Adding insult to injury are the lengthy denial letters the VA sends about the status of his claims and his rights for appeal, he said. The letters are 10 to 20 pages with legal explanations that ...

Currently the only way you can appeal the VA's decision on your disability claim is by going to the Board of Veterans' Appeals, a process that takes an average of seven years.The new law is meant ...

Applying for VA disability benefits can be a daunting and lengthy process. Veterans often face challenges as they navigate the intricacies of filing claims, sometimes ending in d ...

Veterans with an 80% disability rating from the VA are set to receive a substantial increase in monthly compensations in 2025 ...

The appeals system does not have enough staff to handle the record number of veterans — from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Vietnam — filing for disability payments over the last ...

If the veteran pursues the case outside VA to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, it takes an additional 321 days on average, according to court documents.

WASHINGTON – A special federal court that hears veterans’ disability appeals is facing its highest caseload ever as the government increasingly turns down benefits for war veterans, its chief ...

Brett Buchanan, U.S. Army veteran and director of Allsup Veterans Appeals “The VA disability claims and appeals process is difficult to navigate and extremely congested,” said Brett Buchanan ...

A "tsunami" of appeals on veterans' disability claims is looming, as the Department of Veterans Affairs' progress in reducing its backlog of claims is coming at the expense of resolving older ...

More than half of all VA disability appeal cases are sent back for another review — sometimes more than once — and must be addressed before new cases are opened, leading some veterans to wait ...

WASHINGTON — Billy Whyde, a Navy veteran in Columbus, Ohio, has filed five disability claims in 15 months with the Department of Veterans Affairs for a chronic neurological condition he ...

As of May 2025, the VA reported more than 877,000 pending disability claims, including over 201,000 rating-related claims delayed beyond 125 days—highlighting the urgent and escalating challenge ...