There are currently 500,000 claims for service-related disabilities waiting to get processed by the VA, and 40 percent of these claims wait more than four months for a decision.

Exceptions are made for those who are discharged as the result of service-related disabilities.

He had a service-related disability and spent the last few years of his life at a Veterans Administration medical facility.

Part of President Obama's American Jobs Act, this legislation creates tax credits to encourage businesses to hire service members and those with service-related disabilities.

He'd been drafted and had gone off two days after they moved in, leaving Reva with stacks of cardboard boxes to unpack, returning fourteen months later with a service-related disability.

The administration says the co-payment and the $250 "user fee" would apply mainly to veterans in lower-priority categories, who have higher incomes and do not have service-related disabilities.

Under the new budget, the agency will focus on what officials describe as their "core constituency," including veterans with service-related disabilities or low incomes.

The fee increases, which apply to higher-income veterans who do not have service-related disabilities, are expected to produce $424 million and persuade some 213,000 veterans to seek their health care elsewhere, officials said.

Reservists and National Guard personnel who served stateside in peacetime settings or have no service-related disabilities generally do not qualify for VA health benefits.

In addition, veterans who incurred service-related disabilities are entitled to receive disability compensation benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans...