The Department of Veterans Affairs has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time since 2020. VA said it has cut the ...

A Federal Register notice says the VA is rescinding a final interim rule and restoring the standard for calculating veterans disability ratings.

The measure would allow medically retired military personnel to receive both their full retirement pay and VA disability ...

A policy requiring VA medical examiners to include effects of medication in assigning disability ratings is expected to be ...

Department of Veterans Affairs published an interim final rule that changes one deceptively simple question at the heart of ...

Under a new rule, the Department of Veterans Affairs will lower veterans’ disability pay if medication improves their ...

The VA now requires disability ratings to reflect a veteran’s condition as it appears while medicated, rather than estimating how severe it would be without treatment.

Under a previous court precedent, VA examiners were required to consider what a veteran’s disability would look like without medication. Under the new rule, the rating is based on how the veteran ...

A federal rule change could lower disability compensation for millions of veterans. On February 17th, the DVA amended an ...

When a veteran passes away, their VA disability payments generally stop immediately, as compensation is intended solely for ...

Senator Tammy Duckworth criticizes VA's controversial disability compensation rule change, highlighting risks to veterans and ...

Back pain is one of the most common disability claims among veterans, yet the ratings awarded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) can vary widely from one veteran to an ...