I was sent something that says VA disability compensation begins 3-6 months after retirement. Does that mean after medically retiring...?

Question

... I wont get paid for 3-6 months? I would ask professionals but its saturday.

Answer 1

VA disability is not tied to retirement.   You can get a VA rating even if you only served a year.  You have to file for a VA disability rating.   The DATE that you do it is the date they will use when they eventually allow a rating.    If you retired with 20 years of service time AND get a VA rating over 40% you should get both payments.    If you medically retired with less than 20 years (Chapter 61)   then you lose retired pay when you get VA payments.    

Answer 2

you know you have to apply for disabilty, its not automatic

if you retired, then you should start getting retirment pay the next month-- unless you retirfed from the giard or rfeserves

Answer 3

Processing time does indeed take that long for VA disability claims. It is backdated

Answer 4

It can take that long to be processed and start being paid. It will be back dated to the date you were eligible for it. That’s actually pretty good for time, I know of some it has take 18-24 months to go through.