The Supreme Court argument, the 2027 COLA, the stalled rating rewrite, Freund approval, and the Gulf War deadline. What each date decides and what to do first.
VA back pay is your effective date, the monthly rate for each period, and the months between. The math, the deductions, and a calculator that runs it.
The VA's fiscal year closes September 30, and decisions cluster in the push. How to read a decision produced under deadline pressure, and what doesn't change.
The VA is expanding automated decision tools in claims processing. What is and isn't known, and the three ways it should change how you build a claim.
A VA database wrongly closed tens of thousands of legacy appeals. What the Freund settlement reopens, who must request review, and how far back pay reaches.
A remand sends your case back for development the VA skipped. Why it happens, how the loop forms, and the compliance argument that breaks it open.
The Federal Circuit ruled effective dates are downstream issues the Board needn't reach unless raised. The habit that protects your back pay, explained.
Peterson, Buckley, Fort Carson, and the Academy carry documented PFAS contamination, with no VA presumption. How these direct-connection claims get won.
Above the Board sits a real federal court, with a 120-day deadline and fees the government pays when you win. How CAVC appeals work and when to use one.
The Nehmer consent decree forces the VA to pay Agent Orange claims back to the original denial, even decades later. Who qualifies, and what survivors miss.