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Following complaints from veterans and a critical VA Office of Inspector General report on the VA's travel system, the department is streamlining ways for veterans to submit travel claims.
Veterans Affairs officials on Wednesday acknowledged additional technical problems with the department’s online disability claims filing process that affected tens of thousands more veterans ...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has extended the deadline for veterans and survivors applying for PACT Act backdated benefits claims to Monday.
Veterans and survivors can file their PACT Act claim online at va.gov. Veterans service organizations and county-based veterans service officers may offer free help with filing.
According to the Biden Administration, the VA has received nearly 786,000 disability claims under the PACT Act and has already processed almost 435,000 and approved more than 348,000.
How can veterans file disability claims? McDonough directed veterans to VA.gov/PACT to file a claim under the PACT Act.
Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs said they’re creating a new system to notify officials “within 24 hours” of any issues affecting electronically filed claims.
Too much money is at stake for this to be over A 2021 Securities and Exchange Commission filing suggested that the VA claims consulting market was worth $73 billion a year.
The White House and VA have touted record processing rates of nearly two million claims in the past year, which is 13% more than the previous record. For some filers, though, there is an ...