Download or read book Dod Disability written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD Disability: Overview of Compensation Program for Service Members Unfit for Duty
Download or read book DOD DISABILITY Overview of Compensation Program for Service Members Unfit for Duty written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report responds to your request for information about the Department of Defense s (DOD) disability severance program that provides a lump-sum payment for certain service members with a disability. You requested this work as a follow-up to our previous report on disabled veterans interest in lump sum versus monthly disability payments. 1 We agreed to examine (1) how DOD administers its disability severance pay for service members with less severe disabilities and the associated administrative costs and coordination issues and (2) the extent to which the military services provide financial counseling to service members receiving disability severance (lump-sum) payments. As agreed with your office, we interviewed DOD and service-level officials and examined pertinent DOD and service-level documents. We conducted our work from January through April 2001 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. On April 19, 2001, we briefed your office on the results of our work. (See app. I.) We requested oral comments from DOD on a draft of this report. DOD provided technical comments, which we have incorporated as appropriate. In summary, we found that the administration of disability severance, like medical retirement pay, follows service-specific procedures using DOD guidance. The services assess members fitness for duty along a scale ranging from 0 to 100 percent in gradations of 10. Members unfit for duty who have 20 or more years of military service with any disability rating or who are assigned a disability rating of 30 percent or higher receive medical 1 Veterans Benefits: Veterans Have Mixed Views on a Lump Sum Disability Payment Option (GAO-01-172).
Download or read book DOD Disability written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Department of Defense Disability Compensation Under a Fitness For Duty Evaluation Approach written by Stephanie Rennane and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Integrated Disability Evaluation System is the process by which DoD determines fitness for duty and separation or retirement of service members because of disability. Service members who are evaluated for disability undergo a comprehensive medical examination to document all medical conditions and receive a disability rating for every condition documented during the exam. DoD and the VA use these ratings to determine the amount of disability compensation service members receive if they are determined to be unfit to continue serving and consequently medically discharged. Proposals for reforming the DoD compensation system have been considered in the past, but a rigorous evaluation of what those alternatives might look like and how they would affect service member benefits and costs to DoD has not been conducted. In this report, the authors describe their evaluation of four hypothetical alternative disability compensation approaches that would support a simpler disability evaluation process: compensating based on the current objectives of the DoD system (and using current benefit formulas), compensating on the basis of a military career, compensating on the basis of unfitting conditions, or compensating similar to U.S. allies. Each alternative reduces reliance on disability ratings for determining DoD disability compensation and focuses primarily on a single decision about whether a service member is fit to perform his or her duties. The authors evaluate the potential effects of each alternative on service member compensation, processing times, end strength, lost skills and experience, and readiness.
Download or read book Disability Benefits written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military and Veterans Benefits written by Daniel Bertoni and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) program provides monthly payments to the survivors of those who died as a result of a service-connected disability or while on active duty in the military. In fiscal year 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) paid over $4.7 billion to about 354,000 survivors, replacing a portion of income lost with the death of the veteran or servicemember. This repor studies the DIC program and the levels of payments it provides. This report addresses: (1) the extent to which DIC replaces VA disability compensation or active duty military pay lost due to the death of a veteran or servicemember; and (2) how DIC benefits compare to benefits for survivors of civilian federal employees. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Disability Separation written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PTSD Compensation and Military Service written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-08-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scars of war take many forms: the limb lost, the illness brought on by a battlefield exposure, and, for some, the psychological toll of encountering an extremely traumatic event. PTSD Compensation and Military Service presents a thorough assessment of how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs evaluates veterans with possible posttraumatic stress disorder and determines the level of disability support to which they are entitled. The book presents a history of mental health disability compensation of military personnel and reviews the current compensation and pension examination procedure and disability determination methodology. It offers a number of recommendations for changes that would improve the fairness, consistency, and scientific foundation of this vital program. This book will be of interest and importance to policy makers, veterans affairs groups, the armed forces, health care organizations, and veterans themselves.
Download or read book Compensation for Service connected Disabilities a General Analysis of Veterans and Military Disability Benefits Mortality Rates Disability Standards in Federal Programs Workmen s Compensation and Rehabilitation written by President's Commission on Veterans' Pensions (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Military Disability Compensation written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs offer disability compensation to service members who are injured while serving on active military duty. This research analyzes features of the military disability compensation system and compares the system with benefits available to civilian programs designed to help employees injured in the workplace. The study also compares the civilian labor market outcomes of disabled retirees with those of similar other retirees who are not disabled. It should interest those concerned with military disability compensation issues as well as with the implications of those issues for recruiting and retention.
