tdiu TDIU at 20 Year Mark

[john999]

If any of us do hit the 20 year mark being TDIU for that entire 20 years then I assume your TDIU rating becomes permanent and untouchable.  Does this mean the VA just grants you a permanent rate of 100% or a permanent rate of TDIU?  I sure won't be young enough

to go out and start working as I will be 71 years old when I get 20 years at TDIU.   However, according to what I understand I could go get a job if I wanted to and nothing the VA could do about it.  I just wish the VA would convert all of us P&T TDIU vets to straight 100% so we would not have periodic scares regarding having TDIU taken away when we reach full retirement age.

[john999]

I can tell you for sure that SSA/Medicare checks your income with about a year lag time.  What I found out was that my premium for Medicare Part B was increased by almost 70 bucks a month because I have some investments and back in 2014 I took some capital gains.  Now in 2016 my Medicare premium is increasing by the 70 bucks I mentioned.   Someone is awake at bean counter's office at SSA.   My passive income does fluctuate from year to year depending on what my account manager and me decide.  VA, Worker's Compensation and SSA do communicate if they think we are getting double pay or making a dime too much from anybody.     Too bad they do not communicate when a vet is trying to show he is TDIU or 100% and has been getting SSDI for ten years.  I have been TDIU for 15 years and I mail in the Employment Questionaire every year and sometimes every six months.  The VA never acknowledges receipt or non receipt.  The ideal situation for vets according to our government is for them to get just enough so that they do not die in the street and embarrass anyone.  Everybody loves us except when it comes time to pay the bill.  They are going to build a monument to WW1 vets now that all are dead and can't make any claims.

 

 

[Buck52]

Gastone

My brain tells me to but my rear end won't let me....work

I definitely understand what your saying here, I just don't have any hobbies that would make me any $$..I'm all for a veteran that wants to make a little extra  I use to mow yards to make ends meet before I got IU. But now I am unable too.

not working for the last 20 yeas has put a burden on my body I believe.

I use to exercise to keep a little fit  but I don't exercise anymore because of my DJD In both knees, even just out walking kills me

[JR Reihs]

Pretty good info and conversation on this subject. I will hit the 20 year mark next year,and after reading alot about this, I concluded that the VA would have to treat a P&T IU claim the same as any other under the 20 year rule, meaning you keep it forever minus any finding of fraud. In the 19 years I have had this rating, I have only filled out one VA questionnaire, and when I do hit the 20 year mark I will be 53.

I have thought about doing something that will give me some extra change over the years, but have really never found anything yet that interested me. I tried going back to school in the beginning as I was really young when this was awarded, but VOC Rehab shut that down pretty quick, so I am thinking about hitting the VA pretty hard about the IL program and see where that may take me.

I would like to thank GUAYMASJim for post on this subject, as it has shed some real light on the road I might take next year, and I am sure the VA is not going to like me after I start. 

[Gastone]

GJims experience and info, should put any worries that IU Vets have regarding their IU rating and the 20 yr Lock, to rest.

You might want to review a couple posts AskNod had awhile back, regarding his eventual success with the VA Chapter 31 (IL) program. The Readers Digest Version, exceptional benefits are available, you have to ask for them and then be prepared for a long battle, if denied.

Semper Fi

[JR Reihs]

3 hours ago, Gastone said:

GJims experience and info, should put any worries that IU Vets have regarding their IU rating and the 20 yr Lock, to rest.

You might want to review a couple posts AskNod had awhile back, regarding his eventual success with the VA Chapter 31 (IL) program. The Readers Digest Version, exceptional benefits are available, you have to ask for them and then be prepared for a long battle, if denied.

Semper Fi

Yes, I should have added that I know and have followed AskNod's IL VA drilling. I give him big Props for seeing this through to where it landed, I am sure there are some at the VA that still feels he gave them a dry Colonoscopy, and that should make all of us feel good.

I know I wont push that far unless they screw with me much, but I will see this through to where I get what I ask for. Years ago they bought me a computer, and I let it ride, I won't be that naive this round.