When Do VA Disability Ratings Become Permanent?

When veterans' VA disability ratings become permanent, how to tell if your VA rating is permanent based on your VA award letter, when VA ratings can be reduced (and when they can't be reduced), when protected VA ratings come into play (e.g. VA disability 5 year rule, 10 year rule), considerations about permanent VA individual unemployability ratings, and how to ask VA to make your rating permanent during and what is the process of making a disability permanent?

00:36 What is a Permanent VA Disability Rating? When Does VA Deem a Disability Permanent?
00:57 Protected VA Ratings: 10 Year Rule, 20 Year Rule, Permanent and Total VA Ratings
01:31 CHAMP VA Medical Benefits
01:38 Chapter 35 DEA Education Benefits
02:19 When VA Cannot Reduce Ratings: 100% Ratings, 5-Year Rule,
02:55 Can Veterans Ask to Make Their VA Ratings Permanent?
03:19 VA 55 Year Old Plus Rule
04:12 Example of Veteran Over 55 with issue with obtaining 100% P & T
04:44 How to Tell if Your Rating Is Permanent on Your VA Award Letter
05:15 Re-Cap
05:45 VA Disability Claim Management & Responsibility
06:24 How to Obtain VA Rating Code sheet