VA Monthly Compensation Estimator

Estimate your monthly VA disability compensation based on your combined rating and dependents.

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Rate table year

VA names each table for the calendar year that includes January–November. The raise itself is effective December 1 of the prior year. Latest published table is 2026 rates (effective December 1, 2025). 2027 / December 1, 2026 rates are not offered until VA.gov publishes them.

Year

Your combined disability rating

Combined rating

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What this calculator doesn't include

Special Monthly Compensation (SMC): Additional payments for severe disabilities like loss of use of limbs, blindness, or need for aid and attendance. SMC rates
Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU): Veterans rated less than 100% but unable to work may receive compensation at the 100% rate. Learn about TDIU
Military retired pay offsets: Some veterans receive both VA compensation and military retirement pay, with potential offsets or concurrent receipt programs (CRDP/CRSC). DFAS CRDP information
State or local benefits: Many states offer additional benefits for disabled veterans

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Official sources

Current Veterans disability compensation rates (2026 table, effective December 1, 2025; fetched November 8, 2026; VA page last updated November 2, 2026)
Past VA.gov veteran-rate tables: 2018 through 2025 (each labeled for the calendar year; raise effective December 1 of the prior year)
VBA Compensation Rate Tables — Effective 12/1/18 (authoritative 2019 amounts: “Veteran with One Parent and Child” 80% $1,831.69 / 90% $2,058.62 / 100% $3,307.91 and “Veteran with Two Parents and Child” 80% $1,940.69 / 90% $2,181.62 / 100% $3,444.70. School-child rates “are not included with any other compensation rates.” VA.gov past-rates-2019 HTML transposed those 80/90/100% child-and-parent cells.)
How to read compensation rate tables
38 CFR § 3.57 — Child
38 U.S.C. § 1115(1)(F) — additional compensation for each child 18 or older in a qualifying course of instruction