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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

More than 18,500 veterans sent in comments regarding the new VA policy that would change disability ratings.

VA Secretary Doug Collins said the agency looks to avoid what many perceived as “adverse consequences.” ...

Veterans who rely on disability compensation can expect a meaningful, if modest, lift in their monthly payments in 2026, as benefits are set to rise by 2.8 percent. That adjustment will ripple through ...

The 1945 “whole-person” formula used by the Department of Veterans Affairs presumes independence among various disabilities. But empirical data show that this assumption is faulty, and veterans suffer ...