The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently announced upcoming changes to one of the ways they decide if someone gets ...

When it comes to disability claims in the VA system, hands-down, the most challenged relate to cases involving PTSD. This mental health issue makes life hell, affecting sleep, self-confidence, ...

Editor's note: Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins announced Feb. 19 that the VA “is halting the enforcement of the interim final rule,” Collins said in a post on X. “VA issued the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has halted plans to enforce a controversial rule that would have cut disability compensation for veterans making claims. The decision follows a backlash from ...

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 ...

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 ...

An optometrist provides an eye exam to a VA beneficiary in 2022 at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Michelle Gonzalez/U.S. Army) Veterans Affairs medical examiners are now required to consider the effects of ...

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 ...

Long Island is home to a series of legendary museums. From the Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor to the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, the ...

When a veteran or their family receives a VA decision it arrives as a simple percentage printed on a document. It’s no more dramatic than that. The number doesn’t change when the family feels the pain ...

WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculating benefits ...