issues, which also includes a clause that states the veteran is not employable which makes them attain the 100% shcedular rating otherwise they would be rated at 70% and still be able to maintain employment. I meant many of them at the Postal Service, they are one of the nations largest employers of disabled veterans.

also when you start dealing with the many issues that make your total higher the VARO seldom grants P&T for 60% issues no matter hom many you have P&T is usually on a single 100% issue or for TDIU good luck on what you are trying to attain but some things just are not attainable

[Pete53]

In 1996 I was awarded 100% Scheduler for Panic Disorder with Major Depression. I was hoping for TDIU cause I did not feel nor do I now that to be 100% schedular you have to be delusional and some other things. I can't work and do not intend to even try. I also was awarded SMC S Rating effective November 2007. I appealed the effective date as I still think that is should be Nov 1993.

For those who do not have panic disorder I have what I think of as flare ups. I have spent days, weeks and even months in my house. When I go somewhere I take my dogs with me or go with a good friend or family. I will dread any trips or thoughts of a trip sometimes obsessively. I gave up trying to explain myself to people a long time ago.

Now for the hard part. I don't think from your description that you will be able to get 100% P&T Scheduler but I do think you have a shot at 100% TDIU almost the same thing and as per many conversations on this Board better protected than Scheduler. You really do need evidence and a strong opionon to win.

[LarryJ]

I don't mean to hi-jack this thread, but I was reading it and thought I'd share something that just happened to me, yesterday.

One of the members of the JWV (my service organization) called me. He wanted some advice as to how to go about "getting 100%".

Then he goes through this so-called "scenario"..........

He says "Imagine that I am now 50%.........then I get 50% more...that'd make me 100%, right?"

I says "Wrong".

He says "Whatsamatter College Boy, you can't add? Of course 50 and 50 = 100."

So, I spend the next 1/2 hour trying to explain to this 75 year old Korea vet, VA's "mathematics", and how it is virtually impossible to start with 50% and EVER wind up with 100%.

His "scenario", by-the-way, involved his son. It appears that his son is 50% and that someone had told his boy that all he had to do was get another 50% and that he and his wife and kids would be "set for life".........a new car......a nice remodeled house.....college for all his kids (I was afraid to ask how many)......space "a" flights to the south of France..........

OH BOY, or, probably better put:

OY VEY!

[Pete53]

If I was in your shoes and I am not I would have told the 75 year old Veteran that you only deal with the Veteran. Using hypothetical s will not work but I do think that Veterans who are rated for a disabling connected condition should plan to see if they can cross the 100% line.

After all by definition if a service connected condition causes a Veteran to not be able to work they should be considered for a full rating.

[vaf]

I'm not sure what the question is, but if you want to know our experience with 100% schedular ratings, here it is.

My husband started out in 1993 50% schedular. We appealed, then he was raised to 80% retroactively. We continued to appeal, then he was raised retroactively to 90%. He applied for TDIU in 1999 and was denied. He decided not to appeal the denial at that point, and I didn't know enough about the process at the time to press the issue. So, we continued to appeal on a schedular basis, and in 2006, he was raised to 100% schedular retroactive to 2003, permanent and total (we did not request P & T, but we would have, had it not been awarded). We continue to appeal this, believing that he should have been rated 100% schedular from the beginning (on CUE basis). It is a struggle, and he eventually filed for social security disability, and got it on the first try (with an attorney's assistance). None of his ratings are for PTSD.

To have as many disabilities as a person would have to warrant a 100% schedular rating, either for one disability or a series of them, it would take a special accommodation or an understanding boss, or both, to be able to work full-time.

[LarryJ]

If I was in your shoes and I am not I would have told the 75 year old Veteran that you only deal with the Veteran. Using hypothetical s will not work but I do think that Veterans who are rated for a disabling connected condition should plan to see if they can cross the 100% line.

After all by definition if a service connected condition causes a Veteran to not be able to work they should be considered for a full rating.

I agree, totally.

But, as far as telling the old fellow that I wouldn't talk to anyone excepting the veteran in this "hypothetical" situation, well, I just couldn't do it.

He's an argumentative old grouch (so he and I have a lot in common) and he lives alone, so I spent a half hour with him.

I still don't know if he understands any better the VA way of doing math, but, that's okay, because the longer I tried to explain it to him, the more confused I became, leaving he and me bewildered, and I thought I knew...........................but, he and I had a good visit.