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uses formal employment-verification instruments and internal personnel-investigation rules rather than ad hoc public confirmations when an employee is involved in a high-profile incident: verification...
No executive order issued under President Trump in the provided reporting directly changed the statutory cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) or the dollar rates of VA disability compensation; rather, mul...
Staffing levels are repeatedly identified in reporting as a material driver of disability claims—analysts, law firms, and veterans’ guides link regional understaffing, fewer support personnel, and lim...
The Improving Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act () and related VA materials make clear that clinicians supplying domain‑specific evidence—especially for and mental‑health‑related claims—w...
The population of veterans rated has grown markedly since 2000, driven by a mix of more veterans enrolled in the , changing rules for presumptive conditions, outreach, aging, and war-era injuries; by ...
Veterans organizations—at least within the framework—separate “direct” costs from “” (also called indirect) costs: direct costs are those that can be traced to a specific product or service, while ove...
Official reporting and analyses indicate roughly one to 1.25 million U.S. veterans held a disability rating in the most recent years: about 1.06 million in fiscal 2022 using VA beneficiary totals and ...
Yes — the VA is both planning and executing workforce reductions even as some parts of its budget rise: department documents and reporting show proposals to cut tens of thousands of positions, specifi...
A review of official VA rate tables and independent agency analyses shows there was no across-the-board reduction in Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation between 2017 and 2021; payment schedu...
The materials provided do not establish a specific figure for the VA disability claims backlog "in 2017 before Trump"; the available excerpts explicitly lack a 2017 backlog number and instead point to...
Government shutdowns historically did not stop routine Social Security and Medicare benefit payments because those programs are funded through mandatory spending and trust funds, but tied to these pro...