Disability Benefits
30-40% Rating

Disability benefits rating goes from 0% to 100%. However, financial compensation starts from 10% and higher. If you’re rated at under 50% you do not get a separate check. Instead, the income is used to reduce your other taxable income. Only those rated at 50% or higher gets a separate check. However, there are many benefits that starts with a 0% rating and goes through to a 100% rating.

These are the benefits for a 30-40% rating.

Monthly Compensation
Those rated at 30-40% will start receiving monthly compensation. It will not be a separate check. Instead, the income will be used to reduce your other taxable income.

Low-Cost Life Insurance
Veterans Affairs Life Insurance (VALife).

Hiring Preference
10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring.

Free Healthcare
No cost health care and prescription medications for service-connected disabilities (income limits must be met).

Travel Allowance
Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA-authorized health care facility.

Commissaries/Exchanges/MWR
Commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.

Home Loan Fee Waiver
Waiver of VA funding fee for VA home loan.

VR&E
Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment (VR&E) (with a serious employment handicap).

Burial
Burial and plot allowance.  For service-connected deaths the VA will pay up to $2,000 toward burial expenses for deaths on or after September 11, 2001, or up to $1,500 for deaths prior to September 11, 2001. If the Veteran is buried in a VA national cemetery, some or all of the cost of transporting the deceased may be reimbursed.  For non-service-connected deaths the VA will pay up to $978 toward burial and funeral expenses for deaths on or after October 1, 2024 and a $978 plot-interment allowance (if not buried in a national cemetery).

Direct Hiring
Disabled Veterans can get hired through the non-competitive process for federal jobs.  Government agencies have Direct hire authority to do this. 

Dependent Benefits
Spouse or dependent child of a Veteran or service member, may qualify for certain benefits, including health care, life insurance, money for school, burial cost and survivor compensation.

State Benefits
States provides benefits to disabled benefits that include education, property tax exemptions, exemption from vehicle registration and licensing fees, handicap plates, exemption from tool fees, etc.