This map from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows (in green) more than 34,000 zip codes where Compensation and Pension exams have resumed following restrictions put in place at the start of the ...

William Howart, a medical instrument technologist, performs an ultrasound examination on the neck of a patient on Feb. 27, 2016, at the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System in New York. (Barb ...

WASHINGTON — If there's one thing veterans know about, it's waiting. And now, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, they've had to wait some more. The Department of Veterans Affairs backlog on crucial ...

WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has caused a major backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs, especially when it comes to rendering decisions on veterans' disability claims. Advocacy groups ...

In a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pushed for answers by May 14 to an array of questions about VA compensation and pension exams done by private contractors ...

John Keith Taylor was denied a disability rating for scars without ever having an evaluation of the tumors, which was the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will soon be resuming medical examinations for disability compensation benefits at select locations across the country, VA officials announced today. Both ...

May 29 (UPI) --The Department of Veterans Affairs, with a backlog of 114,000 cases, announced that it will resume in-person disability examinations at some VA medical centers. Although examinations ...

As of 2024, around 6.5 million veterans receive tax-free disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ...

About 1 million veterans have painful scars that qualify them for disability benefits. A change in the rule could make those ...