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...
Federal Lawsuit Challenges VA’s New Rule on Medication-Based Disability Ratings A federal lawsuit is challenging a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires disability ratings to reflect how well...
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...
Disabled Combat Veterans Feel Shortchanged, Push for Retirement Benefits Disabled combat veterans Chad Rogers and Lyle Allen of Tennessee say an unfair system is blocking them from receiving the...
2026 VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) Rates VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) is a monthly benefit paid to eligible survivors of deceased service members or...
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...
Could There be a Military Draft? Trump Administration Says it's 'On Table' Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were the latest officials asked about "boots on the...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Left Face Down in the Mud: How an Air Force Veteran, Amputee Found Hope A life-changing injury and having to raise three kids alone made Jason Morgan more resolute in the long run.
SNL Mocks Iran Conflict as Pete Hegseth Calls It a ‘Situationship’ “This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost...
