DoD Referral to Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) (VA Form 21-0819)

This form is used in a joint effort between VA and the Department of Defense (DoD), as recommended by former President Bush’s Interagency Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes, to determine an injured or ill Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) service member’s military readiness fitness for military retention, level of disability for retirement, and VA Disability compensation. VA Form 21-0819 has been updated, to include: • A new title. • New standardization data points; to include optical character recognition boxes. This is a non-substantive change. • The burden has been decreased from 30 to 15 minutes.

The latest form for DoD Referral to Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) (VA Form 21-0819) expires 2021-07-31 and can be found here.