When a veteran dies with a VA claim still pending, the claim doesn’t automatically die with them — but the family has to act, and the clock starts the day the veteran passes. Here’s how accrued
A VA overpayment notice is one of the more stressful letters a veteran can get — and the process for fighting it changed in a way that gives you a lot more breathing room than most people realiz
VA Community Care lets you see a private, non-VA doctor with VA footing the bill — but only when specific drive-time or wait-time thresholds are met, and only with written authorization in hand
In March 2026, VA dropped its appeal in a case that reshapes GI Bill eligibility for roughly 1.2 million veterans. If you served two separate periods and earned benefits under both the Montgomery GI B
VA is in the middle of the biggest overhaul of the disability rating schedule since the 1990s, and three of the changes on the table — sleep apnea, tinnitus, and mental health — would touc
Every transition briefing sells the same line: you have preference, so you go to the front of the line. That is not how it works, and believing it is why qualified veterans send out sixty USAJOBS applications and get sixty “referred, not selected” notices. Preference points and hiring authorities are different systems. Points adjust your…
If you are three or more months behind on a VA-guaranteed mortgage, there is a tool available to your servicer that did not exist a year ago, and a decent chance the person answering their phone has never heard of it. That is not paranoia. VA does not require servicers to have this program operational…
The letter is titled something bland like “Proposed Rating Reduction” or “Notice of Proposed Adverse Action,” and it lands in the mailbox with no warning. Somewhere in the second or third paragraph it tells you that VA intends to drop your rating from 70 percent to 30 percent, or from 100 percent to 60 percent,…
There is a window on your way out of the service that opens 180 days before your separation date and slams shut at 90 days. Inside it, you can file a VA disability claim while you are still on active duty, get your exams done while you still have an ID card, and walk out…
Somewhere between the recruiter’s office and the retirement ceremony, a National Guard or Reserve member gets told they can’t file for VA disability because they were never “real” military. It comes from unit leadership, from the VA’s own front counter sometimes, and from other veterans at the American Legion bar. It is wrong. Guard and…