Category 1: When You Were Released From Active Duty, You Were Given a One-Time Severance PaymentIf you fall into this category, the maximum additional benefits for PTSD that you could receive from this lawsuit are the following:

• Correction of your military records to show that on the date you were discharged, you were assigned a PTSD disability rating of at least 50% for the first six months following your discharge, followed by a permanent PTSD rating, ranging up to 100%.
  
  
• Entitlement to 75% military disability retirement pay for the rest of your life;
  
  
• Entitlement to military health care benefits (TRICARE) for the rest of your life;
  
  
• Entitlement of your spouse to military health care benefits (TRICARE) for the rest of the life of your current spouse or anyone you may marry in the future;
  
  
• Entitlement of your children to military health care benefits (TRICARE) while they are minors;
  
  
• Military Commissary and Exchange privileges for the rest of your life; and
  
  
• Reimbursement of the expenses that were paid for the medical treatment of you, your spouse, and your minor children from the date you were discharged to the date your records are corrected to show that you were medically retired on a permanent basis.

The first item on this list of additional benefits involves correction of military records. This records correction may, or may not, result in a retroactive payment to compensate you for the fact that you did not receive military disability retirement pay from the date of your discharge to the present. The highest amount of back pay you might receive if this lawsuit is completely successful is the total military disability retirement pay you would have received from the date of your discharge to the present if you had been assigned at least a 50% rating for PTSD, along with the ratings, if any, that the PEB assigned to you for medical conditions other than PTSD. Be advised, however, that a number of factors could reduce this amount to a lower amount, or to zero. These factors include the following: the amount of the severance payment you received when you were discharged; the amount of VA disability compensation, if any, that you have received from the date of your discharge to the present; and whether you would be entitled to Combat-Related Special Compensation.

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