Your Blood Pressure Reading Just Became Your Ticket to Benefits You’ve Earned When Tom walked into his doctor’s office in Portland last spring, he expected the usual advice about cutting back on salt. What he didn’t expect was that his high blood pressure diagnosis would qualify him for VA disability compensation dating back decades. Tom […]

Tom served two tours in Iraq before returning to Bangor. Now 68 and living with traumatic brain injury and dementia, he receives monthly VA disability compensation. His daughter Sarah noticed unpaid bills piling up after he fell victim to a phone scam. When she contacted the VA, she learned about the fiduciary program and had […]

How Can I Get VA Benefits After a Brain Injury Changed My Life? The blast threw you sideways, and for a moment, everything went black. When you came to, the world felt different. Sounds were sharper. Lights hurt your eyes. Simple conversations became exhausting puzzles. You told yourself it would pass, that you just needed […]

You served your country. You came home with a bad back, ringing in your ears, and a knee that won’t cooperate. You file your VA disability claims and receive separate ratings for each condition: 40% for your back, 20% for your knee, and 10% for tinnitus. Simple math says that adds up to 70%, right? […]

The ocean carried you through the Vietnam War. But it may have carried something else too, something dangerous, something the government ignored for decades. If you served aboard a Navy or Coast Guard ship off Vietnam’s coast between 1962 and 1975, you likely breathed toxic herbicides. You drank contaminated water. You made contact with poisoned […]