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Some research suggests that VA disability benefits achieve their goal of helping veterans who have PTSD. The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), a component of the Department of Veterans Affairs, processes disability claims and administers all aspects of the VA disability program. Since 1988 VA disability claim decisions have been subject ...
A newly surfaced 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder than their white counterparts.
From 2007 to 2020, the VA denied 78% of disability claims by veterans that were alleged to have been caused by burn pits. The Honoring our PACT Act removes the requirement that veterans prove that burn pits caused their illness and gives retroactive pay to veterans who did not receive care for their illnesses after claiming disability caused by ...
The VA Regional Office ultimately did not reopen the finally denied claim for hearing loss, as it held that new and material evidence had not been submitted. The VA Regional Office also denied the claim for tinnitus as being not well grounded. While the claim was pending, the Veterans Claim Assistance Act of 2000 was passed.
Black veterans who ask the VA for physical or mental health benefits are less likely to get them than white veterans. The VA is launching a new effort to fix that.
Thousands of veterans who say they were sickened by radiation exposure during their military service have been denied federal benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs said, as cancer and old ...
The VA Regional Office denied the claim and the Veteran filed a Notice of Disagreement. [ 1 ] In December 1997, the Veteran provided a statement that his condition started in 1966 but only started causing him pain 30 years after service.
He filed another disability claim for major depression, as a direct service connected illness, [a] In 1998, VBA denied service connection on both counts. Nieves-Rodriguez then appealed the decision to the Board of Veterans Appeals. Nieves-Rodriguez obtained private medical opinions from two physicians in support of his claim.
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