EMERIT
Emerit works out what the VA already owes you — extra statutory pay, back pay from an earlier effective date, and which of your ratings they can no longer cut. Every figure shows the federal rule it came from.
Most veterans have never heard of SMC. It is the pay system that sits on top of your rating.
Special Monthly Compensation is real, it is federal law, and it is paid on top of the percentage you already have. Emerit tells you whether you look eligible — and shows you the rule — for nothing.
You put your ratings in once. Everything below is computed from that, offline, on your phone.
Whether you look eligible, and at which level. The most-missed one is loss of use of a creative organ — it includes erectile dysfunction caused by a service-connected condition or its medication.
What an earlier effective date is worth. Payments begin the first day of the month after the effective date — not on it — which quietly costs most estimates a month.
Which ratings are locked under the 5-, 10- and 20-year rules, which are exposed, and the exact date each one changes.
The one-year window to file a Supplemental Claim or a Higher-Level Review, counted down and reminded before it closes.
A claim takes the VA an average of 71 days, and often far longer. Most apps go silent for that entire stretch.
Emerit counts the days, names the step you are sitting in using the VA's own eight-step wording, and says plainly when you are past the average — and what that does and does not mean. It never implies it has spoken to the VA. It has not. The VA's own app has the live status; Emerit tells you what the status means.
No account. No login. No server copy of anything.
Your ratings, percentages, effective dates, dependents and deadlines are written to your device and nowhere else. There is no sign-in because there is nothing to sign in to. Moving to a new phone is a backup file you export and import yourself.
The one thing that ever leaves is feedback you type and send on purpose. That is spelled out in full on the privacy page.
no purchase, no subscription, no account
Emerit is a reference tool. It does not file your claim and it cannot represent you.
Your county Veterans Service Officer can do both, and their help is free — always. The app puts that link on its own settings screen, because a tool that hid it would not deserve your trust.