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

Following outcry from veterans, the VA plans to formally rescind a rule that would have changed the way it evaluates ...

VA has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that the VA disability claims backlog dipped below 100,000 for the first time ...

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

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Paul Lawrence said the VA realizes it needs to communicate better with veteran groups.

"This administration has turned its back on veterans every single time an opportunity has presented itself," Tammy Duckworth ...

The VA will continue collecting public comment on the rule but it "will not be enforced at any time in the future," VA ...

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

The VA paused a rule that bases compensation on how a veteran does on medication and not on the injury or illness, but it ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week abruptly reversed course on a new rule requiring veterans’ disability ratings to be calculated by how well they function on medication and not on the ...

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.