I’ve had friends, family, clients that have needed to file for disability, and for the right reasons. They’re very sick or whatever it may be, and they really did not realize that they had to have worked five out of the past 10 years. They thought maybe because they had worked 20 years, and they had stopped, that they would still be eligible, and that is not the case. So it is really important to realize that you have to have worked five out of the most recent past 10 years to be eligible.
VA OIG Found VA Over Paid Thousands of Veterans for Inadequately Making Them Permanent and Total
Permanent and Total decisions state the evidence must allow VA to be “reasonably certain” that a total disability is likely to continue throughout a life.