---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 3.323"
title: "38"
number: "3.323"
heading: "Combined ratings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/3.323"
---

# §3.323. Combined ratings.

- (a) **Compensation—**
  - (1) **Same type of service.** When there are two or more service-connected compensable disabilities a combined evaluation will be made following the tables and rules prescribed in the 1945 Schedule for Rating Disabilities.
  - (2) **Wartime and peacetime service.** Evaluation of wartime and peacetime service-connected compensable disabilities will be combined to provide for the payment of wartime rates of compensation. ([38 U.S.C. 1157](/usc/38/1157.md)) Effective July 1, 1973, it is immaterial whether the disabilities are wartime or peacetime service-connected since all disabilities are compensable under 38 U.S.C. [1114](/usc/38/1114.md) and [1115](/usc/38/1115.md) on and after that date.
- (b) **Pension—**
  - (1) **Nonservice-connected disabilities.** Evaluation of two or more nonservice-connected disabilities not the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct will be combined as provided in [paragraph (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section.
  - (2) **Service-connected and nonservice-connected disabilities.** Evaluations for service-connected disabilities may be combined with evaluations for disabilities not shown to be service connected and not the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct.

## Notes

### Amendments

[26 FR 1583, Feb. 24, 1961, as amended at 38 FR 21923, Aug. 14, 1973; 61 FR 20438, May 7, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[26 FR 1583, Feb. 24, 1961, as amended at 38 FR 21923, Aug. 14, 1973; 61 FR 20438, May 7, 1996]