The short answer to this question is: yes. However, there is some nuance related to how the VA rates hearing loss and tinnitus. Even if your hearing loss is enough to bother you, if you are assigned a 0% rating under the Rating Schedule for Hearing Impairments, you won’t be given any benefits. A 0% rating […]

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Hiring a VA disability lawyer can be an important step towards getting the benefits you’ve earned through military service. An experienced attorney can help you understand the VA claims process, increase your disability rating, and file an appeal if your claim is denied. Before hiring a lawyer to represent your VA case, there are some […]

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Your classification as a veteran is what entitles you to recover VA disability benefits. Although our firm does not talk about this criterion often because it largely goes without saying, to recover VA disability benefits, you must be a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. That, then, begs the question: What precisely is a veteran of […]

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Last year, in an effort to reduce the federal budget deficit, Congress suggested lowering the budget of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Although the request was quickly quashed, a new cost-saving proposal issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) made similar implications, suggesting that around 235,000 disabled veterans be removed from the VA’s Individual Unemployability Program […]

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has created a ‘rating’ system for assessing the severity of applicants’ disabilities. The rating system is extremely complex. However, to simplify the issue, there are two important things that all veterans should know about their disability rating: Of course, it should also be noted that a person’s disability is never ‘static’. […]

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The Sixth Circuit in American Council of Life Insurers, et al. v. Ken Ross, No. 08-1406, 6th Cir.; 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 5748 (March 18, 2009) upheld. Michigan’s prohibition against discretionary clauses in insurer issued Welfare Benefit Plans. The Court held that administrative rules prohibiting insurance companies from issuing policies containing discretionary language were intended to […]

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