Posted on 12/28/2023 8:26:10 AM PST by Red Badger
Review 2024 Veterans disability compensation rates. Use our compensation benefits rate tables to find your monthly payment amount. We base your monthly payment amount on your disability rating and details about your dependent family members.
How to use the tables to find your monthly payment Find your basic rate
Go to the compensation rates for your disability rating. On the Basic monthly rates table, find the amount for your disability rating and dependent status. This is your basic monthly rate.
Example (Veteran with no children): If you’re a Veteran with a 30% disability rating, and you have a dependent spouse (no dependent parents or children), your basic monthly rate would be $586.31 each month.
Find your added amounts, if any apply
If your spouse receives Aid and Attendance benefits or you have more than one child, you may qualify for additional monthly payment amounts as listed in the Added amounts table.
Learn more about Aid and Attendance benefits
First, determine your basic rate.
Example (Veteran with children): If you’re a Veteran with a 70% disability rating, and you have a spouse, plus 3 dependent children under the age of 18, you would start with the basic rate of $1,968.28 (for a Veteran with a spouse and 1 child).
Next, look at the Added amounts table. Find the amount for children under age 18 ($72.00).
Since your basic rate already provides payment for 1 child, you would add the rate of $72.00 for each additional child (so $72 x 2).
If your spouse receives Aid and Attendance, you would also add $134 (which is the added amount for a spouse receiving Aid and Attendance, for a Veteran with a 70% disability rating).
In our example of a Veteran with 70% disability rating, your total monthly payment amount would be:
$1,968.28 basic rate (1 spouse, 1 child) +$72 (second child under 18) +$72 (third child under 18) +$134 (spouse who receives Aid and Attendance) Total $2,246.28
As a combat vet who spent years, literally - in the sandbox, I’m getting sick of all the broke-dicks and disability moochers.
Or why I never go to reunions anymore.
Fat fk welfare queens who did something kool once but think the world owes them a living and should kiss their asses forever more.
I’m a Vietnam era vet...who never saw combat or suffered anything more than food poisoning from Army chow...who knows damn well that there are many guys who have very real disabilities because of their service. Yes,it seems highly likely that there are fakers...probably many fakers...but don’t try to suggest that every guy on disability is a faker. That’s what your post seems to be suggesting.
“Fat fk welfare queens who did something kool once but think the world owes them a living and should kiss their asses forever more.”
Like the Agent Orange vet with terminal prostate cancer.
Some welfare queen.
I was assigned to an Army hospital for a while in 1970. Some of the things I saw still make me weep.
Normal military life and work cause disabilities in females, their bodies aren’t built for it, and emotionally and mentally they are stressed by simply being among the men in men’s work which results in them filing claims from basic training on and in an incredible rate of non-combat related PTSD claims.
Throw that in with PTSD claims becoming routine for everyone, that and non-combat physical disabilities and free female care at the VA will be draining future military budgets while also increasing the daily cost of military activities as the ‘experts’ modify everything to help deal with the issue, weakening training, more resources spent on feminizing military culture, etc.
“but don’t try to suggest that every guy on disability is a faker. That’s what your post seems to be suggesting.”
Because that’s what he meant.
” VA will be draining future military budgets “
It’s separate from the DOD budget.
Oh, but the females will be draining both budgets, when it comes to medical care the females are huge and constant consumers of it.
My God bless and keep you sir.
If military disability is the only thing a person has for income they are in for a miserable existence.
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