Editor profile

Vincent Roy

Editor, VetDisabilityCalc · Independent researcher

What I do here

I research and edit every page on VetDisabilityCalc. The content model is straightforward: read the relevant section of 38 CFR (Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations), cross-check the VA's official monthly compensation tables on VA.gov, and where the regulation is ambiguous, reference the VA Adjudication Procedures Manual (M21-1) or published Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims decisions. Every dollar figure, percentage bracket, and effective date on the site is traceable to a published source cited in the article.

The site is a reference resource — not a representation service, not a coaching service, and not a lived-experience publication. We do not interpret a specific veteran's claim record, we do not advise on filing strategy for a particular case, and we do not collect identifying information.

Background

I am the sole member of Zoom Lifestyle LLC, the publisher of VetDisabilityCalc and several other independent reference sites. My background is in research, editing, and small-business operations — not in military service, government employment, law, or medicine.

This is the central disclosure of this site's E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) framework: I do not have lived military experience and I am not a credentialed VA-system practitioner. What I bring is editorial discipline — reading primary federal regulations carefully, citing them transparently, and updating the content when the underlying rules change (notably the annual December cost-of-living adjustment under 38 USC 5312 and any mid-cycle regulatory changes).

Why a faceless reference site is the right model

VA disability is a high-stakes information area. A reader's livelihood may depend on knowing the right diagnostic code, the right effective-date rule, or the right presumptive eligibility category. We deliberately avoid two failure modes common in this niche:

• Lived-experience writing by non-experts. First-person veteran stories are valuable on platforms designed for that purpose. They are misleading when used to imply system-wide knowledge of the regulations, which is a different skill set.
• Implicit-authority presentation. Some sites in this niche use military imagery, military fonts, and combat-photo hero shots to suggest insider status. We do not. The visual design is deliberately bureaucratic-clean to signal that the content is regulatory reference, not advocacy.

The trade-off is that the site does not feel "warm." A veteran looking for someone who understands the lived experience of the claims process should consult a VSO representative, a peer-support group, or a veteran-owned publication. The role of this site is to be the citation-grade reference layer underneath any of those interactions.

Editorial process per article

For each rating-criteria page, the workflow is:

1. Pull the current text of the relevant 38 CFR section from eCFR (the official electronic Code of Federal Regulations).
2. Translate the regulatory language into a structured guide: TL;DR, rating brackets table, service-connection paths, evidence checklist, common pitfalls, and a worked numeric example.
3. Cross-check the dollar figures against the current VA.gov monthly compensation page (updated each December for the new COLA).
4. Where the regulation is ambiguous, reference the VA Adjudication Procedures Manual (M21-1) or a published Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims decision. Citations are inline.
5. Add structured-data markup (Article + FAQPage schema, where applicable) so search engines and AI search tools have machine-readable context.
6. Re-review annually in December when the COLA changes the compensation tables, and ad-hoc when a regulatory change (Agent Orange presumptive list expansion, PACT Act amendment, etc.) requires it.

Corrections + contact

If you find an error on any page — a wrong dollar figure, a misquoted bracket, a stale citation — please flag it via the address on our Contact page. Verified corrections are typically published within five business days of confirmation, with a dated correction note added to the page.

We do not respond to: unsolicited paid placement offers, generic SEO outreach, guest-post submissions, link-exchange requests, or solicitations from agencies on behalf of clients. These messages are filtered.

Other sites

Zoom Lifestyle LLC publishes a small portfolio of independent reference sites covering different consumer information niches. I edit the content on all of them. The VetDisabilityCalc content is independent from the other portfolio sites — no shared affiliate relationships, no cross-linking outside genuine topical relevance.

Related pages

• About VetDisabilityCalc — site mission and editorial standards
• Disclaimer — full scope-of-work and limitations
• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy