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Review the disability rating schedule for savings

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 20, p. 650. Written by Brooks D. Tucker.

Review the disability rating schedule for savings

The document says “should”Who acts: VA, OMBHow: regulationp. 650 in the PDF
What the document says

“The next Administration should explore how VASRD reviews could be accelerated with clearance from OMB to target significant cost savings from revising disability rating awards”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 650

The Veterans Affairs Schedule for Rating Disabilities determines what percentage disability, and therefore what payment, a condition attracts. The chapter says the revision would target savings from future claimants while preserving awards fully or partially for existing claimants.

What the document actually says

“The next Administration should explore how VASRD reviews could be accelerated with clearance from OMB to target significant cost savings from revising disability rating awards”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 650
That sentence, in plain words

Speed up the review of how disabilities are rated. Aim to save money on future claims.

What this is about

A schedule sets how much each injury pays. The book wants it reviewed faster. It says future claims could pay less. People already receiving it would be protected.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No indexed document revises the Veterans Affairs Schedule for Rating Disabilities, speeds up its review cycle, or seeks budget office clearance to target savings from future rating awards. The nearest candidate concerns how service-connected disability compensation counts toward income limits in housing programs, which is a different question. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 650.
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    “Review the disability rating schedule for savings,” Project 2025, chapter 20, p. 650. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch20-accelerate-disability-rating-review/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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