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Managing Your Ratings Over the Long Term sets up a yearly practice in twelve steps: review each rating against the schedule, file increases and secondary claims on VA Form 21-526EZ, add dependents, and answer any proposed reduction on time. Education only.
Five, ten and twenty years each protect something different. Explains rating reduction protections, the 30-day hearing and 60-day evidence windows, with a fillable rating inventory.
Why 50, 30 and 20 make 70, not 100. Walks through VA's combined ratings math, the bilateral factor and rounding mistakes, then gives a fillable worksheet to check your own decision letter.
TDIU is a different door, not a rating you climb to. Explains the percentage rules, marginal employment and the Census threshold, then gives a fillable job-by-job work history record.
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