Reviews the goals and effectiveness of current policies for compensating veterans with
military-related disabilities. Identifies trends in veterans' disabilities, compares the military …

Abstract The Departments of Defense and Veterans' Affairs (DoD and VA) pay about $35
billion in disability compensation to about 3.2 million veterans each year. Their disabilities …

The Department of Veterans Affairs VA oversees a disability program that makes payments
through the Veterans Benefits Administration VBA to compensate US veterans for medical …

Executive summary The Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission (the Commission) asked
The CNA Corporation (CNAC) to help assess the appropriateness of the benefits that the …

Veterans with disabilities are less likely to work today than in the past; between 1995 and
2014, the percentage of veterans who were working while receiving disability compensation …

There are five major benefit programs that provide financial support to veterans with
disabilities: The Department of Defense (DoD) Disability Retirement program; the …

Purpose Concerns that disability benefits may create disincentives for employment may be
especially relevant for young American military veterans, particularly veterans of the recent …

Workers' compensation is the nation's oldest social insurance program. There is virtually no
federal role in the state workers' compensation programs. As a result, those programs …

This study evaluates disabled veteran compensation law against its stated objective,
equalizing the pay differential associated with disability. The significance of this study is that …

In an effort to explore the continued challenges faced by post-9/11 veterans with disabilities
as they transition from military service back to their home communities, the Cornell …