The Veterans Administration (VA) provides disability compensation for deserving veterans who have disabilities related to their military service. These conditions include those that developed while serving in the military that were not caused by active duty, and conditions that were caused or exacerbated by military service.
The Veterans Administration recognizes the following list of conditions as having developed in veterans because of their active service in the military. If you have a service-connected condition and having problems Finding and Maintaining Employment you may be eligible for 100% Veterans Disability due to TDIU, and could benefit from an evaluation.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Related to combat service or personal trauma
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Often diagnosed, but generally related to concussion resulting from explosion
Chronic Diseases:
If diagnosed within one year of separation from service
- Anemia, primary
- Arteriosclerosis
- Arthritis
- Atrophy, Progressive Muscular
- Brain Hemorrhage
- Brain Thrombosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Calculi of the kidney, bladder, or gallbladder
- Cardiovascular-renal disease, including hypertension
- Cirrhosis of the liver
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Encephalitis lethargic residuals
- Endocarditis (all forms of valvular heart disease)
- Endocrinopathies
- Epilepsies
- Hansen’s disease
- Hodgkin’s disease
- Leukemia
- Lupus erythematous, systemic
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myelitis
- Myocarditis
- Nephritis
- Other organic diseases of the nervous system
- Osteitis deformans (Paget‟s disease)
- Osteomalacia
- Palsy, bulbar
- Paralysis agitans
- Psychoses
- Purpura idiopathic, hemorrhagic
- Raynaud‟s disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral
- Sclerosis, multiple
- Syringomyelia
- Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger‟s disease)
- Tuberculosis, active
- Tumors, malignant, or of the brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves
- Ulcers, peptic (gastric or duodenal)
Tropical Diseases
If diagnosed within incubation period of illness following service in a tropical region
- Amebiasis
- Blackwater fever
- Cholera
- Dracontiasis
- Filariasis
- Leishmaniasis, including kala-azar
- Loiasis.
- Malaria
- Onchocerciasis
- Oroya fever
- Pinta
- Plague
- Schistosomiasis
- Yaws
- Yellow fever
Diseases Specific to Prisoners of War
If held captive more than 30 days and diagnosed at any time following separation from service
- Psychosis
- Any of the anxiety states
- Dysthymic disorder (depressive neurosis)
- Organic residuals of frostbite
- Post-traumatic osteoarthristis
- Atherosclerotic heart disease
- Hypertensive vascular disease
- Hypertensive heart disease
- Myocardial infarction
- Congestive heart failure
- Arrhythmia
- Stroke
- Osteoporosis
- Avitaminosis
- Beriberi (including beriberi heart disease)
- Chronic dysentery
- Helminthiasis
- Malnutrition
- Pellagra
- Other nutritional deficiency
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Peripheral neuropathy (except if related to infectious causes)
- Cirrhosis of the liver
- Osteoporosis (on or after September 28, 2009)