Helping veterans get through the red tape of applying for VA disability benefits has become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past decade. Which might be surprising, because charging vets for ...

The VA is processing claims faster than ever. The backlog is the lowest it's been in years. And your 2024 medical records are ...

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WASHINGTON — Veterans groups urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to take steps to end common mistakes in claims reviews for disability that include redundant requests for veterans to undergo more ...

WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups that help veterans file disability claims for free with the Department of Veterans Affairs are opposing a Republican-led bill that would enable commercial companies to ...

He wears a straw cowboy hat, flashes fistfuls of cash and has attracted nearly 200,000 YouTube subscribers with his “Secret Strategies for Winning Big with VA Disability Claims.” The Gulf War ...

With six weeks still left to go in fiscal 2025, the Veterans Affairs Department announced Wednesday the agency has already processed a single-year record of 2,524,115 veteran disability compensation ...

If you’re a veteran of the armed forces, you certainly learned your share of military-specific jargon, acronyms, and other ...

Those who serve in the military put themselves in harm’s way to protect the country in its time of need, and benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs are in place to return that ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Over decades, the government has spent billions on disability payments ...

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. It started in 2017 with a group of ...