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Decision letter decoder

VA rating decisions are dense on purpose. Paste the text — we pull combined %, conditions, deferred/denied issues, dates, TDIU, SMC, and P&T into a checklist you can actually use.

Decision letter decoder

Paste rating decision text. We highlight combined %, conditions, deferred/denied issues, effective dates, TDIU, SMC, and P&T — then give you a plain checklist. Runs in your browser.

Tip: In most PDF viewers, open the decision, select text (or Ctrl+A), copy, paste here. Image-only scans need OCR first. Nothing is uploaded to our servers.

Decoded snapshot

Paste a letter to decode

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What this means / next moves

  • Paste more letter text

    Copy from the rating decision PDF (Ctrl+A in the viewer, or select the decision narrative + codesheet).

Checklist

  1. Open your rating decision PDF and paste the text here.

Not legal advice and not affiliated with VA. Parsing is best-effort. Always trust the official PDF and an accredited VSO over this tool.

How to use this

Open your rating decision PDF, copy the decision narrative (and codesheet if you can select it), and paste it into the tool. Use Load sample first to see what a clean extract looks like. Then run real numbers through Am I underpaid?, combined rating calculator, or evidence gap checker for deferred/denied issues.

This does not replace a VSO reading the letter. Odd formats and scanned pages without text will extract poorly — that's a limitation of the letter, not you.

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