VA Is Rewriting Big Pieces of the Disability Rating Playbook
Military.com | By Haley Fuller
Published February 19, 2026 at 9:56am ET
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VA is in the middle of a multi-year effort to modernize the Veterans Affairs Schedule for Rating Disabilities, the regulatory framework that assigns percentage ratings intended to approximate average impairment post-service, as authorized by statute.
What VA Says It Is Doing, and Where the Answers Live
VA has described the modernization effort as necessary to reflect advances in medical treatment, updated diagnostic standards, and technologies that did not exist when much of the schedule was last revised.
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