Veterans Disability Info Blog

Losing a loved one is incredibly difficult, and dealing with the financial aspects that follow can be overwhelming. If you were married to a veteran, you may be eligible for benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help ease the financial burden.  Types of VA Death Benefits for […]

When a veteran dies as a result of a service-connected disability, some of the survivors of the veteran may be entitled to a tax-free monthly benefit known as Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC). While there are specific eligibility rules, the surviving spouses, children, and parents generally qualify to collect DIC.  […]

As the current rules stand, surviving spouses of deceased service members and veterans who remarry before the age of 55 may encounter unexpected adverse consequences.

Dependents and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) is available to certain relatives of veterans who either (a) die of conditions sustained (or aggravated) during active duty, or (b) are, by law, deemed as though they had died as a result of a service-related condition. For purposes of DIC, service includes service in […]

There is more information regarding the investigation into the deaths from insulin overdoses of at least 11 veterans at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, four hours from Washington, D.C. Authorities have identified a “person of interest” in the investigation, although she has not been […]

Something is very wrong at a Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia. There have been at least 11 suspicious deaths at the facility in a two-year period, and federal prosecutors are investigating. Many of these deaths involve incorrect insulin injections in patients, stirring fears there is a […]

I recently developed a new strategy in my never-ending quest to obtain service connection for veterans suffering from severe psychiatric disabilities.  In many cases there’s no evidence of in-service psychiatric problems and the diagnosis of a psychiatric disability occurs many years and sometimes decades after discharge from service.  So how […]

Has the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) denied your Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) benefits claim because they don’t feel post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes vascular dementia or adult failure to thrive? VA examiners continue to view PTSD as a narrow, separate entity and fail to consider the holistic synergistic […]