The VA disability system evaluates over 900 medical conditions. Understanding medical evidence standards is fundamental to the VA's evaluation process.

Lawyers at the nonprofit National Veterans Legal Services Program had been screening Board of Veterans’ Appeals decisions for years, looking for just the right case involving denial of disability ...

Lawyers at the nonprofit National Veterans Legal Services Program had been screening Board of Veterans’ Appeals decisions for years, looking for just the right case involving denial of disability ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United States promised to take care of its military members when they returned home from war, but the government is failing to live up to its end of the bargain, as up to as many ...

Veterans are often confused about Department of Veterans Affairs 100 percent disability ratings and whether or not they can work if rated at 100 percent. There are several types of 100 percent ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved nearly 80% of the 570,000 claims it has adjudicated under the PACT Act, distributing more than $2.2 billion in disability compensation to veterans or ...

WASHINGTON — A benefits calculator that the Department of Veterans Affairs used for figuring monthly compensation amounts for disabled veterans had errors that incorrectly lowered payments for certain ...

Millions of American veterans are set to receive their monthly disability compensation in August. About 6.2 million veterans in the United States receive disability compensation from the Department of ...

Employees at the Veterans Affairs Department’s regional office in Little Rock, Ark., changed the dates of disability claims in dozens of cases, making it appear that the department was making more ...

Despite more funding and staff at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the backlog of disability claims in Houston has more than doubled since this time three years ago. More than 37,100 claims ...