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Originally posted by DaveBarker:
Even though you may not have qualified for CRSC in the past, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2003 expanded CRSC eligibility to retired military personnel who have a combat-related Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability rating between 10% and 50% effective January 1, 2004. Your branch of service will determine which disabilities (if any) qualify as combat-related.

With the inception of the CRSC program on June 1, 2003, the following eligibility requirements were established:

Retirees had to apply to their respective branch of service to be approved for CRSC.
Retirees had to be in receipt of VA compensation.
Retirees had to be in receipt of military retired pay or be in a suspended pay status due to receipt of VA compensation.
Retirees had to have an approved combat-related VA disability rating of 60% or greater. Retirees having an approved combat-related disability associated with a Purple Heart had to have a rating of 10% or greater.
Retirees had to have 20 years of active service or, for reservists, 7,200 reserve points in order to be eligible.
Effective January 1, 2004, CRSC eligibility was extended to retirees with combat-related VA disability ratings between 10% and 50%. Additionally, reservists needed only 20 years of qualifying service (supported by documentation from the applicable branch of service such as a 20-year letter, retirement orders or a statement of service) in order to be eligible. The other eligibility requirements remained unchanged.

Please note that qualified reservists will not receive CRSC until they begin to receive retired pay at age 60.

Temporary Early Retirement Authorization (TERA) retirees are not eligible to receive CRSC unless they have returned to active duty and accumulated enough service time to meet the 20-year requirement before retiring for the second time.

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was approved CRSC

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my question since i'm already at 50% disabilty for my hearing loss, will my % be raised from 50%, just wondering since i can't get nothing from my v.a. as answers

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Originally posted by DaveBarker:

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my question since i'm already at 50% disabilty for my hearing loss, will my % be raised from 50%, just wondering since i can't get nothing from my v.a. as answers

Using VA math, you may be bumped to 60%. However since I am not in the office, but off on a weekend, the chart is not accessable. When a vet is rated 50% that leaves 50% left for other conditions to be rated on, so 10% of the remainder would be 5%. If VA rounds up the 5% to 10% you will be increased.
The important issue is you are SC for diabetes and peripheral neuropathy. So monitor those issues diligently and as they increase in severity ask for an increase in compensation. Each time you go to the doctor and the nurse and doctor ask how are you? Unless you have no reason to be at a doctors office, do not say OK or fine. Answer by saying "my hands and feet are numb, tingling and hurt."