The A - Z Guide: Veterans VA Disability Benefits
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Zero % Evaluations
The Department of Veterans Affairs may award compensation for conditions (injuries or illnesses) that are proven to be service connected.
To be awarded monetary compensation requires that the condition be disabling to a measurable degree.
In other words, just because you have a condition does not also mean that you have a disabling condition.
Service connection is often awarded at a rating of 0% compensable to recognize that such a condition exists and that the condition is service connected but that of itself, it is not disabling.
The conditions rated at 0% may be upgraded upon evidence that the condition has worsened and there may also be a setting that would allow a 0% condition to be used to make eligible a secondary condition that is caused or aggravated by the 0% condition.
TITLE 38, PART 4_SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES
Sec. 4.31 Zero percent evaluations.
In every instance where the schedule does not provide a zero percent evaluation for a diagnostic code, a zero percent evaluation shall be assigned when the requirements for a compensable evaluation are not met.
The Department of Veterans Affairs may award compensation for conditions (injuries or illnesses) that are proven to be service connected.
To be awarded monetary compensation requires that the condition be disabling to a measurable degree.
In other words, just because you have a condition does not also mean that you have a disabling condition.
Service connection is often awarded at a rating of 0% compensable to recognize that such a condition exists and that the condition is service connected but that of itself, it is not disabling.
The conditions rated at 0% may be upgraded upon evidence that the condition has worsened and there may also be a setting that would allow a 0% condition to be used to make eligible a secondary condition that is caused or aggravated by the 0% condition.
TITLE 38, PART 4_SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES
Sec. 4.31 Zero percent evaluations.
In every instance where the schedule does not provide a zero percent evaluation for a diagnostic code, a zero percent evaluation shall be assigned when the requirements for a compensable evaluation are not met.
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