Sometimes, a veteran’s injuries or conditions may warrant a higher rate of compensation than the highest schedular disability rating (100%) provides. These higher rates of compensation are known as VA special monthly compensation (SMC). VA pays SMC compensation to veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses, or parents with certain needs or disabilities.

A common example of SMC is SMC-k. SMC-k is an amount paid monthly to the veteran, in addition to their disability payment, if the veteran has suffered the loss or loss of use of one or more creative organ(s); one foot; one hand; both buttocks; or blindness or one eye; or in the case of a woman veteran, has suffered the loss of tissue from a single breast or both breasts; or has received radiation treatment of breast tissue. This rate can be increased based on the number of anatomical losses.  Another common example of SMC is Aid and Attendance (A&A).

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