Posted on May 6, 2019
Can I claim disability if I’m getting involuntarily separated?
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If your discharge is anything but dishonorable, you may file and suggest you do so.
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I am just curious if you are viewing this in the right capacity. I am assuming that you have been in about a year. Is your separation anyway involved to a factor that may lead to disability? What kind of chapter is it? Some of them say in regulation that you can't claim any disability. I am not trying to pry but how has the Army led to you being disabled?
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Yes. If you are being referred to the MEB, the claim will be submitted at the same time the PEB requests a rating from the VA in the IDES program. If you are under an adverse separation you will need to submit prior to seperating under the Benefits at Discharge Delivery (BDD), which has a specific timelime, I think it has to be submitted within 180 days of separation, but check on that because it's important you meet the window.
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SSgt Jim Gilmore
BDD CAN be filed from 180 to 90 days prior to discharge. From 89 day to 1 day before discharge you use Quick Start. If it occurred while on active duty, you file for disability within one year of discharge & your discharge is other than dishonorable, it is PRESUMED to be service connected.
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MSG Robert Conrad
SSgt Jim Gilmore - my understanding is that quickstart is no more. All preservice claims are now BDD, and the timeline only determines processing requirements.
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SSgt Jim Gilmore
If it were no more, I would have mentioned that. It is actually still in the system.
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