VA Claims Insider

If your VA claim was denied, you may still be able to preserve your effective date, but only if you act within VA deadlines. 

Miss the deadline and you could lose months or even years of retroactive VA compensation.

This guide exp...

A diagnosis matters for VA disability benefits, but your diagnosis alone does not tell VA how severe your condition is.

For example, two veterans can have the same diagnosis and end up with very different VA ratings. Why? Because VA disability is about more than the name of your condition. It’s about how that condition affects your ability to functi...

Step 5 of a VA claim, known as the rating phase, may last a few days to a few weeks, though the VA offers no exact timeline.

During this stage, the VA reviews the evidence in your file and determines whether your conditions are service-connected and whi...

If you’re at a 90% VA disability rating, you’re within reach of 100%. The rating increase is possible, ...

Let’s clear this up fast: The VA did not eliminate secondary claims.

Anything you read or hear to the contrary is false.

What actually happened is this: On May 1, 2026,