Service-Connected Disability Compensation is a monthly payment made to a Veteran who has a disability, disease, or injury that was incurred or aggravated by their military service.  

The Department of Veterans Affairs will grant these monthly payments based upon the degree of disability and pay additional allowances for your dependents if said disabilities are evaluated as 30% or more disabling.  

Furthermore, a special monthly compensation rate may be authorized for Veterans that have a service-connected disability that is incredibly severe and meets certain statutory regulations. 

Service-connection for a disability may be granted based on the following conditions: 

• You must have actively served or been on active or inactive duty for training in the military. 

• If you were on inactive duty, only a disability stemming from a heart attack, stroke, or injury will qualify for compensation. 

• You must have been discharged from the military under any condition other than dishonorable. 

• You must have a qualifying medical condition that impacts your capacity to sustain gainful employment. 

• A specific event during your military service must have caused or contributed to your medical condition, and you must be able to provide proof that this is the cause. 

• The VA has rated your medical condition at least 10% disabling. 

• If the VA has rated your medical condition 0% disabling, you might be eligible for other VA benefits, but will not be able to recover disability compensation. 

• Your medical condition must not be the result of willful misconduct, which is defined by the Department of Veterans Affairs as “an act involving conscious wrongdoing or a known prohibited action.”