VA Disability Blog
How Does VA Determine Your Effective Date for Disability Benefits?
We receive a lot of calls from veterans who believe that they should be getting benefits back to the date that they...
Veterans Help Group Host Clearwater Threshers Veterans and Military Appreciation Night Game
At Veterans Help Group we support and represent the rights of Veterans. Many of us are veterans ourselves. We know and...
Survey of Newer Veterans Proves Insightful
The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is a veterans group that has grown to have a large voice these...
Transforming the VA, Including Reducing PTSD Treatment Wait Time, Will Be a Hard Road for Robert McDonald
Robert McDonald, President Obama's choice to replace former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, pledged Tuesday to transform...
New Study Supports Link Between Combat and Suicide Risk
Last Thursday a paper was published online in Current Psychiatric Reports that hopes to shed light on why an...
In Memoriam: James Garner
Many know James Garner for his roles as Brett Maverick in the comedy series “Maverick” and as a detective in “The...
PTSD and TBI High Tech Treatments
An earlier post noted that some veterans report poor results from traditional PTSD treatments. New high-tech...
VA Continues Shell Game With Claims Backlog
Long before the VA scandal involving the wait times and secret wait lists at the hospitals and clinics, the VA was...
The Importance of a C&P Examination
In almost any case where a veteran has a disability that may be related to active service, the VA will schedule an...
Another Study Linking Veterans with Brain Injury and Dementia
Findings of a new study published June 25th online in the journal Neurology suggest that veterans who have experienced...
PTSD and TBI Treatment Ineffective According to Veterans
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) are the signature injuries of veterans from OIF...
Do I need a hearing before a VA judge?
One decision that veterans often have to make as they take their cases to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (the second...
VA Struggles to Meet Demand for Mental Health Treatment
During past wars and conflicts, being on the lookout for soldiers with mental conditions was not as prevalent as it is...
Report Finds That Military Sexual Trauma Cases Are Inconsistently Handled
Military Sexual Trauma (MST) has been a hot-button issue of late. There was a strong push in Congress to adopt the...
VA’s Duty to Address All Issues Raised by the Record — You Still May Need Help with a Veterans Disability Claim
The veteran’s claims processing system is set up to be easy for veterans to navigate. Unfortunately, the laws...
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