The Department of Veterans Affairs says it’s making major strides in speeding up disability claims, reducing backlogs, and ...

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins testifies before his Senate Veterans Affairs committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on January 21. On Tuesday, Collins reported the ...

Criteria the VA developed in 1945 do not align with modern medicine, employment and the impact of disabilities on a veteran’s ...

Right now, nearly 1 in 3 initial VA disability claims are denied. We built VABN University to be the West Point of the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs will stop approving most new need-based apportionments of veterans' benefits beginning ...

The seal on the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, D.C. is shown in June 2013. (Charles Dharapak/AP) The backlog of veterans first-time disability claims in coming ...

There were recent concerns that benefits for veterans could be impacted by lower staffing levels after VA confirmed more than ...

The VA disability benefits framework was designed to provide veterans with structured, lawful access to compensation connected to their service. Over time, as eligibility standards have evolved and ...

WASHINGTON — Billy Whyde, a Navy veteran in Columbus, Ohio, has filed five disability claims in 15 months with the Department of Veterans Affairs for a chronic neurological condition he said he ...

When Navy veteran Melissa Washington wanted to reapply for an increase in her disability benefits, she selected a for-profit firm — Veteran Benefits Guide — to cut down on the paperwork and ...

U.S. war veterans filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the help they received to file federal disability benefits is part of an illegal predatory business, according to one of their lawyers. The ...