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VA Disability Benefits: GAO Testimony on Outdated Criteria & Needed Reforms

Elizabeth H. Curda, director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability Office, delivers testimony before a House subcommittee on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation program. The testimony highlights VA's progress--and remaining challenges--in updating disability rating criteria that have not been fully modernized in over 80 years, and outlines steps needed to remove the program from GAO's High-Risk List.
Date: Jan 14, 2026
Runtime: 00:04:26
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VA Disability Benefits: Progress Made but VA Decisions on Veterans’ Claims Continue to Be Based, in Part, on Outdated Criteria
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