The reason for using a VA disability calculator is pretty simple: the calculations used to measure VA disability rates are exceedingly complicated.

Disability compensation is a tax-free payment that the VA dispenses monthly to veterans who were injured or developed illnesses connected to their military service.

VA disability rates in 2024 are $171.23 to $4,433.39 per month. Disability severity and family situation affect the rate. Claims take 104.1 days on average.

“The VA calls this double-dipping,” said 63-year-old former Army sergeant Vernon Reffitt, whose monthly VA disability compensation for a leg injury recently went from $171 per month to zero.

Disabled veterans and military retirees will likely see record pay increases in 2023 thanks to COLA changes.

According to the CBO, the VA paid four times the amount in disability compensation in 2021, $110 billion, than it paid in 2000, adjusting for inflation, even as the number of vets in the U.S. had ...