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I just received a 10% increase for tinnitus, but my overall percentage did not changed as of today. I know I would not get additional compensation but would I get retro pay if at the time that I filed which was last March 2017 it would change my compensation from 30% to 40%? Meaning as of today it did not made an impact but it did when I first filed.
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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Disability
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If you had received a rating that caused your compensation pay to increase then you would have received retro pay from the date you filed for that disability that caused your disability rating to go up.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
The only thing is, sometimes an increase for a particular ailment never actually increases your overall rating. A 10% increase for hearing may not have any effect on the overall disability percentage and then there would be no increase in pay or payment of back pay.
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WO1 Nate Lop
Combined Ratings
If VA finds that a Veteran has multiple disabilities, VA uses the Combined Ratings Table to calculate a combined disability rating. Disability ratings are not additive, meaning that if a Veteran has one disability rated 60% and a second disability 20%, the combined rating is not 80%. This is because subsequent disability ratings are applied to an already disabled Veteran, so the 20% disability is applied to a Veteran who is already 60% disabled. Below you will find the steps VA takes to combine ratings for more than one disability and examples using the Combined Ratings Table to illustrate how combined ratings are calculated.
The disabilities are first arranged in the exact order of their severity, beginning with the greatest disability and then combined with use of Combined Ratings Table below
The degree of one disability will be read in the left column and the degree of the other in the top row, whichever is appropriate
The figures appearing in the space where the column and row intersect will represent the combined value of the two
This combined value is rounded to the nearest 10%
If there are more than two disabilities, the combined value for the first two will be found as previously described for two disabilities
The exact combined value (without rounding yet), is combined with the degree of the third disability
This process continues for subsequent disabilities and the final number is rounded to the nerest 10%
Examples of Combining Two Disabilities
If a Veteran has a 50 percent disability and a 30 percent disability, the combined value will be found to be 65 percent, but the 65 percent must be converted to 70 percent to represent the final degree of disability.
Similarly, with a disability of 40 percent, and another disability of 20 percent, the combined value is found to be 52 percent, but the 52 percent must be converted to the nearest degree divisible by 10, which is 50 percent.
Example of Combining Three Disabilities
If there are three disabilities ratable at 60 percent, 40 percent, and 20 percent, respectively, the combined value for the first two will be found opposite 60 and under 40 and is 76 percent. This 76 will be found in the left column, then the 20 rating in the top row. The intersection of these two ratings is 81. Thus, the final rating will be rounded to 80%.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/rates-index.asp
Combined Ratings
If VA finds that a Veteran has multiple disabilities, VA uses the Combined Ratings Table to calculate a combined disability rating. Disability ratings are not additive, meaning that if a Veteran has one disability rated 60% and a second disability 20%, the combined rating is not 80%. This is because subsequent disability ratings are applied to an already disabled Veteran, so the 20% disability is applied to a Veteran who is already 60% disabled. Below you will find the steps VA takes to combine ratings for more than one disability and examples using the Combined Ratings Table to illustrate how combined ratings are calculated.
The disabilities are first arranged in the exact order of their severity, beginning with the greatest disability and then combined with use of Combined Ratings Table below
The degree of one disability will be read in the left column and the degree of the other in the top row, whichever is appropriate
The figures appearing in the space where the column and row intersect will represent the combined value of the two
This combined value is rounded to the nearest 10%
If there are more than two disabilities, the combined value for the first two will be found as previously described for two disabilities
The exact combined value (without rounding yet), is combined with the degree of the third disability
This process continues for subsequent disabilities and the final number is rounded to the nerest 10%
Examples of Combining Two Disabilities
If a Veteran has a 50 percent disability and a 30 percent disability, the combined value will be found to be 65 percent, but the 65 percent must be converted to 70 percent to represent the final degree of disability.
Similarly, with a disability of 40 percent, and another disability of 20 percent, the combined value is found to be 52 percent, but the 52 percent must be converted to the nearest degree divisible by 10, which is 50 percent.
Example of Combining Three Disabilities
If there are three disabilities ratable at 60 percent, 40 percent, and 20 percent, respectively, the combined value for the first two will be found opposite 60 and under 40 and is 76 percent. This 76 will be found in the left column, then the 20 rating in the top row. The intersection of these two ratings is 81. Thus, the final rating will be rounded to 80%.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/rates-index.asp
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