Learn how to establish service connection for PTSD and secure the correct VA disability rating. Understand evidence requirements, medical documentation, and steps to strengthen your claim.

Veteran advocates warned the rule could cause veterans’ disability ratings to be reduced, possibly prompting some to stop ...

The new rule might mean that veterans receive lower disability ratings from the VA, officials from major veterans service organizations said.

The VA paused a rule that bases compensation on how a veteran does on medication and not on the injury or illness, but it ...

A Vietnam veteran has filed suit over a VA rule that requires medical examiners to factor in a medication's effects when ...

Veterans who experienced certain traumatic events during their service may be able to receive disability compensation in the form of non-taxed monthly payments, as well as free health care, including ...

Every servicemember enters and leaves the armed forces with a medical examination. That procedural fact reflects the original logic behind what the Department of Veterans Affairs calls “disability ...

Securing VA disability benefits can be far more complex than many veterans anticipate. Travis Sayre emphasizes that veteran's ...

—A recent study investigating factors affecting VA service connection denial for PTSD claims related to military sexual trauma found that citing sexual harassment were more likely to be denied than ...

This chapter summarizes what is known about how aggravation of preservice disability and secondary claims are evaluated and rated, and provides recommendations on how the current process can be ...