Download or read book Disability Benefits written by Cristina T. Chaplain and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ides Guidebook written by United States Government Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) received presidential direction to conduct a joint program to modernize and improve the disability evaluation and compensation process for wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers. VA and DoD collaborated to develop the Integrated Disability Evaluation System(IDES).The goals of IDES are to:• Reduce the overall time it takes a Soldier to progress through the IDES process, starting at the time of referral to the Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) and ending upon receipt of VA benefits or return to duty (RTD);• Utilize a single examination process that meets the needs of VA and DoD; and• Increase transparency of both the military disability evaluation system and VA claims processes for wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers and their families.The IDES process identifies all medical and/or psychological conditions that impact military occupational function for the purposes of determining fitness for duty and entitlement to military and/ or VA disability compensation. The core IDES process is standardized to ensure that each Soldier, Command, and the Army Staff understand their critical contributions to case processing. Accountability measures based on the minimum necessary standards are in place at all levels across the Army. This guidebook clarifies the processes, roles and responsibilities, and standards measured at each IDES step.The IDES Guidebook is intended solely to provide MTFs and their personnel with a description of IDES practices and procedures. The IDES Guidebook should not be construed or referenced as an authoritative source for IDES regulations or policy. In-text citations refer to authoritative IDES policy and regulations. Readers should always seek out these authoritative sources when necessary and should not, in any case, cite to the IDES Guidebook as Department of the Army policy.
Download or read book Military and Veterans Disability System Preliminary Observations on Evaluation and Planned Expansion DOD VA Pilot Testimony Before the Committee on Veterans Affairs U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends improvements in the medical evaluation and rating of veterans for the benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to compensate for illnesses or injuries incurred in or aggravated by military service. Compensation is a monthly cash benefit based on a rating schedule that determines the degree of disability on a scale of 0 to 100. Although a disability rating may also entitle a veteran to ancillary services, such as vocational rehabilitation and employment services, the rating schedule is out of date medically and contains ambiguous criteria and obsolete conditions and language. The current rating schedule emphasizes impairment and limitations or loss of specific body structures and functions which may not predict disability well. 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends that this schedule could be revised to include modern concepts of disability including work disability, nonwork disability, and quality of life. In addition to the need for an updated rating schedule, this book highlights the need for the Department of Veterans' Affairs to devote additional resources to systematic analysis of how well it is providing services or how much the lives of veterans are being improved, as well as the need for a program of research oriented toward understanding and improving the effectiveness of its benefits programs.
Download or read book Evaluation of the Disability Determination Process for Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides disability compensation to veterans with a service-connected injury, and to receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a veteran must submit a claim or have a claim submitted on his or her behalf. Evaluation of the Disability Determination Process for Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans reviews the process by which the VA assesses impairments resulting from traumatic brain injury for purposes of awarding disability compensation. This report also provides recommendations for legislative or administrative action for improving the adjudication of veterans' claims seeking entitlement to compensation for all impairments arising from a traumatic brain injury.
Download or read book Military Disability System written by Robert E. Robertson (au) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retooling Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation Systems written by Hal D. Baird and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD and VA disability compensation systems fail to adequately compensate veterans' service-connected disabilities. The DoD disability compensation system provides benefits for soldiers prematurely separated due to a service-connected disability, while the VA disability compensation system compensates veterans for the "average impairments of earning capacity" resulting ting from service-connected disabilities. This paper examines appropriateness of disability compensation provided by DoD and the VA measured against the actual losses of disabled veterans. It overviews the history of disability compensation in the United States, focusing principally on disability compensation as it now exists. It then provides analysis of the actual losses borne by disabled veterans, including loss of military career, diminution in quality of life, loss of earnings capacity, and burden of transition. It provides strategic recommendations for restructuring the two disability compensation systems to work as an integrated whole in which DoD would determine fitness to serve and provide a payment to those found not fit for duty to compensate for loss of military career. Thereafter, VA would establish the disability rating and compensate disabled veterans for loss of future earning capacity and diminution in quality of life, while providing transition benefits facilitating transition to civilian life.
