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

Senator Tammy Duckworth reacts to VA halting enforcement of a rule endangering veterans' disability ratings and health care ...

Members of Congress pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs to officially rescind a controversial new rule on the assessment of disability ratings after VA Secretary Doug Collins pledged that the ...

It would change disability ratings based on veterans' responses to medication.

The rule, which had gone into effect without prior notice, was quickly condemned by veterans groups as effectively lowering a veteran’s disability rating.

Under a previous court precedent, VA examiners were required to consider what a veteran’s disability would look like without medication. Under the new rule, the rating is based on how the veteran ...

VA Secretary Doug Collins said the agency looks to avoid what many perceived as “adverse consequences.” ...

From day one, we said we're going to put the veteran first in anything that we do," Doug Collins said. "I think that's made the biggest difference." ...

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Paul Lawrence said the VA realizes it needs to communicate better with veteran groups.

Veterans want the VA to rescind a controversial regulation published Feb. 17 that put compensation ratings in legal limbo.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week abruptly reversed course on a new rule requiring veterans’ disability ...

A new Department of Veterans Affairs rule that would tie disability ratings more closely to how well medication controls symptoms has been halted by the VA Secretary.