Special Monthly Compensation - (SMC-S)

[Peteet]

Hello, I am 100% permanant & total & trying to find out if I am eligile for SMC-S.  I am rated at 70% for depression/PTSD/Military Sexual Trauma, I do not have any other ratings higher than 50%.  Am I automatically eligible for SMC-S housebound? 

I called the VA but no one could explain SMC-S to me?!?!  

Confused & Lost, please help!  I want to file a claim for SMC-S.  Can I get it?

 

Thanks

Confused & Lost Veteran.

[broncovet]

There are 2 ways to get to SMC S.  

1.  If you have a "single" 100 percent plus an additional combined 60 percent, seperate and distinct from each other, this is statutory SMC S.  

2.  If you are housebound in fact. This generally requires a c and p exam and for the doctor to state you are substantially confined to the premisis.  

     Based on your post, you dont qualify under number 1 (statuatory smc s), but I dont know if you qualify under number 2, housebound in fact. 

[El Train]

https://www.va.gov/disability/compensation-rates/special-monthly-compensation-rates/

You automatically get it if you qualify, unless they over looked it.  But I doubt it.  If you request a C&P for it, they're probably going to look at all your ratings and reassess.  You could get increased, or decreased.  How bad do you want SMC?

 

[broncovet]

They can not decrease your rating "based solely" on asking for an increase.  They must reduce you USING THE CRITERIA.  

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/38/3.344