The department is planning to broaden its machine learning-powered Automated Decision Support tool to cover more types of claims.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has pushed its backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims consistently below 100,000 for the first time since 2020. VA said it has cut the ...

WASHINGTON — Benefit claims on appeal that can take years for a decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs would be delivered faster and with fewer errors under a package of Republican-led House ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to modernize the Veterans Affairs' claims process. The bill calls for developing an artificial intelligence system that will retrieve data, provide ...

For decades, veterans have waited months, sometimes years, for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to process disability claims. The backlog has been infamous, with hundreds of thousands of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs processed over 2 million disability claims in 2025, breaking records for speed. Average processing time dropped to 132 days, down from 141 days at the start of the ...