VA Unemployability benefit is a veteran affairs program that provides benefits such as income, schooling, and medical support for the veterans their spouse, and dependent children. These benefits are provided to those veterans who are disabled and their disability is related to their service as veterans. Additionally, the parents of a veteran may also enjoy these benefits
VA Unemployability Benefits for Dependents
Monthly VA Dependent BenefitThe benefits are given to the veterans on monthly basis. If the veteran is alive then the VA increases the reimbursement available to veterans with more than a disability rating of at least 30% if they have a wife and/or dependents.
Individual unemployability benefits are reserved only for disabled veterans. Those veterans only those who are unable to perform their duties.
To get the veteran affairs unemployability benefits, the veterans may have to wait for 4 to 7 months. The benefits awarded last for up to 4-7 years. Upon the veteran’s death, the parents, spouse, and offspring may become eligible in their own right for Dependency Indemnity Compensation.
Detailed information for Spouse and Child Dependency Indemnity can easily be found from the veteran affairs department. This information will guide the benefits for veterans and their dependents if any.
The veterans who earn less than the poverty threshold line, are also eligible to get these unemployability benefits. They have to submit their application to the veteran affairs department.
Who is Eligible for Individual Unemployability Benefits?
There is a criterion for disabled veterans to completely enjoy the unemployability benefits. This includes the veterans who have left their jobs due to their service-connected disabilities, however, the veterans that have left their jobs due to their misconduct or any wrong behavior can not enjoy the individual unemployability benefits.
Any veteran with dishonorable discharge is unable to get or keep a considerably gainful occupation. The disabled veteran due to a service-connected disability can qualify for Individual Unemployability reimbursement from VA.
Mental or physical mutilation can qualify a veteran for entity Unemployability benefits. Veterans may qualify for Individual Unemployability on a scheduler or extra scheduler basis.
The scheduler necessities for Individual Unemployability are as follows:
- The veteran who has one service-connected disability with at least a 60 percent disability rating(however, a veteran with 10 percent disability can also get the benefits, only when he is unable to perform his services for the country)
- The veteran has more than one service-connected disability, with one condition rated at least 40 percent, and a combined at least 70 percent.
Education for Spouse and Children of Disabled Veterans
Survivors’ & Dependent’s Educational Assistance is an educational advantage that can provide up to 36 months of permanent or equivalent benefits to the spouse and children of the most 100% service-connected disabled veterans.
The monthly payment is also provided to veterans dependents to assist them with different expenditures of education such as;
- The tuition fee for college-level programs
- The tuition fee for graduate-level programs
- Career counseling
- Education counseling
- Pieces of training that are provided for the position of the job
- Assistance to train new generations about different trade and on-job pieces of training
Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU)
Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability is a benefit that is being offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This benefit allows disabled veterans who are unable to work due to a service-connected disability to receive and enjoy disability compensation equal to a 100 percent rating.
This compensation is not given by looking at disability rating rather it is given to any disabled veteran even if their combined disability rating does not reach a scheduler 100 percent. VA unemployability benefits are not permanent as well. The department affairs may change the benefits depending upon the circumstances.
The monetary benefit provided to the veterans is $12,486 for the veterans under the age of 65and $11,511for the individuals with the age of 65 or older.
Individual Unemployability for Disabled Veterans
There are certain veterans who are 100 percent disabled and due to this reason they can not perform any of their on-duty tasks. Therefore, the disabled veterans unable to obtain and maintain “substantially gainful” employment due to service-connected conditions can qualify for Individual Unemployability benefits.
A “substantially gainful” program offers a job that pays above the poverty threshold level. The poverty threshold level is the minimum level that is subjected to be enough and adequate for the people of the country.
This level is set after viewing the daily life requirements of people. Under some circumstances, veterans may qualify even if they are working a job that pays above this income threshold.
Unemployability education benefits
Other than unemployability benefits, education benefits are also provided to the disabled veterans and their dependents including spouses and children. Following are the benefits that are of education given to dependents of veterans:
- College, Business, Technical or Vocational Courses
- High School Diploma
- Independent Study or Distance Learning courses
- Correspondence Courses (Spouses Only)
- Remedial, Deficiency, and revision Training (in some cases)
- The cost of tests for licenses or certifications desirable to get, keep, or advance in a job
There is a certain eligibility criterion for education benefits. The spouse can enjoy these benefits for up to ten years from the date the VA determines that the spouse is eligible for VA Dependent Benefits. Children may enjoy the benefit between if they are of 18 and 26 years old.
Free Medical Care
The veteran affairs department also provides unemployability benefits such as medical care to the dependents of disabled veterans. There is a program whose purpose is to properly check and provide medical assistance to the deservings. That organization is CHAMPVA. It provides medical care for the wife and dependent children of service-connected disabled veterans.
Overall the CHAMPVA program covers most health care military and supplies that are medically and expressively necessary. A child’s eligibility ends at the age of 18, except he or she is still a student at an institution, where eligibility ends at age 23.
Spouse eligibility ends with divorce or remarriage after the death of the veteran and previous to the age of 55. However, eligibility can be reinstated upon termination of remarriage.