How much money will I get?

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groundrush

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I'm curious, if I do get retroactively retired, what amount of money will be backpaid to me.

Here's my situation:
Medically discharged from USAF active duty as an E-5.

I suffered a back injury, and after having a microdiscectomy and then a disc replacement L5-S1 (which was a total failure and left me with chronic pain I have been taking craploads of pain meds for ever since), I was med boarded and discharged in June 2008 at 20% and given severance. Later, the VA rated me at 80% and I've been recieving disability pay accordingly, minus the amount they keep each month to recoup the severance (such BS, but I digress.) So my question is, if the PDBR rules to up my rating and retire me, how will I be paid? I'm sure they will keep out the remainder of the severance pay, but at this point I've paid back the majority of it through my monthly checks, and by the time I expect the ruling (August 2015 will be 15 months) there will be less than 2 years left on the recoupment schedule. But will they keep out anything else? Will the fact that I have been getting VA disability affect it at all?

I'm just trying to at least get a ballpark figure on what to expect money wise, just in case I do get retired.
 
If retired, they are suppose to figure out what you should have been paid had you been retired in the first place. They then offset the severance pay from what what they owe you.

Often, your retirement pay is completely offset by your VA so a disability retirement unless you are eligible for CRSC. The benefit in getting the retirement is TRICARE coverage and other benefits as a military retiree.

What did the VA initially rate the condition deemed unfitting by your PEB?

Mike
 
I don't have access to my documents to make sure because they're a few hundred miles away at the moment, but if I recall, they gave me 0% at first because I wasn't able to keep my appointment for the physical. Once I got the physical completed, I think I got 40% for my back, the other 40% for other conditions (GERD, knee pain, impotence, etc.)

Is there any benefit for retroactive TRICARE? Can you submit out-of-pocket medical expenses incurred during that period that would have been covered otherwise?
 
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