GAO Questionnaire for VA Rating Specialists

SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES

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07. Listed below are body systems, conditions or disorders.
your experience when using the VA Schedule of Rating
Disabilities and when examination evidence is complete, in
general, how easy or difficult is assigning degrees of
disability (severe, moderately severe, etc.) to each of the
following?

08. For each body system, condition, or disorder that you checked
'generally difficult' or 'very difficult' in QUESTION 07,
(1) the name
please indicate in the sections below for each:

of the body system, condition or disorder and (2) the extent,
if any, each of the following was a reason for the level of
Please assume you have
difficulty for that body system.

complete medical information.

GAO/HRD-89-28 VA's Disability Rating Schedule