VA Claims and Appeals

Readers of Tom Philpott’s Military Update column sound off on sleep apnea disability claims.

The backlog can't be solved, Principi argues, until everyone acknowledges how recent laws have expanded eligibility.

In setting a goal to end the Department of Veterans Affairs' claims backlog in 2015, Shinseki exposed himself to criticism.

"Here is another thought on why VA is struggling with a disability claims backlog."

The country's largest veterans' service organizations are not only continuing to help veterans with disability claims...

The VA has reached out to 50,000 veterans to get them out of a waiting line for health care and into a VA facility.

VA Secretary Bob McDonald said more than 100 investigations are being carried out at VA facilities across the country.

The Department of Veterans Affairs expects up to 15,000 seriously ill veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., before 1988.

The compensation process was cleared when the White House exempted it from a presidential order blocking new federal...

A VA official said the claims backlog was now down 30 percent, but that progress could be lost because of the shutdown.