Howdy vets

My turn...&nbsp; I'm a disabled vet myself [Navy], with a current service-related disability rating&nbsp;of 60% for epilepsy and an additional 40% for unemployability. I searched the Internet and found a website with the very detailed information I'm sure you would&nbsp;definitely want&nbsp;to know about. It's at <a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/julqtr/38cfr4.124a.htm">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/julqtr/38cfr4.124a.htm</a>&nbsp;"The Epilepsies" is&nbsp;near&nbsp;the bottom of that website. And just&nbsp;to give you a heads-up,&nbsp;if you apply for a higher disability rating and the&nbsp;higher rating&nbsp;is approved, your VA comp does not start at the moment of&nbsp;when it was&nbsp;approved; it is going to&nbsp;go way back&nbsp;to when you applied for the higher disability rating. So for however long you had to wait for the approval, the amount of back-pay you'll be receiving&nbsp;is going to be that increased percentage multiplied by the number of months you had to wait for the approval. For example, let's say a&nbsp;military veteran was discharged at an E-5 pay grade and was approved for the service-related disability of 40%. That 40% VA compensation&nbsp;is going to be at the E-5 pay grade. Later on the Disabled American Veteran (DAV) applied to have their disability rating increased and it took 18 months for an approval to be bumped up to 80% at the E-5 pay grade. During the time frame of waiting for the approved increase the DAV has already received their 18 months worth of 40%, at the E-5 pay grade. What the DAV will be receiving next is going to be a single check, in the newly approved amount for the 80% service-related disability, at the E-5 pay grade…PLUS, an additional check, in the amount for the upper 40% they missed if they had already been at the 80%, for the E-5 pay grade…times…the 18 months they had to wait for that increased rating approval.