The Department of Veterans Affairs set records in multiple areas this past fiscal year -- a pace officials say they hope to continue in 2024 with targeted hiring for high-demand jobs, it announced ...

Suppose you are the surviving spouse, child, or parent of a servicemember who died in the line of duty, or the survivor of a veteran who died from a service-related injury or illness. In that case, ...

When you apply for VA disability benefits, you may be asked to attend what's called a VA claim exam, also known as a compensation and pension (C&P) exam. This isn't a routine medical appointment, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs warned that the backlog to process claims could double over the next year, reaching "potentially up to 400,000." VA Undersecretary for Benefits Joshua Jacobs said ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Wednesday announced it had processed more disability benefits claims in a single year than ever before. The VA said it reached the milestone by August 8, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has failed to investigate why Black veterans are consistently turned down for disability payments at a higher rate than white veterans, a disparity some veterans ...

America’s population of living veterans fell by almost fi ve million, or 17 percent, from 2000 to 2013. So why did the number of veterans drawing disability compensation climb by 55 percent over that ...

Mistakes by employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs while processing claims for veterans rated as 100% disabled resulted in around $100 million in improper monthly compensation payments, ...

WASHINGTON — Roughly 100,000 veterans who received bonuses to separate from the military early have been forced to return the money in the last 10 years because they were also receiving disability ...

Last year, President Biden signed the PACT Act which fundamentally changed the way veterans could get disability compensation for their war-related illnesses. More than 801,000 veterans and their ...

Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims — including cases of brazen fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars — that are exploiting the country’s sacred ...