Trying to figure out percentages for a total of 23 conditions, please!

[navywife2010]

Hi all!

Thank you to everyone who always shows support and offers advice in this forum. It is because of you all that others are able to keep their sanity and head in the right direction with their questions.

My husband's NARSUM was signed Feb. 22, 2016 for Ulcerative Colitis and UC-related arthritis as the two conditions that need to rate him as fit/unfit. We are thinking he will not continue service due to UC not being curable. He has not heard back from his PEBLO about a fit/unfit rating. Is there someone we can call at the VA (without restarting his place in the queue) to find out if they have his file?

Here are the conditions he claimed:
Pending Disabilities
Disability Submitted Type Actions
Ulcerative Colitis 01/18/2016 NEW
Inflammatory Arthopathy 01/18/2016 NEW
Right Hand Condition 01/18/2016 NEW
Tinnitus 01/18/2016 NEW
Heart Palpitations 01/18/2016 NEW
Headaches 01/18/2016 NEW
Right Wrist Condition 01/18/2016 NEW
Right Hip Impingement 01/18/2016 NEW
Acne 01/18/2016 NEW
Mood Swings 01/18/2016 NEW
Anxiety 01/18/2016 NEW
Right Ankle Condition 01/18/2016 NEW
Bilateral Flat Feet 01/18/2016 NEW
Right Side Rib Condition 01/18/2016 NEW
Memory Loss 01/18/2016 NEW
Neck Condition 01/18/2016 NEW
Back Condition - Entire Back 01/18/2016 NEW
Skin Condition - Hands And Feet 01/18/2016 NEW
Sleep Apnea With Cpap 01/18/2016 NEW
Tmj 01/18/2016 NEW
Vitamin D Defeincey 01/18/2016 NEW
Anemia 01/18/2016 NEW
Bilateral Eye Pain - Pressure 01/18/2016 NEW

Does anyone have any clue what the DoD and VA disabilities percentage might possibly be? He's had a few flares and anemia with his UC since being diagnosed in Jan. 2015. He also has sleep apnea with a CPAP machine. We are thinking at a minimum he would receive 50% for the sleep apnea.

He will also need hip surgery, according to his docs, to correct his cam impingement.

If y'all need more details, please let me know. We are just trying to get an estimate of what we will need to try and live on while he goes back to school and takes time to recover from surgery (4-6 months).

TIA!

 

[Craig2356]

Wait for the PEB to render a fit/unfit decision, from there his conditions will be sent to VA for disability ratings upon 199 agreed and signed.

Please see the link below and look up his condition to have an idea of what the ratings could be like at the end for your husband.

http://www.militarydisabilitymadeeasy.com/vasrdcodes.html

 

[navywife2010]

Wait for the PEB to render a fit/unfit decision, from there his conditions will be sent to VA for disability ratings upon 199 agreed and signed.

Please see the link below and look up his condition to have an idea of what the ratings could be like at the end for your husband.

http://www.militarydisabilitymadeeasy.com/vasrdcodes.html

We're just impatient...we have a 90% assurance that it will be an unfit rating since it isn't a curable condition. In the meantime, I'll check out the link you sent. Thank you!!

 

[gsfowler]

The only real way to determine his ratings is to look at the file submitted to the VA-DRAS. If you have a copy of his C&P evaluation, I could give you a pretty good idea of what it should be.

During the C&P evaluations the provider fills out a disability benefits questionnaire (DBQ). The DBQ makes it pretty easy to figure out the ratings, because the wording on it matches up with the VASRD almost perfectly.

Here is the VASRD http://www.benefits.va.gov/warms/bookc.asp#i