Veterans serving veterans
Your VA decision is not the end of the story.
Denied claim. Rating reduction. TDIU. Appeal deadline. Vetus Legal represents veterans and eligible family members in VA disability matters nationwide.
Vetus Legal helps veterans understand their options and pursue the VA disability benefits they earned through service.
How we help
Start with the problem, not the legal jargon.
Most veterans do not start with a legal theory. They start with a denial, a reduction notice, a deadline, or the reality that a benefits decision is affecting rent, family, work, or stability. Start with what happened to you.
Explore Vetus Legal's VA disability servicesDenied VA Claims
Review an unfavorable VA decision and available next-step paths.
VA Appeals
Representation involving Board and other qualifying decision-review matters.
Rating Reductions
Review proposed or completed reductions and procedural protections.
TDIU
Matters involving service-connected disabilities and substantially gainful employment.
VA Disability Compensation
Service connection, increased ratings, effective dates, and related issues.
Tools & resources
Understand the numbers before you make the next move.
The calculator is a planning tool, not a legal service. Use it to estimate a combined VA disability rating, then explore the legal and benefits information that applies to your situation.
VA Disability Calculator
Estimate a combined VA disability rating using VA math. Results are informational and are not a VA decision or legal advice.
The decision follows you home
Where VA sees paperwork, we see your family's livelihood.
Your VA claim is not just a file to us—it is your necessities, your security, and your quality of life.
To navigate that system, you need clarity, not legal jargon or false hope. Vetus Legal explains the law in plain English and sets realistic expectations. While we can never guarantee a specific outcome, we do promise this: you will know exactly where your case stands and what happens next.
State and territory benefits
Your federal VA rating follows you. Your state benefits do not.
Property-tax relief, tuition programs, vehicle benefits, recreation privileges, and dependent benefits can vary by location and rating threshold. Vetus Legal is building a state-by-state directory covering all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and populated U.S. territories.
VA Disability Benefits by State & Territory
Select a VA rating to see which state and territorial programs commonly use that threshold.
Featured from Vetus Legal's published state benefit guides.
Presumptive conditions
Some claims start with where and when you served.
VA presumptions can change what a qualifying veteran must prove, but they do not guarantee compensation. Service, diagnosis, exposure, effective-date, and disability requirements can still control the outcome.
Qualifying service can trigger special presumptive rules.
Some Gulf War veterans may qualify for presumptions involving chronic undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness.
A presumption can reduce part of the evidentiary burden. It does not mean every diagnosis or every veteran automatically qualifies.
Explore Gulf War presumptive conditionsCovered service and covered conditions must still be matched.
Agent Orange presumptions depend on qualifying service, dates, locations, and diagnosed conditions recognized under VA rules.
Coverage turns on the specifics of your service. The full guide lists the recognized conditions, qualifying locations, and date ranges.
Explore Agent Orange presumptive conditionsVA recognizes presumptions for certain former POW diagnoses.
Eligibility depends on the applicable former-POW rules and the claimed diagnosis. This section previews the issue without implying automatic entitlement.
Former-POW presumptions depend on the period of captivity and the diagnosed condition. The full guide sets out the current rules.
Explore former POW presumptionsThe PACT Act expanded presumptive coverage for many veterans.
Qualifying service locations, dates, exposures, and diagnosed conditions can affect whether a presumption applies and how a claim should be evaluated.
A presumption may make one part of the claim easier to establish, but compensation still depends on the full legal and factual record.
Explore toxic-exposure presumptions
Firm leadership
Todd M. Wesche built his career inside veterans law before building Vetus Legal.
Todd is a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran and VA-accredited attorney. His veterans-law career includes service as a Senior Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and private practice representing veterans, dependents, and survivors.
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Vets with Benefits
A veteran-focused podcast hosted by Todd Wesche and sponsored by Vetus Legal. The podcast is a separate educational media property, not Vetus Legal's legal-services platform.
Podcast content is educational and informational, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Veteran feedback
Hear it from veterans we have represented.
Vetus Legal publishes client feedback from verified Google reviews, as written. Prior results and reviews do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Read what veterans say about working with Vetus Legal.
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