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§ 1155 — Authority For Schedule For Rating Disabilities

38 U.S.C. § 1155

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The Secretary shall adopt and apply a schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations. The schedule shall be constructed so as to provide ten grades of disability and no more, upon which payments of compensation shall be based, namely, 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent, and total, 100 percent. The Secretary shall from time to time readjust this schedule of ratings in accordance with experience. However, in no event shall such a readjustment in the rating schedule cause a veteran’s disability rating in effect on the effective date of the readjustment to be reduced unless an improvement in the veteran’s disability is shown to have occurred.

38 U.S.C. § 1154 38 U.S.C. § 1156

Implementing Regulations

§ 4.100 Application of the general rating formula for diseases of the heart.
38 C.F.R. § 4.100
§ 4.25 Combined ratings table.
38 C.F.R. § 4.25
§ 4.77 Visual fields.
38 C.F.R. § 4.77
§ 4.130 Schedule of ratings—Mental disorders.
38 C.F.R. § 4.130
§ 4.86 Exceptional patterns of hearing impairment.
38 C.F.R. § 4.86
§ 4.73 Schedule of ratings—muscle injuries.
38 C.F.R. § 4.73
§ 4.125 Diagnosis of mental disorders.
38 C.F.R. § 4.125
§ 4.128 Convalescence ratings following extended hospitalization.
38 C.F.R. § 4.128
§ 4.78 Muscle function.
38 C.F.R. § 4.78
§ 4.17 Total disability ratings for pension based on unemployability and age of the individual.
38 C.F.R. § 4.17
§ 4.71a Schedule of ratings—musculoskeletal system.
38 C.F.R. § 4.71a
§ 4.126 Evaluation of disability from mental disorders.
38 C.F.R. § 4.126
§ 4.79 Schedule of ratings—eye.
38 C.F.R. § 4.79
§ 4.87 Schedule of ratings—ear.
38 C.F.R. § 4.87
§ 4.56 Evaluation of muscle disabilities.
38 C.F.R. § 4.56
§ 4.104 Schedule of ratings—cardiovascular system.
38 C.F.R. § 4.104
§ 4.76 Visual acuity.
38 C.F.R. § 4.76
§ 4.118 Schedule of ratings—skin.
38 C.F.R. § 4.118
§ 4.124a Schedule of ratings—neurological conditions and convulsive disorders.
38 C.F.R. § 4.124a
§ 4.96 Special provisions regarding evaluation of respiratory conditions.
38 C.F.R. § 4.96
§ 4.87a Schedule of ratings—other sense organs.
38 C.F.R. § 4.87a
§ 4.69 Dominant hand.
38 C.F.R. § 4.69
§ 4.127 Intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) and personality disorders.
38 C.F.R. § 4.127
§ 4.76a Computation of average concentric contraction of visual fields.
38 C.F.R. § 4.76a
§ 4.116 Schedule of ratings—gynecological conditions and disorders of the breast.
38 C.F.R. § 4.116
§ 4.129 Mental disorders due to traumatic stress.
38 C.F.R. § 4.129
§ 4.114 Schedule of ratings—digestive system.
38 C.F.R. § 4.114
§ 4.55 Principles of combined ratings for muscle injuries.
38 C.F.R. § 4.55
PART 4—SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES
38 C.F.R. pt. 4