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 Congress Members Want It Rescinded Members of Congress pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs to officially rescind a controversial new rule on the...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...
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...
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...
Two Heroes, Two Medals of Honor: Inside Trump’s State of the Union Tribute Trump awarded two Medals of Honor during his State of the Union — one to a wounded helicopter pilot, another to a 100-year...
Amid Biggest US Military Buildup Since 2003, What Service Members and Families Need to Do Right Now Nobody knows yet whether the current buildup will result in a strike, a deal or a prolonged standoff. What you can control is...
The US Failed to Capture a MiG-15. Then a North Korean Defector Delivered One A secret US operation spent months trying to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 during the Korean War. A North Korean defector who never...
25 Years After 9/11: Former CENTCOM Commander’s Strategic Warning on What America Still Gets Wrong The only U.S. officer to lead PACOM and CENTCOM warns in his memoir that America chases short-term wins over strategy—risking...
Why You Didn’t Get the Job: Understanding How Companies Hire In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and frustrating hiring market, job-seekers are seemingly doing everything right and...
