Do i have to contact the VA after being placed on PDRL? Not sure if the army will bump my rating, but if they do. Does the VA get notified of this? I know during my first eval I was retained on TDRL and the army raised my rating. Later i got a letter saying the VA raised my rating from 50 to 70 without me applying for a raiting increase or informing the VA anything. Will the same thing happened with this new re-eval being a TDRL to PDRL?
From an U.S. Army perspective via my own TDRL to PDRL experiences, it's not a requirement to inform the DoVA of a final placement onto the DoD military PDRL. In a round about way, the DoVA may be notified of a PDRL placement as pending upon your individual military financial situation as a military medical retiree. Meaning, if you are also eligible for DFAS CRDP then DFAS and DoVA shall work together in the computation of any authorized military disabled retired pay and VA disability compensation pay to be received simultaneously as applicable by federal law.
Hmm, who actually performed your first TDRL medical re-examination for use during the first TDRL re-evaluation process? Was it performed by the DoVA VBA solely and the USAPDA TDRL Branch accepted its results and forwarded it to the DoD LDES PEB for adjudication? Was it performed by an Army MTF provider? Or, was it performed by a civilian medical provider contracted by the U.S. Army? Depending upon how your DoD TDRL PEB-referred "unfit for duty" medical condition was originally evaluated by the DoVA D-RAS when in the DoD IDES process, there are DoVA re-examination processing requirements needed to be completed within a time-specific duration as annotated in 38 CFR VASRD.
As such, being retained on the DoD TDRL doesn't result in any increase in your original DoD disability rating which was issued upon placement onto the TDRL. The original DoD disability rating upon placement onto the TDRL shall remain the same until a final disposition is determined at the end of the TDRL tenure or earlier if applicable. That said, I am a little confused with your statement about "I was retained on TDRL and the army raised my rating." Please elaborate some more so that I can try to continue to provide additional sound insightful feedback; thanks.
Moreover, the DoVA Rating Agency needs updated medical evidence and/or medical documentation (e.g., usually via a DoVA DBQ) in order to recommend/approve an increase or decrease in a DoVA disability rating. Naturally, the DoD TDRL re-evaluation is a military specific disability process to determine if the PEB-referred "unfit for duty" medical condition(s) which were previously determined to be "permanent and unstable" when placed on TDRL are eventually to be considered "permanent and stable" for DoD rating purposes only.
To any extent, the bottom line is that you are dealing with two different organizations (e.g., DoD & DoVA) that implement entirely separate disability evaluation processes for medical conditions. Take care!
Thus, I quite often comment that "possessing well-informed knowledge is truly a powerful equalizer!"
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