Criteria the VA developed in 1945 do not align with modern medicine, employment and the impact of disabilities on a veteran’s ...

About 32,000 veterans’ disability claims were delayed — some as long as five years — due to a technical flaw in federal filing systems, Veterans Affairs officials acknowledged this week. The total ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it’s making major strides in speeding up disability claims, reducing backlogs, and ...

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins testifies before his Senate Veterans Affairs committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on January 21. On Tuesday, Collins reported the ...

Are you living with a disability and want to file a claim but don’t know how to apply or the claim process? The United States government offers several financial assistance programs, like Social ...

Right now, nearly 1 in 3 initial VA disability claims are denied. We built VABN University to be the West Point of the ...

Some people are waiting more than a year to have their claims processed, the Public Accounts Committee says.

The seal on the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, D.C. is shown in June 2013. (Charles Dharapak/AP) The backlog of veterans first-time disability claims in coming ...

If you've applied for Social Security disability benefits and are still waiting for an answer, you're not alone. "For the first time in history, more than 1 million people are waiting on the Social ...

The attorneys at Robert Peirce & Associates have been helping individuals that can no longer work, due to an injury or chronic illness, since the firm was established. Bob Peirce, founder of the firm, ...

I'm not one to generally say "I told you so," but in this case, well, I told you so! Two weeks ago I said to start paying attention to the explosion in disability claims because for far too many, this ...