Retirement Pay And Va Disability Pay

[LILS]

Hi Gurus,

I'm hearing different answers on this one from non-retirees/non-VA people. Need help. If I am rated 100% schedular (not mental; can fully work) when I retire, how does this affect my retirement check? I've heard the word offset used when there is a VA check and a retirement check. Or do you get your full retirement check AND your VA % rating check (the money posted on the VA website)? Can someone please tell me how that works or where to find the info? I searched for it, but I keep seeing different answers or posts from years ago. As you can see by my questions, it's kind of hard to word what I want to say, to even search for the answer.

In other words, if my retirement check is $2000/mon (after taxes) and my 100% VA rating is $2200, does that mean I would receive $4200/mon? Or does some $ come out of one of those checks, due to the fact I am receiving both? Or does it all depend on specific circumstances? Does anyone even know what I'm talking about? Do I even know what I'm talking about? :D

[LILS]

The same restoration % applies to everyone for the current year we are getting CRDP, not based on when you retired or were SC'd.

While the restoration rate is less than 100%, it just saves them (costs us) money by not giving us 100% of the offset back as CRDP.

What you get back each month is (100% of BaseTableAmt) + (Restoration% * (VA amount - BaseTableAmt)).

So each year as Restoration % grows closer to 100%, we each get closer and closer to getting all of the VA amount back as CRDP.

Also, this assumes you are not rated unemployable or 100%, since then the restoration % is automatically 100% and you would get the full VA amount back as CRDP.

My sidebar shows I'm actually only 30% SC now, so I don't (yet) qualify for CRDP. But I hope changes in the rating decision will push me to at/over 50% SC so I can start getting the CRDP.

Thanks so much! I finally get it. I wish you luck on getting your CRDP in the near future.

[Thad]

You're welcome -- luck to you too!

May be different if you leave service with a disability %, but JMHO from trying to get the % now:

Since you're still in-service: records, records, records.

1) Make sure the SMRs keep mentioning what's chronic or ongoing or unchanged. VA finds it easy to say that (after years of) in-service complaints, the conditions stopped being mentioned, so they must have been transitory.

2) Make sure that your separation physical lists it ALL.

Thad