FYI, if you received any form of Severance Pay from the Military. The VA will recoup before you receive any compensation.

That's why I was forced out of the service due to a back injury on active duty that was not combat related. Eighteen and a half years and a broken back in a free fall demonstration jump sent me out the door with no VA disability payments until July, 2016 - 24 years after I was separated!

Wow, that is really terrible. I used the Texas Veterans Commission and they had my claim within 6 months. Sorry to hear about your ordeal brother.

I speak as someone who is in the same boat and has been researching this but the regulation states you cannot collect both drill pay and VA disability compensation pay for any day you are drilling during that month; this also includes your AT as well. So at the end of the fiscal year your husband will receive a letter from the VA stating this is what they have annotated as the amount of days you collected both drill pay and VA disability pay. For a Reservist doing only the standard one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year it generally comes out to about 63 days give or take (this is dependent on going to schools, extra drill days, medical, dental visits, etc. etc.). On that form will be how much you owe the VA and how you want to go about paying it back. Usually the best thing to do is to let them recoup whatever amount you owe out of your monthly VA disability compensation pay as your husband actually ends up making more money per day in drill pay than he would in monthly compensation pay. I'm just gonna throw out this number so take it with a grain of salt but say your husband's monthly disability compensation pay is $300. If you divide that by 30 you get $10 a day which is how much the VA pays but they pay it up front for 30 days. Now say your husband makes $150 in a 2 day drill weekend. If you divide that by 2 your husband actually makes $75 a day in drill pay compared to the $10 a day in VA disability compensation pay. So you see how its more lucrative to keep your drill pay and maybe set aside $20 from that drill pay and put it in a savings account that you can dip into when the VA sends their letter of intent to collect. That's the current plan I have in place right now so I'll let you know at the end of this FY19 if I made the right choice. Blessings!!!