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Eligibility for VA Disability. If youâre a veteran suffering from arthritis, there are a number of ways you may be eligible for VA disability. Most specifically, if you were diagnosed with arthritis within a year of being discharged from service, you are presumed to have an impairment that is service-connected.
Rating Arthritis for Military Disability. Determining a military disability rating for arthritis can be frustrating, to say the least. Iâm just going to get this out of the way right off the bat: It totally makes me feel like this guy. There are all sorts of tricky rules in the VASRD that must be considered when rating arthritis.