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 week after the Department of Veterans Affairs published an interim final rule that would have lowered disability ...

A federal lawsuit is challenging a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires disability ratings to reflect how well veterans function on medication rather than the severity of their underlying ...

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

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

Securing VA disability benefits can be far more complex than many veterans anticipate. Travis Sayre emphasizes that veteran's ...

Halting enforcement is not the same as withdrawing the rule,” said advocates with Burn Pits 360, a nonprofit organization ...

The lawsuit argues that the rule on disability ratings was implemented without proper notice or prior public comment period.

The disability benefits that veterans receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs have become the subject of a growing number of policy papers and editorials that argue those benefits are too ...

A Vietnam war veteran salutes during a Veterans Day ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Veterans with low disability ratings often earn more annually ...

When Glenn Janssen decided to file a claim for disability benefits with the Veterans Affairs Department last year, he dreaded the prospect of dealing with federal bureaucracy and paperwork. Janssen, ...

Veterans want the VA to rescind a controversial regulation published Feb. 17 that put compensation ratings in legal limbo.