Combine Rating Question

[JayBrown1]

I am a little confused about my rating. On ebenefits it shows my benefit information and it is as follow:

You have one or more service-connected disabilities: Yes

Your combined service connected evaluation is: 100%

You are being paid at the 100% rate because you are

Unemployable due to your service-connected disabilities. Yes

You are considered to be totally and permanently disabled

due to your service-connected disabilities. Yes

My question is, If my combine rating is 100% should it still say I am being paid at the 100%rate because I am unemployable? When I was 90% I was awarded IU but now I am 100%. I was awarded 100% and they dated it back to 2009.

[Philip Rogers]

To Pete: I did get the letter and it states my combine rating is 100% total and permanent with no further exams. But they are still sending me employment forms to fill out.

JayBrown1 - I would send them a letter stating that you are now 100%, not TDIU, and the VA doesn't require employment forms to be filled out by veterans rated 100% P&T. I'd attach a copy with the award statement "highlighted." jmo

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[63SIERRA]

shouldnt you get SMK for clothing allowance as well, surely you must wear special shoes if your legs are now different lenghts?

[COOL BREEZE]

So, the ratings all add up to 90%. How does the 10%, not to be combined get added at the end? I have been adding what I am expecting shortly on the low end of the scale for mine. I just can't figure out how to add multiple bilatral's in.Do they do all of them at the end, plus 10 each or what?

[JayBrown1]

@63Sierra I get clothing allowance for my braces and the pay for built up shoes.

@CoolBreeze I am not sure how my was added but all the documents I have says I am 100% even in my Veterans Health Benefits Handbook on page 7 it says combine rating 100%. The letter I got talk about all the different benefits I may be entitled to receive like if I had any student loans I may be able to get them discharged, life insurance and having premiums waived.

The award letter from the VBA states "The overall or combined evaluation is 100% effective January 9, 2008. We do not add the individual percentages of each condition to determine your combine rating. Instead, we use a combined rating table that considers the effect from the most serious to the least serious conditions."

[71M10]

I imagine this is that Quality VA data management. You were checked off as being TDIU before your 100% schedular and the box wasn't unchecked (which may very well be a proper way to look at it, the unemployability issue hasn't changed) and the status on that checkbox is what puts that entry in the computer.

[JayBrown1]

@71M10 That makes plenty sense!