I'm told sometime in the past month the Office of Management and Budget approved a six-page claim form that veterans use to apply for disability benefits, replacing a 23-page application that was so ...

Short-term disability is a type of government-run insurance or employer benefit that gives you income replacement for a temporary period when you are unable to work due to a covered illness, injury, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Improvements to the benefits claims process have cut through the delays and bureaucracy for thousands of Americans with ...

Applying for a VA disability rating can be a difficult, confusing, and arduous process that can feel overwhelming even for the most prepared veterans. The maze of forms, deadlines, and medical ...

When addressing claims, different approaches to handling each disability claim are necessary because contractual provisions can vary dramatically, especially when addressing the definition of "total" ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing a tool that will analyze veterans' disability claims applications for fraud - a program VA officials say could identify providers or companies that ...

WASHINGTON — Billy Whyde, a Navy veteran in Columbus, Ohio, has filed five disability claims in 15 months with the Department of Veterans Affairs for a chronic neurological condition he said he ...

Improvements to the benefits claims process have cut through the delays and bureaucracy for thousands of Americans with disabilities, according to new data from the Social Security Administration. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, D.C. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images) (Tierney L. Cross) The ...