There is again, some confusion over schedular vs. total percentage ratings... T-Bird has put a handy link on the Hadit home page at the bottom that explains this. Yet, just to reiterate:
A Schedular rating is NOT arrived at by simply adding the percentages of an award.
If Joe vet is awarded 30% for PTSD 30% for Knee Injury and 10% for tinnitus... their "schedular" rating is NOT 70%.
WHY is this important? The VA uses the schedular rating for thier compensation rate tables, so Joe Vet is not paid under 70% on the compensation tables... he is actually paid...
30% of 100 = 30
30% of 70 (remainder) = 21
30+21 = 51
10% of 49 (again 49 is the remainder) = 4.9
51+4.9 = 55.9
VA rounds up over 55 (or 65 or 75 etc) and down below 54, (and 64 etc)
so the schedular rating of Joe Vet is 60%
Joe Vet then goes to the compensation and rate tables under 60% and chooses the line that applies to him married-not married children no children etc.
I know this is basic, but a lot of new vets aren't aware what "schedular" means. The practical effect is that the higher you go rating wise the harder it is to get a 100% combined rating. You might suspisously think that the VA put the LARGEST pay jump in the 70-100% rating areas because its very hard to get to 80% with combined ratings as each additional rating weighs less and less because the total remaining "body" or "health" points gets less and less. You start with 100 body or health points and those are what you subtract from. If you were a suspicious person... and wondered WHY the steps werent just percentages of 100, as compared to the 100% pay rate.
See if they did the rate tables like they should then 10% of 2400 would be $240 and youd go up in $240 increments for every 10% you increased. Thats not the case though... its like they wanted to make it as hard as possible to get the real big dollars from them or something... Nah, the VA wouldnt be underhanded like that... would they?
Actually "schedular" comes from the Veteran Affairs Scedule for rating disabilities..often referred to as the VASRD
Anyway... had a couple of people ask, so again T-Bird has it on the home page as well.
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There is again, some confusion over schedular vs. total percentage ratings... T-Bird has put a handy link on the Hadit home page at the bottom that explains this. Yet, just to reiterate:
A Schedular rating is NOT arrived at by simply adding the percentages of an award.
If Joe vet is awarded 30% for PTSD 30% for Knee Injury and 10% for tinnitus... their "schedular" rating is NOT 70%.
WHY is this important? The VA uses the schedular rating for thier compensation rate tables, so Joe Vet is not paid under 70% on the compensation tables... he is actually paid...
30% of 100 = 30
30% of 70 (remainder) = 21
30+21 = 51
10% of 49 (again 49 is the remainder) = 4.9
51+4.9 = 55.9
VA rounds up over 55 (or 65 or 75 etc) and down below 54, (and 64 etc)
so the schedular rating of Joe Vet is 60%
Joe Vet then goes to the compensation and rate tables under 60% and chooses the line that applies to him married-not married children no children etc.
I know this is basic, but a lot of new vets aren't aware what "schedular" means. The practical effect is that the higher you go rating wise the harder it is to get a 100% combined rating. You might suspisously think that the VA put the LARGEST pay jump in the 70-100% rating areas because its very hard to get to 80% with combined ratings as each additional rating weighs less and less because the total remaining "body" or "health" points gets less and less. You start with 100 body or health points and those are what you subtract from. If you were a suspicious person... and wondered WHY the steps werent just percentages of 100, as compared to the 100% pay rate.
See if they did the rate tables like they should then 10% of 2400 would be $240 and youd go up in $240 increments for every 10% you increased. Thats not the case though... its like they wanted to make it as hard as possible to get the real big dollars from them or something... Nah, the VA wouldnt be underhanded like that... would they?
Actually "schedular" comes from the Veteran Affairs Scedule for rating disabilities..often referred to as the VASRD
Anyway... had a couple of people ask, so again T-Bird has it on the home page as well.
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