Any prior Military anons know how best to profit from the VA? I hear claiming Tinnitus is an immediate %10 of your pay the rest of your life
Any prior Military anons know how best to profit from the VA?
Any prior Military anons know how best to profit from the VA? I hear claiming Tinnitus is an immediate %10 of your pay the rest of your life
Important question: are you white?
Of course
Good. Shoot for whatever the correct percentage still allows you to work a regular job.
Things to mention:
>tinnitus, 3m foam earplugs
>chronic back pain
>chronic knee pain
SOP is to perform a range of motion test for these two. Lightly sandbag and wince at max.
>chronic brain fog and seeing stars sometimes when you stand up too quickly
This is CTE. Don't oversell it because you don't want a Traumatic Brain Injury diagnosis. Just claim you hit your head a number of times getting in and out of vehicles, and that you felt fuzzy after grenade and artillery practice.
Remember to under sell all this shit.
I took medicine for a postnasal drip while in but not sure if that would get me anything. Back pain would be my only other idea but I didn't ever go to sick call for it. I did a shit load of ruck marches my last year(one was 100 miles) and air assault so I could point to that maybe
If you rucked at all and fail the range of motion test your back and knee pain will get approved.
Ok will look into then. Yeah I did a 100 mile ruck 3 times and that was rucking Tuesdays and Thursdays for months leading up to it
The day prior to going in for your physical, go out and run 10 miles. Don't drink any water.
You want to go in there actually hurting.
Thanks for the advice guys
getting things documented would've helped but very often just going to sick call doesn't get written down anywhere so it's not an end all be all requirement, you can submit written statements from dudes you worked with/for. peripheral neuropathy can go through from literally just the range of motion exam mentioned earlier. anxiety/depression claims will get you referred to a psychiatrist for confirmation and so will just about any issue involving any component of your head
As far as documentation: If you can get someone to write you a statement saying that they witnessed X event happen to you, then they can tie a service-connected injury to a current condition.
Ok I can definitely get people to confirm how much I was hurting. You're sore as hell after multi day rucks
Stay away from "sore." Sore doesn't matter. You want "injured," not "hurt."
Yeah I'll def use verbage that points more towards me being broken
You're already helping all of us with your taxes brother, keep up the good work
Die in a fire, polc**t
saar you bloody benchod bastard modarchod
You should marry the first girl you meet after basic training then buy a car for 40% apr. After that you want to immediately get divorced by your wife and wreck your car in a drunk driving accident.
Im already out
Tinnitus is very easy to disprove. If you're a maintainer or anything that's not a desk job say you hurt your back.
You seem unfamiliar with the VA
>I hear claiming Tinnitus is an immediate %10 of your pay the rest of your life
That's not how it works. Disability compensation is on a separate scale from what your pay rate was. Just do a search for it.
But you want to look past just the money and see what the ancillary benefits are for each % rating.
For example: at 70% (or near it, not exactly sure), you get free health insurance through the VA (sort of, it's a bit convoluted).
At like 50%, you have access to military bases. So free gym and tax-free shopping.
You real value is going to come from these benefits (especially at the 10% range).
Yeah vocational rehab would nice too
anyone with a service connected disability has full MWR privileges, not 50%. the Tricare coverage comes from members that were medically retired, not 70%
you can still work at any rating, even "100% without ability to work". they aren't going to take your benefits away unless you haven't gotten on the PDL and are somehow cured of your injuries
I'm not talking about tricare. You can get all healthcare through the VA at some rating. Even things that aren't service-related.
They will also reimburse for emergency care (the caveat to that being: Congress has to actually fund it for the year, so you could get rugged).
you're definitely mistaken but I don't care enough to argue about it
Deal.
Just look up Veteran's Advocacy groups in your area. They'll walk you through everything and get everything rolling for you.
Make sure to book your appointment for the fourth of july, then cancel at the last minute and say that your fear of fireworks is preventing you from leaving your home. They will know at the point that you suffer from PTSD
have you done the initial appointment with the VA yet? It's much easier to get rating since they got federally shit on in 2020 but you're probably not getting tinnitus/hearing claimed unless you complained about it to medical and/or have trending hearing loss. think about all your ot injuries, anxiety from being degraded for no reason, back and knee pain from the nonskid steel stairwells destroying you. it's not that hard just tell them all the shit things that happened and how shit your body is now
I have actual tinnitus, the VA doesn't care
Fricking zogbot
only 35% apr
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If you're the anon that was asking about GI Bill and flight school yesterday, a couple of things:
Go to a degree producing school too get your certification. If you JUST learn to be a pilot, they will treat it like a trade school. Essentially, you get less money to play with.
You can go somewhere Like Spartan Aviation, which will knock out commercial pilot license in something like 17 months, and you'll get an associates degree.
But you'll still need to come up with about $45k out-of-pocket because the VA won't cover all of your flight hours.
And there is some benefit to beginning your training in feb-may of the year (something to do with yearly benefit schedules). Check those dates with the school's financial rep, though. I'm not entirely sure the months are accurate, but they will know.
VERY IMPORTANT: When making your VA claim, be very careful about claiming vertigo, ptsd, anxiety, or depression. The FAA WILL access your disability records.
And voc rehab can cover a lot (if not all) of that 45k I mentioned.
There are YouTubers that specifically cater to the topic of GI Bill and flight school.
I already make 130k with my security clearance so not gonna use the GI bill right now
Why should I help a zogbot welfare queen?
>The government deserves my money more than me
kek
I actually have tinnitus and would pay my entire net worth for a cure
Sorry anon
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