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Current reporting and practical explainers on VA benefits, disability claims and other programs affecting Veterans and their families.
21 Updates
The VA home-loan benefit can be used more than once, sometimes while another VA-backed loan remains active. A current COE, entitlement, occupancy and lender approval decide the path.
VA's three-month VGLI premium holiday has a November 1 active-coverage test, first-premium exceptions for new policies, specific billing instructions, and a credit or requested-refund path for covered prepayments.
Choose among SAH, SHA, TRA, and HISA using the disability, home, ownership, medical-purpose, use-limit, current-amount, and application rules that distinguish them.
Choose between VA Forms 21-4138 and 21-10210, separate firsthand observations from medical opinions, and pair supporting statements with the governing claim or review form.
A four-stage guide to proving transmission, receipt, correct claim association, and consideration—with the right route for an initial claim, Supplemental Claim, HLR, or Board appeal.
A decision guide to money VA already owed, pending claims and appeals, substitution rights, legal priority, current survivor forms, evidence rules, and one-year deadlines after a claimant dies.
A decision guide to VA burial, plot, and transportation payments, including current amounts, claimant rules, automatic spouse payments, filing deadlines, evidence, Form 21P-530EZ, and the corrected home-hospice window.
A decision guide comparing DIC with Survivors Pension, including the qualifying death and service paths, survivor rules, current rates and financial limits, forms, evidence, and VA's February 2026 one-application processing rule.
A route-by-route guide to requesting a DD214 or other military record through eVetRecs, SF-180, milConnect, a service repository, or VA—and knowing when a correction or emergency route is different.
A practical comparison of the Veteran's own improved Veterans Pension and VA disability compensation, including the current Pension financial limits, MAPR calculation, application forms, and written-election rule.
A practical guide to identifying a proposed VA rating reduction, a final decision, or another payment change, with the applicable response opportunities and official help.
A current-rate reference for VA disability compensation with dependents: the complete 2026 tables for a spouse, children and dependent parents, how the additional-child amounts work, and which form to file.
A living reference for VA disability payment timing: the official 2026 Treasury settlement schedule, why the benefit month and deposit date differ, and how first payments, back pay and bank early-deposit practices differ from the recurring monthly date.
A living 2027 VA disability COLA tracker with two official CPI-W inputs, the 2025 base quarter, transparent provisional scenarios and thresholds, the pending September value, and legislation status.
A status and eligibility guide to the Major Richard Star Act (S. 1032 and H.R. 2102): what it would change for Chapter 61 disability retirees, how it compares with current CRDP and CRSC rules, and where the bill stands in Congress.
NA Form 13075 is a National Archives questionnaire used to locate or help reconstruct basic service information when a record cannot be found or may have been lost in the 1973 NPRC fire. It is not a VA disability claim.
VIC, VHIC and DoD military IDs are not interchangeable. Use this decision guide to match the credential to discounts, VA care, TSA, installation access or DoD privileges.
VA opened its Partial Claim Program June 15, but servicers have until Nov. 28 to implement it with VA’s new loss-mitigation process. Here is what borrowers should do now.
VA currently lists VES as a claim-exam contractor; VBE is a separate private medical-evidence service. Private evidence does not automatically replace a C&P exam.
TCAVA has not changed VA disability ratings. Its pending Section 108 would produce lower evaluations in some future sleep-apnea and tinnitus claim scenarios while protecting compensation already in effect.
VA says one combined records-development packet will now be saved and reused in claims affected by the 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire, reducing repeated requests for the same forms.
