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Veterans may be interested to know that the Obama administration has the VA backlog shrinking, successfully decreasing the amount of applications for disability by 20 percent. The President doesn't feel that it's enough and has

Many changes have been made in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs concerning how claims of veterans are being handled after studies revealed that an increasing number of claims were presenting multiple medical issues, leading

Compensation Compensation is not a needs or income-based program. Veteran's applying for service connected disability compensation do not need to have total disability, low income or wartime service in order to be eligible. Veteran's seeking

Veterans may be interested in the response of some veterans groups to proposed changes to the benefit claims process from the Department of Veterans Affairs. On Oct. 31, the VA published proposals to administer different

Veterans who have been through the Department of Veterans Affairs disability claims process may be interested in a story about a veteran who feels that he has been left behind by the system. Though friends

Recently, in Jones v. Shinseki, ___ Vet.App. ___ (Case no. 11-2704) (2012) , the Court of Appeals for Veterans' Claims considered whether the ameliorative effects of medication on symptoms of a service-connected disability justified a

How Do I Know If I Qualify For An Earlier Effective Date? Part I: Did you serve in Vietnam and do you have a qualifying Agent Orange disability? On May 14, 1991, the federal court

Mistakes in processing VA disability claims are not only correctable administrative issues (as we described in our previous post) they contribute to the growing backlog of pending disability claims. Even more tragic, a large number

After veterans establish service connection for a disability or disabilities resulting from their military service, the VA rates their disabilities from 0 to 100 percent for purposes of determining the amount of monthly compensation. The

While many of our posts have reported on the growing backlog of disability cases, we came across a story that described the difficulty some injured veterans had in appealing their claims. The difficulty involved a