A 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disabil...
Institute Of Medicine / Board on Military and Veterans Health / Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veter
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 ...