VA Is Rewriting Big Pieces of the Disability Rating Playbook VA is proposing major changes to disability ratings for sleep apnea, tinnitus, and mental health, shifting away from device...
VA Won’t Enforce New Rule on Disability Ratings, Secretary Says. Congress Members Want It Rescinded Members of Congress pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs to officially rescind a controversial new rule on the...
New VA Rule Ties Disability Ratings to Medicated Symptoms, Drawing Fire From Veterans Groups Under a previous court precedent, VA examiners were required to consider what a veteran’s disability would look like without...
Why Some Disabled Veterans Can't Get Both VA Disability and Military Retirement Pay Military service members planning medical retirement face a critical decision point at the 20-year mark.
Ask Lacey: Is Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay Taxed? Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP) can be hard to wrap your head around, especially when it comes to taxes and...
Why Veterans’ 2.8% Disability Pay Raise Feels Smaller Than It Should The cost-of-living adjustment reflects cooling inflation, but veterans are still dealing with prices far higher than before...
Former VA Employee Indicted For Alleged Disability Fraud Criminal Scheme An ex-employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs faces 33 criminal counts for allegedly raking in huge sums for fake...
The VA Clothing Allowance: What Veterans Need To Know For many veterans, service comes with costs that linger long after discharge. Prosthetic limbs and orthopedic braces wear...
VA Processes Record-Breaking Number of Disability Claims This Year, with 62% Approval Rate The department has made changes in the past several years designed to process disability compensation claims faster and...
Tips for Filing a Disability Claim Applying for VA disability benefits can be daunting. Here are a few tips and tricks that can make it easier and speed things...
Could There Be a Military Draft? Trump Administration Says It's 'On Table' Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were the latest officials asked about "boots on the...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Left Face Down in the Mud: How an Air Force Veteran, Amputee Found Hope A life-changing injury and having to raise three kids alone made Jason Morgan more resolute in the long run.
SNL Mocks Iran Conflict as Pete Hegseth Calls It a ‘Situationship’ “This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost...
