VA Secretary Doug Collins attends a Purple Heart Day event in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Veterans will have their disability compensation evaluated based on whether their prescribed medication or treatment improves their illness or injury, according to a new federal rule. The Department ...

A federal lawsuit is challenging a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires disability ratings to reflect how well veterans function on medication rather than the severity of their underlying ...

Veterans and advocates are struggling to understand the ramifications of a new federal rule, under which the Department of Veterans Affairs will consider the effectiveness of medications when ...

VA disability benefits in 2026: A 70% disability rating from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers far more than a monthly check. It opened the door to expanded healthcare coverage, ...

VA is in the middle of a multi-year effort to modernize the Veterans Affairs Schedule for Rating Disabilities, the regulatory framework that assigns percentage ratings intended to approximate average ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Department of Veterans Affairs rule that would tie disability ratings more closely to how well medication controls symptoms ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans and their advocates slammed a new rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs for determining disability compensation, predicting it will lower their payments for service-related ...

Veterans Affairs medical examiners are now required to consider the effects of medication on a veteran's health condition when assigning a disability rating under a new regulation published Tuesday by ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A federal rule change could lower disability compensation for millions of veterans. On Feb. 17, the DVA amended an interim final rule that they say clarifies the DVA’s ...