P&T Status

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P&T (Permanent & Total) Status

• You can be 100% IU (Individual Unemployability or TDIU) with or without P&T status

• You can be 100% schedular with or without P&T status.

• You must be either 100% schedular or 100% IU to be P&T. That is what the 'T' is for (Total)

• P&T=Permanent & Total which gives you no future reviews (unless you request one by filing a new compensation claim or filing for an increase) and more benefits for dependents including dependent education assistance (Chapter 35) and if not Tricare eligible, healthcare through CHAMPVA.

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Some people already have Permanent & Total (P&T) and don't realize it. Log in to the va.gov website. Look under 'Records'. Click 'Download your benefit letters'. On the next screen click 'Get Your VA Benefit Letters'. Next: View Letters Select 'Benefit Summary and Service Verification Letter' To see if you are P&T, the statement will say "You are considered to be totally and permanently disabled solely due to your service-connected disabilities."

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If you are 100% schedular or 100% IU you can file for P&T status is you don't have it. There is no legal timeframe when P&T status is automatically given EXCEPT if you have been IU or 100% schedular for 20 years.

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The simplest way for a veteran to verify that he/she is P & T is that VA will normally send a VA form 21-8760 in the veterans' rating decision packet.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED
PERMANENT AND TOTAL DISABILITY
BENEFITS FOR VETERANS
VA FORM
SEP 2006 21-8760 SUPERSEDES VA FORM 21-8760, JUN 2005,
WHICH WILL NOT BE USED.
Veterans who have a permanent and total service-connected disability due to
Information concerning these and other Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Federal, State, or local benefits may be obtained from
your nearest VA office or any national service organization representative. You may call VA toll-free at 1-800-827-1000 (Hearing
Impaired TDD line 1-800-829-4833) or contact VA by Internet at http://iris.va.gov.
SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
SPECIAL HOME ADAPTATION GRANT
The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers several benefit programs, including Social Security retirement and disability
benefits and Medicare. Veterans may be entitled to Social Security work credits for active service performed after September 15, 1940.
For more information about Social Security benefits and credits, call SSA toll-free at 1-800-772-1213 (Hearing Impaired TTY line
1-800-325-0778). You may also contact SSA by Internet at http://www.ssa.gov/.
Veterans who have a permanent and total service-connected disability due to
blindness in both eyes, having light perception only, combined with the loss or loss of use of one lower extremity, or
the loss or loss of use of one lower extremity, together with residuals of organic disease or injury or the loss or loss of use of one
upper extremity, which so affect the functions of balance or propulsion as to prevent locomotion without the aid of braces,
crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, or
the loss or loss of use of both hands
blindness in both eyes with 5/200 visual acuity or less, or
may be entitled to a VA grant of not more than $10,000 to pay the cost of remodeling a house in which they reside. You may contact
VA as shown above for additional information or an application.
the loss or loss of use of both lower extremities, which prevents locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a
wheelchair, or
loss or loss of use of both upper extremities, which prevents use of the arms at or above the elbows
may be entitled to a VA grant of not more than 50 percent, or up to a maximum of $50,000, to pay part of the cost of building, buying
or remodeling a specially adapted house or to pay indebtedness on such a home already acquired. You may contact VA as shown
above for additional information or an application.
AUTOMOBILE AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT BENEFITS
Veterans who have a permanent and total service-connected disability due to
loss or permanent loss of use of one or both hands, or
loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, or
permanent impairment of vision in both eyes with a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with corrective
glasses, or central visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such
an extent that the widest diameter of visual field has an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees in the better eye
may be entitled to financial assistance in purchasing a conveyance and adaptive equipment for automobiles and similar vehicles. You
may contact VA as shown above for additional information or an application.
COMMISSARY AND EXCHANGE PRIVILEGES
Honorably discharged veterans with 100 percent service-connected disability, and their dependents and unremarried surviving
spouses, are entitled to unlimited exchange and commissary store privileges. Certification of total disability and DD Form 1172,
Application for Uniformed Services Identification Card - DEERS Enrollment, will be provided by VA. You may contact the nearest
VA regional office for assistance.
DENTAL TREATMENT
Veterans who have a permanent and total, service-connected disability may be entitled to free dental treatment. You may contact the
nearest VA medical center for assistance.
Generally, the veteran's spouse and the veteran's children between 18 and 26 years old are entitled to DEA when the veteran has a
permanent and total service-connected disability. DEA is also payable to the surviving spouse and children of a veteran who died as
a result of service-connected disability or had a permanent and total service-connected disability at the time of death. You may
obtain additional information or an application by visiting our website at http://www.gibill.va.gov, contacting the VA regional office
where your records are located, or calling 1-888-GI BILL-1 (Hearing Impaired TDD line 1-888-442-4551).
VA FORM 21-8760, SEP 2006
BENEFITS FOR DEPENDENTS
A job and job training counseling service program, employment placement service program, and job training placement service
program are available to a spouse of any veteran who has a permanent and total service-connected disability or had a permanent and
total service-connected disability at the time of death.
DEPENDENTS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE (DEA)
CIVILIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL PROGRAM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
(CHAMPVA)
JOB COUNSELING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
CHAMPVA provides medical care coverage for the spouse or child of a veteran who has permanent and total service-connected
disability, and the surviving spouse or child of a veteran who has died of a service-connected disability, had a permanent and total
service-connected disability at the time of death, or who died on active duty, if the spouse or child does not have entitlement to care
under the Department of Defense's TRICARE Program. Application for this benefit may be made to the VA Health Administration
Center, CHAMPVA Eligibility, P.O. Box 469028, Denver, CO 80246-9028. For more information on CHAMPVA, please access our
website at http://www.va.gov/hac/ or call the Health Administration Center at 1-800-733-8387.