hello and welcome to cck live under five my name is brandon piva and i'm an accredited claims agent
here at chisholm chisholm and kilpatrick in this video today we're going to explain some
ways to increase your va rating from 60 to 100 percent so let's first talk about what
the difference between being a combined at 60 as opposed to being a combined at 100
for va purposes when a veteran applies for and is approved for service connected disability benefits
va assigns a disability rating based on the severity of the veteran's condition or conditions
these ratings typically range from zero to a hundred percent in increments of ten percent
ultimately the higher the disability rating you have directly correlates to the more compensation
that you get every month now for 2022 a single veteran with no dependents would receive one
thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars and three cents a month for a sixty percent
combined rating now for a veteran who has a 100 combined rating those veterans for 2022 receive 3
332 and 6 cents a month so now that we've kind of laid the groundwork kind of explain what the
difference between a 60 combined rating and a 100 combined rating let's talk about some different
ways that we can increase or you can increase your disability rating from 60 to 100 one way is you
can file an appeal for an increased rating so if you think you have a disability rating that va has
assigned and you think that that disability rating is lower than what you believe the disability
should be or you believe that the effective date that va assigned is incorrect you can go ahead
and file an appeal in response to va's decision as long as you are within the one-year window
of that notification letter so typically if you're within 365 days of the day that va has
notified you of that decision you typically have one year to appeal that decision now say you fall
outside of that one year window another way you can apply for an increased rating is by filing
a new claim for an increased rating typically to file a claim for the increased rating you would be
outside that one year window like i had stated but when you file the claim for an increased rating
at least in ama what you need to do is provide the department of veterans affairs with new and
relevant evidence basically you need to provide the department of veterans affairs along with
your claim you need to provide evidence that your condition has actually worked now another way that
you can raise your combined rating from 60 to 100 percent is by applying for what we call tdiu tdiu
is an acronym that stands for total disability based on individual unemployability now with tdiu
this allows veterans to be paid at the 100 level if they cannot maintain substantially gainful
employment due to their condition keep in mind though that if you're applying for tdiu there
are certain criteria that you have to meet in order to be considered for scheduler requirements
as opposed to extra scheduler requirements and as always if you want more information about tdiu
please feel free to take a look at our cck blog we have tons of more information pertaining to tdiu
and those benefits on our website lastly another way that you might be able to raise your combined
rating from 60 to 100 is by filing a claim for what we call secondary service connection if you
have a service connected condition that has caused or aggravated another disability that you have
you may be eligible for service connection for that secondary disability let me talk about
an example to kind of make it a little bit easier to digest if you're a veteran who has a service
connected back injury and that back injury affects your gait meaning it affects the way
that you walk the way that you walk and altering your gate could potentially cause knee problems
and then at that point if you do have knee problems caused by the back you may be able
to file for secondary surface connection for your now knee condition because what you're
saying there is your knee condition is directly related to your back condition because if not for
your back condition you wouldn't have altered gait therefore you wouldn't have the current
knee disability so that's another way that you might be able to raise your rating from 60 to 100
that other new condition could potentially take your combined rating from 60 percent and raise it
all the way up to 100 one thing i do want to say as well you can file for more than one secondary
condition you're not just limited to filing to just the knees if you believe that your knees
are due to your back condition if you have another disability that you believe is secondarily related
to your back condition you can also file for that as well so that's all the time we have for you and
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