Work Impact & Special Benefits

When service-connected conditions end your career or limit daily living, build a record that looks like it came from a vocational expert. Craft a Solid Statement for TDIU guides you through documenting failed accommodations, missed work, and physician restrictions so VA sees unemployability as a medical fact. Attach that narrative to employer separation letters and performance reviews to show the decline in real time.

Outside agencies often already believe you. Leverage Your SSA Disability File demonstrates how to pull consultative exams, vocational assessments, and residual functional capacity findings from Social Security. Pair those with state workforce denial letters or Department of Labor case notes so VA understands every other program agrees you cannot sustain gainful employment.

Daily life needs equal attention. Ask for SMC in Writing gives you the template for documenting bathing assistance, mobility devices, and home health visits that trigger higher Special Monthly Compensation tiers. Add the visuals from Make Flare-Ups Count and caregiver logs that track how often you need help with meals, medication management, or safety checks.

Keep pushing until every ancillary program activates. Use Request a VA Regional Office Review to escalate when adaptive housing grants, caregiver stipends, or auto allowances fall through the cracks, and cite Lock In VA Favorable Findings so decision makers preserve every concession along the way. With that package, you protect family income while VA catches up to the support you already rely on.