compute_retroactive_pay

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Use this when a veteran gives an effective date and a rating increase and asks what the retroactive amount would be. Returns an estimate of the difference in monthly compensation for each month of the period, with a per-month breakdown, the assumptions behind it, and its own disclaimer. Under 38 CFR 3.31 payment starts on the first day of the month FOLLOWING the month the award became effective, with no exception when the effective date is itself the first of a month, and the period runs through the month of adjudication. Monthly rates for payment years 2000 onward are read from VA published rate tables; earlier years are reconstructed from the current published table back-adjusted by the SSA cost-of-living chain, and the result states which of the two the requested period used. The total is an estimate either way, because dependent status is taken as constant across the period. It handles an increase only: the new rating has to be higher than the previous one, and effective dates before 1990 are refused. It does not set an effective date and it does not report an amount VA has authorized.