Veterans disability
Discover the Latest 2023 Veterans Disability Compensation Rates: Utilize our Compensation Benefits Rate Tables to Determine Your Monthly Payment. Your Monthly Payment is Determined by Your Disability Rating and Information about Your Dependents.
Compensation rates for Veterans with a 10% to 20% disability rating
Effective December 1, 2022
Note: No Increase in Compensation Rates for Veterans with 10% to 20% Disability Rating, Even if you have a dependent spouse, child, or parent.
Compensation rates for Veterans with a 30% to 100% disability rating
Effective December 1, 2022
With a dependent spouse or parent, but no children
Compensation Rates for 30% to 60% Disability Rating
Determine Your Compensation: Identify Your Dependent Status in the Left Column and Your Disability Rating in the Top Row. Your Basic Monthly Rate is Located at the Intersection of Your Dependent Status and Disability Rating.
Consider Additional Benefits: If Your Spouse Receives Aid and Attendance Benefits, Refer to the Added Amounts Table and Add it to Your Basic Monthly Rate from the Basic Monthly Rates Table.
Basic monthly rates for 30% to 60% disability rating
Compensation Rates for 70% to 100% Disability Rating
Determine Your Compensation: Locate Your Dependent Status in the Left Column, Your Disability Rating in the Top Row, and Identify Your Basic Monthly Rate at the Intersection of Your Dependent Status and Disability Rating.
If your spouse receives Aid and Attendance benefits, be sure to also look at the Added amounts table, and add it to your amount from the Basic monthly rates table.
Basic monthly rates for 70% to 100% disability rating
Added amounts for 70% to 100% disability rating
With dependents, including children
Compensation Rates for 30% to 60% Disability Rating
Determine Your Compensation: Locate Your Dependent Status in the Left Column, Identify Your Disability Rating in the Top Row, and Find Your Basic Monthly Rate at the Intersection of Your Dependent Status and Disability Rating.
Consider Additional Benefits: If You Have Multiple Children or Your Spouse Receives Aid and Attendance Benefits, Remember to Refer to the Added Amounts Table and Add the Appropriate Amounts to Your Basic Monthly Rate from the Basic Monthly Rates Table.
Basic monthly rates for 30% to 60% disability rating
Added amounts for 30% to 60% disability rating
Compensation Rates for 70% to 100% Disability Rating
Please identify your dependent status in the left column that most accurately reflects your situation. Then locate your disability rating in the top row. The intersection of your dependent status and disability rating will indicate your basic monthly rate.
Please refer to the Added amounts table if you have multiple children or if your spouse receives Aid and Attendance benefits. Add the corresponding amounts from the Added amounts table to the amount obtained from the Basic monthly rates table.
Added amounts for 70% to 100% disability rating
Note: We are legally obligated to align the percentage of cost-of-living adjustments with those applied to Social Security benefits. These adjustments are designed to safeguard the purchasing power of your benefits and ensure they keep pace with inflation.
How to use the tables to find your monthly payment
Find your basic rate
To determine your basic monthly rate, refer to the compensation rates corresponding to your disability rating. Locate your disability rating and dependent status on the Basic monthly rates table, and the corresponding amount listed is your basic monthly rate.
Example (Veteran with no children):
In case you are a Veteran with a 30% disability rating, and you have a spouse as a dependent (with no dependent parents or children), your basic monthly rate would be $568.05 per month.
Find your added amounts, if any apply
If your spouse is eligible to receive Aid and Attendance benefits, or if you have more than one child, you may be eligible for additional monthly payment amounts as indicated in the Added amounts table.
First, determine your basic rate.
Example (Veteran with children):
If you are a Veteran with a 70% disability rating, and you have a spouse, as well as 3 dependent children under the age of 18, you would begin with the basic rate of $1,907.06, which is the amount for a Veteran with a spouse and 1 child.
Next, look at the Added amounts table. Find the amount for children under age 18 ($70.00).
Since your basic rate already provides payment for 1 child, you would add the rate of $70.00 for each additional child (so $70 x 2).
If your spouse is eligible to receive Aid and Attendance benefits, you would also need to add $130 to the basic rate. This amount represents the added amount for a spouse receiving Aid and Attendance, for a Veteran with a 70% disability rating.
In the given example of a Veteran with a 70% disability rating, your total monthly payment amount would be:
- $1,907.06 basic rate (1 spouse, 1 child)
- + $70 (second child under 18)
- +$70 (third child under 18)
- +$130 (spouse who receives Aid and Attendance)
- Total $2,177.06