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 ...

Around 6.5 million U.S. veterans receive monthly, tax-free disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), providing financial support to those whose injuries or illnesses were ...

Disabled veterans can soon look forward to a new round of benefit payments for November. As of 2024, roughly 6.5 million veterans receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Over decades, the government has spent billions on disability payments ...

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 ...

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 Department of Veterans Affairs expects to be nearly $15 billion short of what it needs to pay for benefits and health care this year and next, in part because more veterans are using VA services ...

During his confirmation hearing Jan. 21, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins pledged to preserve veterans benefits and not "balance the budgets on the backs of veterans." But the confirmation of ...

A growing chorus is calling for cuts to Veteran Affairs disability benefits as a way to save federal dollars — a move that ignores the very real costs of two decades of war, and could cause ...