WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has sharply reduced the number of veterans waiting for disability and pension benefit decisions. For the first time in years, the number of pending ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has cut its backlog by more than 60% in a year, according to new statistics released by ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that the VA disability claims backlog dipped below 100,000 for the first time ...

VA has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time ...

The department is planning to broaden its machine learning-powered Automated Decision Support tool to cover more types of claims.

The department has reported that the backlog of benefit and compensation claims is 63 percent smaller than a year ago.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin automatically paying the higher of two key survivors’ benefits later this month ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time since 2020. VA said it has cut the ...

With six weeks still left to go in fiscal 2025, the Veterans Affairs Department announced Wednesday the agency has already processed a single-year record of 2,524,115 veteran disability compensation ...

The VA has finalized a new rule designed to deliver faster decisions and quicker payments for survivors.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' services are limited as thousands of its employees have been furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown. The agency, which oversees health care and ...

The ABLE Age Adjustment Act expanded eligibility for ABLE accounts, which are tax-advantaged savings accounts designed for people with disabilities.