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VA Hosts Public Forum to Improve Disability Compensation Criteria VA
Seeks Opinion of Veterans and Public and Private Experts WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hosting a public forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., aimed at improving the fairness of payments
for Veterans who are service-connected for genitourinary, digestive, dental, infectious, immune disorder and
nutritional deficiency diseases and injuries.
“We welcome to this public forum key stakeholders, our nation’s Veterans, Veterans
service organizations, public and private health experts, health economists and Department of Defense professionals, who will
provide us with the information we need to bring the disability rating criteria into the 21st century,” said
Acting Under Secretary for Benefits Michael Walcoff.
The focus of the forum is to
assist VA in gathering information to update the Department’s Schedule for Rating Disabilities. The schedule is
used to assign levels of disability compensation for Veterans who are service-connected for these disabilities. The
forum’s agenda includes presentations by VA, DoD and private subject matter experts.
The forum is taking place from
Jan. 25-28 and Jan. 31- Feb. 3 at DoubleTree Paradise Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. The meetings and working sessions
will be held each day from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The public forum is the third
in a series of meetings that will enable VA to make changes to the ratings schedule. It is part of a systematic update
of all 15 body systems of the rating schedule, to be completed by 2016. The two previous forums held in 2010 focused
on mental health and musculoskeletal disorders.
VA provides compensation and
pension benefits to more than 4 million Veterans and other beneficiaries through a VA nationwide network of 57 regional offices.
Currently, the basic monthly rate of compensation paid to Veterans ranges from $123 to $2,673.
Disability compensation is a
non-taxable, monthly monetary benefit paid to Veterans who are disabled as a result of an injury or illness that was incurred
or aggravated during active military service.
After finding that a Veteran’s
disability is service-connected, the rating schedule is applied to determine the level of disability, which ranges from zero
to 100 percent. The Veteran then receives compensation payments based on the disability level assigned.
Veterans and other people seeking information about, or assistance with, VA compensation or pension benefits may call VA’s toll-free number 1-800-827-1000. # # # |
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