VA disability benefits can be difficult, but knowing how to check your VA claim status and monitor the status of your claim or appeal might bring some relief. How To Check the Status of a VA Claim To check their VA claims status, most Veterans choose to go on to […]
On November 17, 2021, the VA started mailing out notices to hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans. The notices were court-ordered due to the recent Beaudette v. McDonough case. They let veterans know they could be eligible for Caregiver Program reinstatement, back pay, or higher benefit amounts. The groundbreaking April […]
Click here for our 2023 overview on how to calculate your VA monthly disability payment amounts. On December 1, 2021, the new veterans disability rates for 2022 went into effect. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) updates veterans’ disability compensation rates at the end of each year. For 2022, VA […]
Nothing is more frustrating than a VA compensation and pension (“C&P”) exam report that wrongly concludes service connection is not warranted. And most of VA’s denials are based on these VA exam reports. Therefore, having several techniques for discrediting a VA doctor is necessary for a veteran’s strategic arsenal. If […]
Concerns over an already unreliable VA system grew in July 2020 when VA proposed to modify its character of discharge regulations, specifying reasons for discharge that it would consider “dishonorable” and ineligible for VA benefits. VA’s AQ95 Proposed Rule aims to “update and clarify regulatory bars to benefits based on […]
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims issued its Annual Report for the Fiscal Year 2020, which ran from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020. The report paints a discouraging picture of a court stretched to its limits, where appellants face long wait times for dispositions […]
Medicare fraud involving care provided to veterans is rampant. Since late 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs have collaborated to stop fraud by exchanging Medicare sanctions data. Though the initiative has helped prevent some bad providers from participating in federal healthcare […]
Hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans have had to make an agonizing decision if they fell into serious financial difficulties. For the past 14 years, such veterans considering bankruptcy protection had to decide whether to use their monthly disability payment toward the settlement or keep spiraling downward financially since these […]
Nexus letters are one of the most (if not THE most) important parts of a claim for VA benefits. If you don’t get it right, it could cost you years of appeals or eliminate your chance for veterans’ benefits altogether. But getting a good nexus letter that supports your claim […]
On February 19, 2019, the VA announced the end of the VA RAMP program, moving entirely into the new veterans’ appeals law – the Appeals Modernization Act (“AMA”). Here’s hoping this attempt at VA appeals reform continues to eliminate the backlog and helps get veterans the benefits they deserve. So […]
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