Veterans' disability payments will increase by 2.8% in 2026 due to a cost-of-living adjustment, effective December 1, 2025.

Veterans will see an increase in their monthly disability payments next year, as the Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed ...

Today, December 1, 2025, marks the start of a new month and, for many, the receipt of a monthly disability payment from U.S.

VA benefits veterans disability compensation payments to spike after 2026 COLA update as the new 2.8 percent rate takes ...

The 50% impairment rating was the highest rating required in the country. That meant that most workers in Pennsylvania would find that, after receiving 104 weeks of wage loss benefits, most IREs would ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved nearly 80% of the 570,000 claims it has adjudicated under the PACT Act, distributing more than $2.2 billion in disability compensation to veterans or ...

The impairment rating procedure remains a powerful remedy for the employer and insurer to attempt to limit future indemnity wage loss benefit exposure. On October 24, 2018, Act 111 replaced the ...

As December 2025 begins, millions of U.S. veterans anticipate a crucial financial boost. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is set to implement a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in ...

This is the ninth study conducted by A.M. Best Co. on the long- term impairment rates of A.M. Best-rated, U.S.-domiciled insurance companies. It updates Best's Impairment Rate and Rating Transition ...

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Best’s latest special report on the long-term impairment rates of U.S.-domiciled insurance companies states that no insurers were added to the list of net ...

The majority in a 2-1 split Commonwealth Court decision determined that a workers' compensation judge's review of a claimant's impairment rating evaluation should have taken into account work ...