VA Disability Calculator

The VA disability calculator computes the Veteran Affairs compensation rates for:

• Soldiers who got sick or injured during active military services;
• Veterans whose existing conditions of health worsened during the service; and
• Veterans with mental health deterioration that developed before, during, or after service (including post-traumatic stress disorder – PTSD).

Our tool calculates your VA disability rates and serves as the detailed VA benefits calculator, presenting the exact amount of money you can get with your VA claim. 💵

[Includes the 2021 update]

Our VA claim calculator allows you to find out the amount of money that the US Department of Veterans Affairs owns you due to the losses or damages suffered during active service in the military; the VA disability compensation is only one of many granting schemes for Veterans:

• Housing grants;
• VA nursing homes, assisted living, and home healthcare;
• Fiduciary services;
• Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E); and
• Aid and Attendance benefits and Housebound allowance.

We've based the VA rating calculator on official 2021 disability pay charts, presented on the 1st of December 2020, and effective on the very same day.

All of our army-related tools are regularly updated; try it out yourself:

• Navy PRT calculator
• APFT standards calculator
• Army body fat calculator
• Navy body fat calculator

In need of a VA math calculator? You've just found the perfect one! Follow just a few simple steps below to obtain your VA compensation rates.

1. List your rated disabilities

   • Carefully write down all the disability rankings received for all the conditions – enter them in appropriate fields.

   • As you can see, our tool has a functionality of a VA disability calculator for multiple disabilities – you can enter a maximum of 15 conditions.

2. Choose your marital status

   If you're married, let our VA calculator know whether your spouse receives the Aid & Attendance or not.

3. Choose the number of children under 18 years old that are dependent on you

4. Choose the number of children over 18 that attend a qualifying school program

   • You need to fill out the VA Form 21-674, Request for Approval of School Attendance.

   • Discontinuation of this benefit will take place on your child's 23rd birthday.

5. Choose how many of your parents are dependent on you

Your results are here 🎉

Our VA disability rating calculator displays both the cumulative disability and the disability rating.

The VA calculations look differently, depending on the amount of ranked disabilities.

One disability:

This case is straightforward: find the percentage of your disability using the VA disability pay charts presented below.

If your disability equals 30% or more, you should also add additional amounts (in U.S. $):

• For a spouse receiving Aid and Attendance:

• For each additional child under the age of 18:

• For each additional child over age 18 in a qualifying school program:

Two or more disabilities:

Here, the thing gets a little more complicated – we need to calculate the cumulative disability and the disability rating. Our VA compensation calculator uses the following equation:

where:

• $\small \rm{CDIS}$ – Cumulative disability;
• $\small \rm{DIS\%_{greatest}}$ – Greatest disability percentage means your greatest recorded disability, e.g., among disabilities 30%, 60%, 10%, you need to choose 60%; and
• $\small \rm{DIS\%_{2greatest}}$ – 2nd greatest disability percentage – following the example below, you should choose 30%.

💡 You need to use this equation a few times if your number of disabilities is greater than 2. During the 2nd and further rounds of calculations, use the previously calculated cumulative disability as the value of the greatest disability percentage. The modified equation will look as follows:

and so on, where:

• $\small \rm{CDIS_{2}}$ – Cumulative disability (no. 2); and
• $\small \rm{DIS\%_{3greatest}}$ – 3rd Greatest disability percentage means your greatest recorded disability, e.g., among disabilities 30%, 60%, 10%, you need to choose 10%.

Then, we need to calculate the disability rating.

Our VA disability combined rating calculator, as officially advised, rounds the cumulative disability to tens.

For example:

• 44% = 40%;
• 56% = 60%; and
• 24% = 20%.

Your next step would be looking at the VA disability charts ⤵️ and finding your category according to the number of your dependents (children, parents, spouse).

Remember to include additional amounts if you have:

• More than 1 child under 18 years old;
• More than 1 child over 18 years old in a qualifying school program; or
• A spouse receiving Aid & Attendance.

All the VA disability pay charts are taken from the va.gov official website.