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.

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are already trying to restrict veteran care through bills that seek to ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time since 2020. VA said it has cut the ...

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

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

VA Secretary Douglas A. Collins posted on X on Thursday that the agency will not enforce the rule but will continue to ...

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 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.

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 ...

VA benefits veterans disability compensation payments to spike after 2026 COLA update as the confirmed 2.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment moves into effect on December 1, 2025. This explainer ...