Panayotis Stavros Elias Lambrakopoulos, 42, an attorney with the Board of Veterans' Appeals, died Feb. 21 at his home in Chevy Chase of congestive heart failure resulting from treatment of Hodgkin ...

Cheryl Mason, an attorney who once served as the chief executive officer of the Board of Veterans' Appeals and now works as a senior adviser to Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins, has been ...

Reps. Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., reintroduced the Board of Veterans’ Appeals Attorney Retention and Backlog Reduction Act on Monday to help whittle down a 200,000-case ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has long struggled with staffing shortages, particularly in critical roles such as physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and adjudicators. These ...

The bill would authorize the Board of Veterans’ Appeals to group similar appeals together to reduce the time that it takes to render decisions compared to when appeals are reviewed individually.

They argue that the Veterans Board of Appeals, and later, the appeals court, failed to apply a "benefit-of-the-doubt" rule that should have resulted in disability compensation awards.

Still more do not have the benefit of having an attorney to fight on their ... over 11,000 veterans have passed away waiting for their claims to be determined at the Board of Veterans Appeals.