Applying for a VA disability rating can be a difficult, confusing, and arduous process that can feel overwhelming even for the most prepared veterans. The maze of forms, deadlines, and medical ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans groups urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to take steps to end common mistakes in claims reviews for disability that include redundant requests for veterans to undergo more ...

The Veterans Benefits Administration -- the arm of the Department of Veterans Affairs that adjudicates disability compensation claims -- has processed more than 1 million filings this year and is on ...

The Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) has announced it has set a record for the number of disability benefit claims processed, with more than 2 million so far this year. About 6.2 million veterans ...

Military culture rewards toughness, endurance, and self-reliance. For many veterans, those values persist long after service ...

Medical retirees with fewer than 20 years of service don't qualify for CRDP at all, regardless of their VA disability rating.

NPR has been following the money behind veterans' disability claims — specifically, for-profit companies that help vets navigate the VA's red tape. Critics of the companies call them "claim sharks." A ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans advocates and Democratic lawmakers slammed a recent newspaper report critical of the disability benefits system run by the Department of Veterans Affairs for “cherry-picking ...