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So, we get a lot of questions here in the office about, you know, what exactly is a service connected disability? How do I prove that up for my disability claim? So, in basic terms, a service connected disability is a physical or mental health condition that was caused or worsened by your military service. First of all, it’s a monthly tax-free payment that you receive. Secondly, it can help qualify you for ancillary VA benefits. It can help you get VA health care. It can move you up in priority
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level at the VA um healthcare facilities. It can qualify you for housing, for home loans, education, job placement, or retraining. So, these are very valuable benefits. So, if you’re looking at filing a claim for service connected benefits, you really have to prove up three different things, three different elements for the VA. Number one, you need a current medical diagnosis. And this can’t be a condition that has already resolved. It can’t be something that you think you might develop in the
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future. It needs to be a currently diagnosed condition. The second element that you really need to prove up is that inservice event, injury, or illness that gave rise to that current disability. This just has to be something that happened during your military service. This could be a physical injury in the case of PTSD or a mental health disorder. It could be a um a stressor event. And the third element that you have to show is a link between the first and second elements. A link between your current diagnosis and that inservice
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injury or illness. So those are the basic elements for a service connected disability. If you have any further questions or if you think you might have a good claim or you’ve been denied what you think is a good claim, feel free to reach out to our office. We’d be happy to take a look and see if we can
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