No matter how many 10% (or even 40%) disabilities you have, you still do not get to 100%.Īs you know from the VA Benefits table, there is a huge jump in benefits from 90% to 100%.īut, just because your ratings do not add up to 100% on the Combined Ratings Table does not mean that you cannot receive 100% VA Disability. Add that to our 90%, you get 91%, which rounds down to 90%. We take our last percentage, in this case 10% and multiply it times the remainder, which is also 10%, which leaves us with 1%. Here is where it gets really frustrating. VA ratings work in 10% increments, so we round up to 90%. I like to call this “rating what’s left.” We add the 15% to our 70% for PTSD, which gets us 85%. It loos like this: 30% (remainder) x 50% (rating) = 15%. Then we take the second largest rating, and multiply that times the remainder. In this case, 70% PTSD leaves us with 30% when subtracted from 100%. Then, we subtract the largest rating from 100%. So, for the Veteran above, the ratings would be ordered 70%, then 50%, then 10%. First, the ratings are ordered by severity. The VA uses something called a Combined Ratings Table. Us: You’re doing regular math, not VA Math! Why am I not rated at 100%? The numbers add up! Veteran: I have a 50% rating on my lumbar spine, a 70% rating for PTSD, and 10% rating for hearing loss/PTSD.
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