Board of Veterans' Appeals Decisions

A free, condition-tagged reference archive of 500 real veterans-appeals decisions from the public record — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC), the court that reviews the Board; each entry is labeled with its court. Every decision shows the issue, the reasoning, and the case law cited. A single decision can involve several conditions and outcomes, so condition counts below sum to more than the total — that is multi-tagging, not an error.

Searching for a case like yours? Start with the official database

The Board publishes its full corpus — roughly 1.9 million decisions back to 1992 — in a free government search: search all BVA decisions (tip: quote exact phrases like “flat feet” and add outcome words like “granted” or “remanded”). The archive below is our curated, condition-tagged subset — useful for seeing how judges weigh evidence on claims like yours, faster than raw search.

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Official 2026 VA monthly compensation, including the 2.8% COLA increase.

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2026 base rates, all ratings (veteran alone)

Rating	Monthly (2026, incl. 2.8% COLA)
10%	$180.42
20%	$356.66
30%	$552.47
40%	$795.84
50%	$1,132.90
60%	$1,435.02
70%	$1,808.45
80%	$2,102.15
90%	$2,362.30
100%	$3,938.58

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How to read a Board decision

Granted means the Board decided the issue in the veteran's favor. Denied means it did not. Remanded is neither — the issue is sent back to the regional office for more development (an exam, missing records, a procedural fix) and comes back for another decision; a remand is not a loss. Dismissed usually means the issue was withdrawn or resolved. One more thing worth knowing before you cite a decision in your own claim: Board decisions are non-precedential — each one binds only the case it decides (38 C.F.R. § 20.1303). They are still valuable as worked examples of what evidence persuaded a judge on facts like yours.

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Judge Outcome Statistics →
Issue-level grant / denial / remand rates for every Veterans Law Judge, from 1,929,585 parsed decisions. Outcome Rates by Condition →
What the Board actually grants, denies, and remands — by condition and benefit type, math shown. Board Decision Finder →
Search every parsed decision by condition, outcome, judge, years and the evidence in the record — va.gov links and a CSV. What Overturns the Board →
Court-level reversal patterns: which denial reasoning fails at the CAVC, with the winning arguments — dockets from the Court's own published decisions.

Dataset and citation → — all 1,929,585 decisions as a citable dataset: data dictionary, coverage by year, a free sample download, and how to cite it.

Board of Veterans' Appeals Decisions

Searching for a case like yours? Start with the official database

How to read a Board decision

Don't read decisions one at a time — let AI find the ones that match your case

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