Disability Benefits
60-90% 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 60-90% rating.
Monthly Compensation
Those rated at 60-90% will start receiving monthly compensation. Monthly compensation rates are 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90%. This will be a separate check. It is tax deductible.
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).
Dental
Get free Dental care.
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.
Concurrent Pay
Concurrent receipt of military retired pay and VA benefits.
Individual Unemployability
If you can’t work because of a disability related to your service in the military, you may qualify for Individual Unemployability. This means you may be able to get disability compensation or benefits at the same level as a Veteran who has a 100% disability rating. You must be unemployable due to service-connected disabilities.
Special Restorative Training (SRT)
Special restorative training is special training for a child, spouse, or surviving spouse for the purpose of lessening the effects of a physical or mental disability. They are paid a minimum of $1,200 per month during the training. To apply for the program contact (888)442-4551.
CHAMPVA
CHAMPVA–Civilian Health and Medical Program. This is healthcare for your spouse, dependents or survivors. (unemployability must be considered permanent).
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.