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VA’s Inspector General Says Department of Veterans Affairs is Cooking the Books on VA Disability Claims
Accuracy reports have been manipulated by the Department of Veterans Affairs to make it appear employees make fewer...
VA to Start Burn Pit Registry For Iraq & Afghanistan Vets
In an effort to determine whether there are long-term health consequences associated with exposure to open burn pits,...
VA Adds 1,000 VA Mental Health Professionals To Staff
The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it has added more than 1,000 VA mental health professionals and 200...
U.S. Court of Appeals For Veterans Claims Finally Has Full Bench of Judges
With the commencement of service of Judge William S. Greenberg, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, which...
How to File a VA Benefits Claim
How to file a VA benefits claim: You must first complete an Application for Compensation (VA From 21-526). If the...
Temporary 100 Percent Disability Ratings Subject of House Hearing
The Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs held a...
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury was established in 2007 to...
Can Homelessness Extend VA Benefit Appeal Deadlines?
Generally, veterans have 120 days to appeal unfavorable Board decisions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans...
Iraq & Afghanistan Vets Show Gulf War Illness Symptoms
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from the 20-year-old set of symptoms known as Gulf War...
Supreme Court Denies Hearing on Suicidal Veterans Turned Away from VA
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the landmark case brought by Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) and Veterans...
Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illness
In the two decades since the 1991 Persian Gulf war, medical researchers have struggled to explain a mysterious amalgam...
Aggravation of Medical Conditions Should be Considered by VA
El-Amin v. Shinseki In El-Amin v. Shinseki, Docket no. 10-3031, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims vacated...
House Chairman on Veterans Affairs Targets Veterans Disability Claims
"Improving access to mental health counseling and finally making a dent in the mountain of disability claims are the...
Increasing Veteran Disability Costs Since 2000
What the nation owes each year to veterans who are disabled during service has more than doubled since 2000,...
Should the CAVC be Reversing More Cases?
Veterans advocates have long criticized the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) for remanding claims back to...
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