Are all benefits for 100% included with this award even though it's 90% SC?

[sovereign]

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Include?	Information	Value
Include the information in this row	You have one or more service-connected disabilities:	Yes
Include the information in this row	Your combined service-connected evaluation is:	90%
Include the information in this row and the one below it	Your current monthly award amount is: The effective date of the last change to your current award was:	$3139.67  April 01, 2018
Include the information in this row	You are being paid at the 100 percent rate because you are unemployable due to your service-connected disabilities:	Yes
Include the information in this row	You are considered to be totally and permanently disabled due solely to your service-connected disabilities: The effective date of when you became totally and permanently disabled due to your service-connected disabilities:	Yes December 21, 2017

 

[brokensoldier244th]

Looks like it. Good job, welcome to the club (not that its necessarily something to be proud of). 100%IU should count for Dependent Education Assistance, too, if you have kids or spouse, but im assuming not since I don't see a notation on there about that. 

[sovereign]

Thanks for your reply Brokensoldier244t.

I actually do have a spouse and I don't know exactly what I'm looking at with all this. I just saw all of this on ebenefits for a claim I filled out in April. I haven't gotten the official letter yet. I have a lot to look into. They just changed my rating for my misaligned jaw/mouth to 20% from 0% and added the TDIU.

I'm looking at 20,000 dollars worth of work with a whole host of issues because when it was broken in two places they didn't notice for over a week (I had multiple injuries), so it set in misalignment. It has created many many issues. That was in 1979. 

[broncovet]

Ebenefits is unrelaible.  This said, congratulations on your TDIU.  

Dec may or may not be your effective date.  They often put december of the previous year because we often get raises with Cola each year, so your compensation changes and ebenefits often inaccuratly reports the effective date as december of the previous year.  

By the way, did I mention ebenefits is unreliable?  

[brokensoldier244th]

Ouch. Thats a long time to live in pain. My sister is a dental specialist and she said that a lot of times with stuff like that they have to rebreak the jaw to realign, or do it in combination with other surgery. The rehab from that is a literal pain, and they have to immobalize your jaw, so fluid foods only and no talking for like 3-6 months. UGH. Good luck with all that. Check with your COunty Assessor/Treas, too. Most states and counties have a percentage off your homestead and property taxes up to 100% if you are 100% disabled. Car registration taxes too, though wheel tax and what not is not part of that. Can save you a BOAT load of money there. 

Look into the Dependant education stuff, too. You can't use it, but your wife could to go back to school up to the full amount of time, and a lot of universities and colleges have partial to full tuition forgiveness for dependents of 100% veterans. My son starts at UNL in the fall and his base tuition is covered for all four years, so his scholarships and grants go to pay for housing and books, and thats before the DEA kicks in. He'll still work while in school, but when he gets out he'll have no debt and a hell of a starter savings account. 

[sovereign]

Thanks Broncovet- So true with ebenefits. I filed a claim in December after 26 years when I originally filed and that was approved. Then I filed again in April, so I just thought they grouped it all under the December claim? Guess we will see.

[sovereign]

Good info Brokensoldier244th- thank you. Yes, re-breaking my jaw is part of the process... braces, speech therapy to learn to use my tongue differently, etc. ugh. They think it will take about two years total. I'm just hoping I can do it outside the VA. Also, I'm in a state with good benefits, so that's exciting.