WASHINGTON ( DC News Now) — This week, the U.S House passed a bill allowing a compensation increase for veterans with service ...

VA announced the updated service-connected disability rates effective Dec. 1, 2020. The new single veteran rates are as follows: 0%, $0.00; 10%, $144.14; 20%, $284.93 ...

Obesity cannot be considered a service-connected disability, according to a new ruling by the Department of Veterans Affairs General Counsel expected to be published in the April 8, 2019, edition of ...

By: Marci Hill Jordan, Esq. Veterans are generally eligible for compensation for injuries or diseases that occur or are aggravated in the line of active military duty. While there are pensions ...

December’s VA payments will be issued on December 31, which falls on a Wednesday and coincides with New Year’s Eve.

With the full-throated support of numerous national veterans-service organizations, lawmakers are introducing bills in the 118th Congress to fully repeal the offset of military retired pay for every ...

There are some 6.2 million Veterans in the U.S. who receive disability benefits from the VA. Compensation offers tax-free monthly benefits for those with disabilities resulting from diseases, events, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs will change its disability ratings criteria for mental health conditions, sleep apnea and tinnitus, part of a major overhaul of the review process to ensure that ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CN) - The Pentagon has wrongfully discharged nearly 26,000 service members since 2001 "on the basis of so-called 'personality disorder'" - rather than for post-traumatic stress or ...