VA disability updates: January 2025.
Here is what moved in January 2025: rulemaking, regulation text, court filings, form revisions, and the inflation data behind the next pay raise. Every item links to its primary source.
Final rules
These changed the law this month.
- January 10, 2025Benefits relatedPresumptive Service Connection for Leukemias, Multiple Myelomas, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and Myelofibrosis Due to Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter
- January 2, 2025Benefits relatedPresumptive Service Connection for Bladder, Ureter, and Related Genitourinary Cancers Due to Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter
- January 16, 2025Post-9/11 Improvements, Fry Scholarship, and Interval Payments Amendments
- January 10, 2025Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Amendments
Proposed rules
Not law yet: proposals VA opened for public comment.
- January 3, 2025Exempting Whole Health Well-Being Services From Copayment
Regulation text amended
The month's inflation reading
CPI-W for January: 311.172, up 3% from a year earlier. This reading fed the COLA calculation for its benefit year and is preserved here for the record. Follow the current index on the pay increase tracker.
Court decisions filed
A factual log only: case name, docket, date, link. We do not summarize or interpret decisions. Full list on the decisions tracker.
Cite this page
This month's record is permanent and the URL will not change. Quote it freely.
The Veteran Benefit Desk, "VA Disability Updates: January 2025," veteranbenefitdesk.com, accessed October 9, 2026, https://veteranbenefitdesk.com/va-disability-updates/2025-01.