VA disability updates: July 2025.
Here is what moved in July 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.
- July 31, 2025Benefits relatedThe 81-Month Rule for Dependents' Education Assistance
- July 2, 2025Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance
Proposed rules
Not law yet: proposals VA opened for public comment.
- July 31, 2025Waiver or Recovery of Overpayments
- July 22, 2025Expansion of VA Process for 72-Hour Notification of Emergency Treatment
The month's inflation reading
CPI-W for July: 316.349, up 2.5% 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: July 2025," veteranbenefitdesk.com, accessed October 11, 2026, https://veteranbenefitdesk.com/va-disability-updates/2025-07.