By the Numbers: 8 April 2019
41%
The percentage of post-9/11 Veterans who "have disability ratings from the Department of Veterans Affairs," according to a recent article on the website Military.com -- Post-9/11 Vets Have Far Higher Disability Ratings Than Prior Generations: Report.
The article, which discusses the Bureau of Labor Statistics annual report on Veterans' status and employment, says that 25% of Veterans from all other eras have disability ratings.
Among all veterans with a service-connected disability, 29 percent reported a disability rating of less than 30 percent, while another 41 percent had a rating of 60 percent or higher, the BLS said.
For Veterans who served post-9/11, 41 percent, or 1.7 million, reported a service-connected disability in August 2018, and nearly half of those had a service-connected disability of 60 percent or more, BLS said.
Although the report did not discuss why post-9/11 Veterans have a high percentage of disability ratings, the article includes an explanation from Dr. Nicholas Armstrong, a senior researcher at Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families, who indicated that "(a)dvances in battlefield medicine and rapid evacuations to treatment centers have resulted in more veterans surviving wounds that would have killed them in previous wars." Also, he pointed out, there have been advances in the ability to diagnose PTSD.
41%
The percentage of post-9/11 Veterans who "have disability ratings from the Department of Veterans Affairs," according to a recent article on the website Military.com -- Post-9/11 Vets Have Far Higher Disability Ratings Than Prior Generations: Report.
The article, which discusses the Bureau of Labor Statistics annual report on Veterans' status and employment, says that 25% of Veterans from all other eras have disability ratings.
Among all veterans with a service-connected disability, 29 percent reported a disability rating of less than 30 percent, while another 41 percent had a rating of 60 percent or higher, the BLS said.
For Veterans who served post-9/11, 41 percent, or 1.7 million, reported a service-connected disability in August 2018, and nearly half of those had a service-connected disability of 60 percent or more, BLS said.
Although the report did not discuss why post-9/11 Veterans have a high percentage of disability ratings, the article includes an explanation from Dr. Nicholas Armstrong, a senior researcher at Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families, who indicated that "(a)dvances in battlefield medicine and rapid evacuations to treatment centers have resulted in more veterans surviving wounds that would have killed them in previous wars." Also, he pointed out, there have been advances in the ability to diagnose PTSD.