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DoD Disability Evaluation System
Information about review boards, being found fit for duty and how decisions about medical conditions and disability are made across the military services.
Handbook that helps Service Members who are wounded, ill or injured, as well as the family members who are taking care of them, navigate through the military and disability, evaluation, compensation and benefits
programs that are designed to help them.
Provides an overview of the Air Force Commander Directed Evaluations (CDE), Physical Profiles and Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) systems.
Governs Line of Duty (LOD) determination for Air Force personnel. LOD determinations impact eligibility for disability retirement/severance pay and other benefits.
Establishes procedures for administrative separation or discharge of Air National Guard (ANG) and Air Force Reserve members.
Describes how to retire or discharge Air Force members who are unfit to do their military duties because of physical disability and outlines procedures for examining and discharging or retiring members from the temporary disability retired list (TDRL).
Establishes medical standards for Air Force examinations and prescribes procedures for retiring, discharging or retaining members who, because of physical disability, are unfit to perform their duties.
Provides answers to frequently asked questions about the Air Force Disability Program.
Provides answers to frequently asked questions about the Air Force Physical Evaluation Board (PEB).
Allows a recuperating soldier to live at home and to access medical facilities near home while remaining on active duty.
Provides an overview and answers general questions about the Army Physical Disability Evaluation System (PDES).
Prescribes policies and mandated tasks governing the management and administration of patients, including physical disability processing.
Provides information on medical fitness standards for induction, enlistment, appointment, retention and related policies and procedures.
Provides information on the physical performance evaluation system, which evaluates whether soldiers can perform satisfactorily in their primary occupational specialty in a worldwide field environment.
Governs the evaluation for physical fitness of soldiers who may be unfit to perform military duties because of physical disability.
Provides information on disability retirement benefits.
Describes highlights from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the DoD/VA Physical Disability Evaluation System Pilot project. Examines the major differences between the current and piloted military disability evaluation processes.
Defines and authorizes the Disability Evaluation System (DES).
Implements policy, assigns responsibilities and prescribes procedures for rating disabilities of service members determined to be physically unfit and who are eligible for disability separation or retirement.
Provides legal counsel to assist soldiers throughout the DoD/VA DES Pilot process at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda and Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews Air Force Base.
Defines policy and procedures for retiring or separating service members because of physical disability, making administrative determinations for service members with service incurred or service aggravated conditions, and authorizing a fitness determination for members of the Ready Reserve who are ineligible for benefits because the condition is unrelated to military duty.
Defines policy for the Physical Disability Board of Review, which reassesses the accuracy and fairness of the continued disability ratings assigned to service members who were discharged as unfit for continued military service with a combined disability rating of 20 percent or less and were not found to be eligible for retirement.
Handbook published by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund that outlines benefits, rights and resources available to Service Members and their families to help with financial, medical, educational, employment, legal and other needs.
Legal counsel, information and advocacy for Army soldiers during the MEB and PEB processes.
Personalized disability income calculator estimates the disability-related income due to combat and combat-related injuries. Requires valid Wounded Warrior-provided passcode and active Army Knowledge Online (AKO) account.
Provides general information about the Navy's Physical Evaluation Board's (PEB) Formal Hearing Panel in Bethesda, MD, including directions, lodging, procedures, instructions and rights of the service member.
Provides guidance on supporting sailors during Medical Evaluation Boards (MEBs).
Provides information on transitional medical benefits, the incapacitation pay program, active duty medical extension (ADME), medical retention procession (MRP) and the community based health care initiative (CBHCI) for Army Reservists and National Guardsmen.
Defines policy and procedures regarding incapacitation benefits for Navy and Marine Corps reservists.
Defines policies and procedures for evaluation of physical fitness for duty and disposition of physical disability.
Provides invaluable information on how to navigate the bureaucracy of benefits and programs available to Active Duty military, National Guard, Reservists, Veterans and their family members. This free 599-page guide covers issues from educational help to vocational rehabilitation, from housing to citizenship.
Schedule of ratings used by both the VA and the military in evaluating service-connected disabilities. For an explanation on how combined ratings are determined for numerous compensable conditions, see Section 4.25.
