Former servicemembers who disagree with the disability ratings they received when they were discharged as unfit for military duty can now apply to have those ratings reviewed by a new Physical Disability Board of Review.
The Defense Department created the new board to reassess the accuracy and fairness of disability ratings assigned to discharged troops. Several task forces and studies cited inconsistencies in the way the military departments assigned disability ratings for similar conditions. The Army tended to assign the lowest ratings, according to the studies.
Read the article on Military.com.
New Board to Ensure Consistency in Disability Ratings
Week of July 07, 2008
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