A 21st Century System For Evaluating Veterans For Disability Benefits

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Military and Veterans Health,Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309106313

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A 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits by Institute of Medicine,Board on Military and Veterans Health,Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation Pdf

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a veteran to ancillary services, such as vocational rehabilitation and employment services, the rating schedule is out of date medically and contains ambiguous criteria and obsolete conditions and language.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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Disability Evaluation
ISBN : UOM:39015090405203

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Review of Veterans' Disability Compensation Benefits in the 21st Century by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754073532156

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Hearing on Review of Veterans' Disability Compensation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437943467

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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 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437928563

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Veterans’ Disability Benefits: Further Evaluation of Ongoing Initiatives Could Help Identify Effective Approaches for Improving Claims Processing by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States Senate,Committee On Veterans (senate),United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1691760404

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Review of Veterans' Disability Compensation Benefits in the 21st Century by United States Senate,Committee On Veterans (senate),United States. Congress Pdf

Review of veterans' disability compensation benefits in the 21st century: hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 17, 2009.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Review of the Department of Veterans Affairs Examinations for Traumatic Brain Injury
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309486866

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Evaluation of the Disability Determination Process for Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Review of the Department of Veterans Affairs Examinations for Traumatic Brain Injury Pdf

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.

Author : Stephanie Rennane,Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Heather Krull,Douglas C. Ligor,Michael Dworsky,Jonas Kempf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1977408001

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U.S. Department of Defense Disability Compensation Under a Fitness-For-Duty Evaluation Approach by Stephanie Rennane,Beth J. Asch,Michael G. Mattock,Heather Krull,Douglas C. Ligor,Michael Dworsky,Jonas Kempf Pdf

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.

Author : United States Congress,United States Senate,Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1978182694

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Review of Veterans' Disability Compensation Benefits in the 21st Century by United States Congress,United States Senate,Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Review of veterans' disability compensation benefits in the 21st century: hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 17, 2009.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437985726

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Military and Veterans Disability System: Worldwide Deployment of Integrated System Warrants Careful Monitoring by Anonim Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Military and Veterans Health,Committee on Evaluation of the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309164399

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Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans by Institute of Medicine,Board on Military and Veterans Health,Committee on Evaluation of the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans Pdf

The United States has long recognized and honored the service and sacrifices of its military and veterans. Veterans who have been injured by their service (whether their injury appears during service or afterwards) are owed appropriate health care and disability compensation. For some medical conditions that develop after military service, the scientific information needed to connect the health conditions to the circumstances of service may be incomplete. When information is incomplete, Congress or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may need to make a "presumption" of service connection so that a group of veterans can be appropriately compensated. The missing information may be about the specific exposures of the veterans, or there may be incomplete scientific evidence as to whether an exposure during service causes the health condition of concern. For example, when the exposures of military personnel in Vietnam to Agent Orange could not be clearly documented, a presumption was established that all those who set foot on Vietnam soil were exposed to Agent Orange. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee was charged with reviewing and describing how presumptions have been made in the past and, if needed, to make recommendations for an improved scientific framework that could be used in the future for determining if a presumption should be made. The Committee was asked to consider and describe the processes of all participants in the current presumptive disability decision-making process for veterans. The Committee was not asked to offer an opinion about past presumptive decisions or to suggest specific future presumptions. The Committee heard from a range of groups that figure into this decision-making process, including past and present staffers from Congress, the VA, the IOM, veterans service organizations, and individual veterans. The Department of Defense (DoD) briefed the Committee about its current activities and plans to better track the exposures and health conditions of military personnel. The Committee further documented the current process by developing case studies around exposures and health conditions for which presumptions had been made. Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans explains recommendations made by the committee general methods by which scientists, as well as government and other organizations, evaluate scientific evidence in order to determine if a specific exposure causes a health condition.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Board on Military and Veterans Health,Committee on Veterans' Compensation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309105521

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PTSD Compensation and Military Service by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Board on Military and Veterans Health,Committee on Veterans' Compensation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437933055

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Veterans' Disability Benefits by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UCSD:31822037822160

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Review of the VA and DOD Integrated Disability Evaluation System by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : Daniel Bertoni
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437910612

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Military Disability System by Daniel Bertoni Pdf

In Feb. 2007, a series of articles in ¿The Washington Post¿ about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center highlighted problems in the military¿s disability evaluation system (DES). Subsequently, the Dept. of the Army, the DoD, and the VA undertook initiatives to address concerns with the DES. In 2007, the Army took steps to streamline its process, and DoD and VA began piloting a joint evaluation system to address systemic concerns abut timeliness and the potential inefficiency of having separate DES. This report examines: (1) recent actions by the Army to help servicemembers navigate its DES; and (2) the status, plans, and challenges of DoD and VA¿s efforts to pilot and implement a joint DES Includes recommendations. Illustrations.