Disability Benefits
20% 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 20% rating.

Monthly Compensation
Those rated at 20% 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).