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Vol. I · No. 1Online edition

Veterans, service members and military families: the federal decisions that reach them.

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2026

November 2026

  1. Benefits

    VA to hire 2,000 more claims processors as errors found on review climb

    The department says it decided a record 3.1 million claims in fiscal 2026 with rising accuracy. Its own appeals data, a new outside analysis and two inspector general reviews of automated decisions point to a rising count of errors caught later in the process.