What Is The Service Connected Rating For Tbi

Traumatic_Brain_Injury_Word_Cloud When Veterans file for VA disability benefits, they will receive a percentage rating for each service-continued disability. Ratings range from 0% to 100% and are given in x% increments to describe how serious a condition is. There are five possible ratings for a traumatic brain injury (TBI): 0%, 10%, 40%, 70%, and 100%.

How the VA Evaluates a Service-Continued TBI

Ten divide areas that must exist evaluated equally office of a TBI merits:

Impairment of retention, attention, concentration, and executive functions
Altered judgment
Inhibited social skills
Orientation (awareness of date, time, location, and others around them)
Diminished motor activity
Visual-spatial disorientation
Subjective symptoms such as low and anxiety that can't be measured with objective tests
Neurobehavioral furnishings such as irritability, unpredictability, verbal assailment, and lack of cooperation
Impaired ability to communicate verbally or in writing
Consciousness (whether or not the Veteran is in a coma or vegetative state)

The Veteran Affairs Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD) allows five ratings for each category: 0, ane, 2, iii, and 4. Each rating corresponds to a disability percentage:

0=0%
ane=10%
ii=xl%
3=lxx%
iv=100%

A Veteran is and so assigned a total disability rating based on their highest score in whatsoever of the 10 categories. For example, a Veteran who receives a iv rating in the communication category because they are unable to communicate verbally or in writing volition automatically receive a 100% disability rating. A Veteran whose highest rating is a 3 in the neurobehavioral effects category because they take one or more behaviors that interfere with workplace or social interaction will receive a 70% inability rating for their TBI.

Additional Factors to Consider

Veterans with a service-continued TBI often suffer from secondary conditions that will have their own rating and can potentially increase their full disability rating. Parkinson'south disease, seizures, dementia, depression, and hormone deficiency tin qualify for a presumed service connection nether certain circumstances. Other weather condition may be eligible with appropriate medical prove linking the diagnosis to the Veteran's TBI.

A Veteran with a severe TBI who is unable to wearing apparel, feed, or otherwise intendance for themselves may qualify for SMC (t), a level of Special Monthly Compensation for Veterans with debilitating residuals of a TBI. This rating is granted instead of the 100% disability bounty and pays at a charge per unit that is designed to conform the added expense of an in-home caregiver.

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