Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings

[Nevilledog]

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-02-17/new-va-rule-disability-ratings-20780685.html

WASHINGTON — Veterans and their advocates slammed a new rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs for determining disability compensation, predicting it will lower their payments for service-related illnesses and injuries.

The rule, effective immediately, states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment itself.

Titled “Evaluative Rating: Impact of Medication,” the interim final rule was published in the Federal Register and affects how the VA rates a veteran’s disability for new claims and when reevaluating disabilities through clinical exams.

“If medication or other treatment lessens the functional impairment a disability causes and thereby improves a veteran’s earning capacity, that is the proper disability level for which the veteran should be compensated,” the VA stated in the notice.

A public comment period opened Tuesday and will run through April 20. But many veterans and their advocates were already criticizing the rule. Some veterans predicted that the rule will lower disability ratings and subsequent compensation awards.

“This is an erosion of benefits,” said Jason Cameron, a Marine Corps veteran, podcaster and retired veterans benefits service officer from Monterey County, Calif.

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[pandr32]

1. This would be like telling diabetics they don't really have the disease...

because their insulin manages it and they can function.

[leftstreet]

2. +1

Excellent comparison

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

4. Might be the long term goal.

[Traildogbob]

3. Suckers and losers

Yes, The ones that voted for and still support Trump.
And every time I walk through the parking lot to the VA building, you would be shocked at the number of bumper stickers on vehicles as well as the trump bling they wear in the building.
So are they saying, drug em Up and send them to do the jobs like roofing, construction and food harvesting those damn brown people did.
MAGA!!!!
So you lost your legs, here’s a pill, get out in the crop fields, you won’t even have to bend over.
Fuck the GQP. But we have to wait in line to fuck em, they are busy fucking children.
The shit hole country, (without a W,) bar has been lowered below ground level by MurKKKa.
USA USA, we are number one.