disability rating schedule
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-461-7600
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its Schedule for Rating Disabilities by revising the disability evaluation criterion provided for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to provide an evaluation of 100 percent for any veteran with service-connected ALS. This change is necessary to adequately compensate veterans who suffer from this progressive, untreatable, and fatal disease. This change is intended to provide a total disability rating for any veteran with service-connected ALS.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In an effort to meet the Legislature's stringent requirement for regulations implementing SB 899 by January 1, 2005, the California D...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) today posted the first draft of its perman...
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... and Memoranda, the Occupational Disability Rating Schedule, Adjudication Instruction Manual, ...
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The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will co-host the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD) Forum--Improving VA's Disability Evaluation Criteria for the Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Organs of Special Sense, Gynecological Conditions and Disorders of the Breast, and Skin. The purpose of this VASRD Improvement Forum is to capture public comment and current medical science information from presentations made by subject matter experts. This Forum is scheduled for January 17-26, 2012. VA plans to use this information to update the sections of VASRD that pertain to the following four body systems: (1) Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders (38 CFR 4.120-4.124a), (2) Organs of Sp...
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...The V.A. rating schedule -- the commission concluded that the curr...