FOLKS!!! This has been covered many dozens, if not hundreds of times.
I have been in this process for a while and I wanted to know if I was already 100% with the VA for my back then went through my med board and they gave me a 30% rating with them. What does this mean? Will I be able to get retirement pay and my pay from the VA?
Default rule is that you can only get disability payments from one source (DoD or VA). Exceptions to this rule are when you qualify for CRDP or CRSC.
I keep getting different responses about this. My peblo said I would receive retirement pay as well as my Va compensation because I'm 100% with VA. My 30% is my retirement. No I don't have 20 years of service and she knew that as well when answering my question.
Search the forums or look up on google CRDP and CRSC. Again, this has been covered many times here. Can't guess or comment on what the PEBLO said.
Your PEBLO is wrong. You cannot collect two disabilities from the government at the same time. Your DoD medical retirement will be offset by your VA C&P award. The only way to restore the offset is if you qualify for CRSC.
I am thinking that this response was given understanding the earlier statement that the poster does not have 20 years of service. But, the answer is, as stated above, there are two ways to "double dip"- CRDP or CRSC.
There's no way you'll be able to get both unless you have 20+ years in and you'll have to have the rated condition fall under CRSC/CRDP. If you don't fit the criteria, you'll only receive 1 retirement pay. If you do fit the criteria, your VA rating will be lowered, or offset, to meet 100% and you'll pull a fraction of benefits from both DOD service and VA.
CRSC and CRDP work to compensate, in part or whole, any offset. The wording of this above post is confusing.
However, your service will consider you to be retired if the boarded condition was rated above 30%. If the condition alone is not rated above 30%, then you know that you'll be separated without retirement pay BY YOUR SERVICE and they will give you severance......which you'll have to pay back by getting lowered VA pay.
The criteria for retirement from DoD is having a rating of at least 30%. You don't have to have more or above a 30% rating.
Whether you have to "pay back" severance pay from VA payments depends on whether the VA is rating the same conditions and/or whether your condition was incurred in a designated combat zone.
Assuming you'll be getting above 30% [or more] by your service for the boarded condition, the service will separate [retire] you, you'll sign a waiver to pull retirement compensation from the VA, you'll be considered retired and pull 100% from the VA [if that is what you are rated at by the VA]..
Struck out what was not right and italicized my insertions.
Again, if you reach 30% from DoD/military, you will be retired.