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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The rule, which had gone into effect without prior notice, was quickly condemned by veterans groups as effectively lowering a veteran’s disability rating.

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.

Veterans groups said the rule is an “abrupt shift” and was “issued in a closed and unnecessarily expedited process.” ...

VA has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time since 2020.