A week after the Department of Veterans Affairs published an interim final rule that would have lowered disability ...

The lawsuit argues that the rule on disability ratings was implemented without proper notice or prior public comment period.

The VA will continue collecting public comment on the rule but it "will not be enforced at any time in the future," VA Secretary Doug Collins said.

The department says it won't enforce a new disability rule two days after announcing it — critics said it would cut veterans' benefits and penalize them for seeking treatment.

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. The VA issued the interim final ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week abruptly reversed course on a new rule requiring veterans’ disability ratings to ...

A federal lawsuit is challenging a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires disability ratings to reflect how well veterans function on medication rather than the severity of their underlying ...

Editor's note: Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins announced Feb. 19 that the VA “is halting the enforcement of the interim final rule,” Collins said in a post on X. “VA issued the ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday abruptly announced that it would stop enforcing a new rule requiring disability ratings to be calculated by how well veterans function on ...

An optometrist provides an eye exam to a VA beneficiary in 2022 at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Michelle Gonzalez/U.S. Army) Veterans Affairs medical examiners are now required to consider the effects of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week abruptly reversed course on a new rule requiring veterans’ disability ratings to be calculated by how well they function on medication and not on the ...