Big Fat "thanks" For All The Help From Hadit.com - We Did It!

[CCC]

Just a quick note here to say thank you for all of the help you guys have given us here. We got our 100% approval letter today! We worked for a long time for this, and you guys, as usual, were a wealth of information, and I swear, I don't think we could have done it without you.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I'm not finished. They rated him, and are only paying him backpay for a very short time. That, to me, is in dispute, and will be appealled. For this, I have a question.

Hubs told me that there's a certain percentage point that, once you get there, they automatically bump you up to 100% as unemployable. Does anyone know what that is? He thought it was 75 or 80% but wasn't sure.

[deanbrt]

I am no expert on VA math, I am afraid...

[Philip Rogers]

CCC - if you click on the link, in my first post on this subject, you'll see the combined ratings table(tbird also has a link on the Hadit home page) whcih explains how the VA figures the total. They don't use standard addition but base it on the "whole person" concept and once a claimant has a disability, they are no longer whole, or 100%. The table explains it thoroughly and if you search here you'll find many posts explaining how it works.

pr

[CCC]

Thanks, Phillip. I actually did click on the link, but it made less sense to me than quantum physics. I will search a little and see if I can figure out how to read it.

[Capt.]

Hello CCC and Phillip,

That is an excellant way to describe it Phillip. CCC just remember what Phillip is saying. ONCE you get a disability then the next rateable decision percentage is taken from the REMAINDER of the BALENCE . So say you are rated at 40 percent initially ,,,,,,,,that leaves 60 percent. That is your BALENCE left to use up. So the next rating percentage will be taken from that 60 percent. Not from another 100 percent. And so then the next one will be less and so forth . Try to work out some practice problems on your calculator and you can see what Phillip is saying. Its really not confusing once you see the VAs method. But I'll admit I had trouble for the first 6 months until someone showed me and explained it out. NEVER GIVE UP. God Bless, C.C.

Edited November 5, 2012 by Capt.Contaminate

[CCC]

Thanks, CC. :D

[Philip Rogers]

CCC - in your case once you're 60%, they take 10% of the remaining 40%, which is 4% and it's added to the 60%, which now makes you 64%, then they take 10% of the remaining 36%, which is 3.6%, which they round to 4% and add it to the 64% and that totals 68%. Now the last 10% is taken from the remaining 32%, which is 3.2%, rounded down to 3%, which is added to the 68% for a grand total of 71%, which is then rounded down to 70% . . . and there you have it. Simple, huh!

pr

Edited November 5, 2012 by Philip Rogers