TheOtherWhiteMeat

If Iranian troops are concentrating near the Iraq border, then you know what/where to target.

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Do y’all have to prove y’all aren’t drinking and that type of stuff to receive the payments?

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Many people with mental illnesses drink, it's usually the reason they do drink.

But no, you don't have to prove you don't drink because that's impossible to do. Illegal drugs is different, but only if you get arrested and the sentence is 30+ days. Same applies to a DUI that gets you 30+ days. I don't know if they take the benefits away, but they do suspend them.

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Not uncommon for veterans of that age.

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No, if you combine the hearing loss from deployment or your MOS, or both, with age then you can get 100% P&T for it. I've seen it a few times and the ones I've seen are legit deaf.

He said he use to be a VSO.

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actually hardly anyone said that. there were one or two guys who might have said something about disability should be combat related, but most of us who take issue with the system arent talking about legit injuries, be they combat or garrison related. a guy who spends years jumping out of planes is going to have issues that he should be compensated for whether he ever saw combat or not. most of us get that.

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100%

The beef is with the scam. Not the truly injured or ill.

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4 years longer than 99 percent of Americans.

You figs love freedom as long as someone else provides it for you.

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Even though this may be true, it doesn't mean that there's not people scamming, there certainly are. I think most of it is the younger/newer enlistees racking their medical profile. Your Gulf War and Vietnam guys don't/didn't even know that Veterans had potential benefits available after service due to injury or mental illness. That had a lot to do with the way the VA determined eligibility before, say, 2018. I think that's when the PACT Act was passed...?
When I got out I went with a guy a served with to see a VA rep (I got out JAN 2015). He had a jacked up soldier due to an IED that flipped his vehicle on its side. The VA rep basically told him he didn't have a case. He eventually tried again in 2017 and ended up with 40% disability rating. It was harder then that it is now.
Now they have specialist that know how to work the system, find one and you'll get a rating much higher than the typical 10% for tinnutis. I don't know how they do it, but I know a guy that served in the Navy for 4 years and didn't serve in a combat role, also didn't get injured during a training exercise. He hired a guy last year (one of these "specialists"), and 4 months later had an 80% rating. I have no idea how they pulled that off because he didn't have anything in his military jacket that would back up any claim that he made, which is a requirement.

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it's the perfectly health 18-22 year olds whose full time job while they are active duty is "getting it in my record" for bullshite nebulous injuries that cant be proven or disproven.

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It is a problem, I just don't know how prevalent it is, I guess I've been out for too long. I would think that would be pretty easy to weed out though, also, hit them as hard as they can for fraud.

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I feel the 100% designation has become too easy to obtain

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It's not easy. Especially with a P&T rating, it's the rarest of 3 protected ratings.
Oddly, there are a decent amount of people with 80% ratings, but draw 100% compensation levels. To my knowledge, those people are considered individually unemployable. I don't know exactly how that one works.

BTW, the fraud rate for VA compensation is less than one one-hundredth of a percent. They prosecute less than 200 people per year for VA fraud. Yes, the number is higher than that, it has to be. The VA is pretty damn thorough when evaluating claims, but it's still the government.

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once you hit 55

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55 years old is when they, typically, stop having the vet retest for certain things. They use 55 as the age that any condition you have will not be expected to get any better.

I'd also like to point out that any VA rating you have may not be for your lifetime. You can be 100% and not get it for life. The P&T designation is what is generally lifetime, and not all 100% has the P&T designation. But even the P&T can be challenged if they have evidence your condition has improved, although that is a very rare challenge. P&T means permanent and total, for those that don't know. If you're P&T there's usually a damn good reason.

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I didn't know I had to list my ratings in a discussion about the percentage of veterans with a rating.

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I will, I'm 100% P&T. I've said a few times in this very thread that there's fraud. My stance is that if you're legit, then you don't have to worry about an audit. To me, be my guest, I'm safe.

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That's not what it says.

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Not at all, most disabled vets are drawing around the 40% mark. 18.45% get 100%. 17.3 get 10%. 5.69% get 50%. With about .50% getting 0%. Then the rest are those in the 30-40% area.

40% gets you $774 a month.