If a claimant already 100% schedular for a single disability/condition, why is the VA allowed to use the combined ratings table to get to the 60% needed to get an SMC(s) award?? From what I've seen in cases I've read, at the BVA & CAVC, the VA never lets it get that far. The way I see it is that claimant is already rated 100% and shouldn't have use the combined table. Once you are 100% the next ratings should be just added to total the 60% but that's not what the VA does. If anyone can explain it to me, I'd appreciate it.
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If a claimant already 100% schedular for a single disability/condition, why is the VA allowed to use the combined ratings table to get to the 60% needed to get an SMC(s) award?? From what I've seen in cases I've read, at the BVA & CAVC, the VA never lets it get that far. The way I see it is that claimant is already rated 100% and shouldn't have use the combined table. Once you are 100% the next ratings should be just added to total the 60% but that's not what the VA does. If anyone can explain it to me, I'd appreciate it.
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No matter how you say it or look at it, those are the criteria, rules, or regulations. Veterans must have a single 100% rating or a single TDIU rating and then the additional 60% for the SMC-S rating.
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