VBA C&P Exam questions with verified
answers graded A+ updated to pass
Veterans Health Administration - correct answer ✔✔bAlso known as VHA, governs the medical
treatment facilities within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans Benefits Administration - correct answer ✔✔bAlso known as VBA, is responsible for
providing a wide variety of benefits and services to Veterans and Servicemembers through
Regional Offices.
Board of Veterans' Appeals - correct answer ✔✔bAlso known as BVA, is the component of the
VA responsible for making final decisions on behalf of the Secretary for claims for Veterans'
benefits from all three Administrations and the Office of General Counsel (OGC) that are
presented to the Board for appellate review.
Disability compensation - correct answer ✔✔bA tax-free monetary benefit paid to Veterans
with disabilities that are the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active
military service.
Special Monthly Compensation (SMC) - correct answer ✔✔bA higher rate of compensation paid
due to special circumstances such as the need of aid and attendance by another person or by a
specific disability such as the loss of use of a hand or leg. Paid to Veterans, their spouses,
surviving spouses and parents.
Claims Based on Special Circumstances - correct answer ✔✔bVeterans may be eligible for other
types of disability compensation once a disability has been determined to be service connected.
i.e.,individual unemployability, automobile allowance, clothing allowance, prestabilization,
hospitalization, convalescence, dental, and birth defects.
, Pension - correct answer ✔✔bNeeds-based benefit for wartime Veterans with limited or no
income who are age 65 or older, or who have a permanent and total disability.
Steps of the disability claim - correct answer ✔✔b1. VBA notifies the Veteran or Servicemember
that VBA has received his or her claim.
2. A VSR or RVSR reviews the claim. A decision will be made unless more evidence is needed.
3. The VSR or RVSR will:
ask for evidence from the claimant, health care providers, governmental agencies, or others
review the evidence make a decision
If VBA needs more evidence during the review, the claim may return to this step more than
once.
4. VBA will prepare the claimant's entire claim decision packet for mailing.
VBA will send the Veteran or Servicemember a packet by U.S. mail that includes details of the
decision on the claim.
Presumption of soundness - correct answer ✔✔bVA will consider a Veteran to have been in
sound condition, i.e., good health, when examined, accepted and enrolled for service, except as
to defects, infirmities, or disorders noted at entrance into service, or where clear and
unmistakable (obvious or manifest) evidence demonstrates that an injury or disease existed
prior to service and was not aggravated by such service.
Direct service connection - correct answer ✔✔bCurrent disability was caused by or resulted
from his military service.
Secondary service connection - correct answer ✔✔bVeteran's disability is proximately due to or
caused by a previously identified service-connected condition.
Aggravation - correct answer ✔✔bPermanent worsening of a) a pre-service condition during
service (aggravation of a pre-existing condition) or b) a nonservice-connected condition at any
time by a service-connected condition (secondary or Allen aggravation).
answers graded A+ updated to pass
Veterans Health Administration - correct answer ✔✔bAlso known as VHA, governs the medical
treatment facilities within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans Benefits Administration - correct answer ✔✔bAlso known as VBA, is responsible for
providing a wide variety of benefits and services to Veterans and Servicemembers through
Regional Offices.
Board of Veterans' Appeals - correct answer ✔✔bAlso known as BVA, is the component of the
VA responsible for making final decisions on behalf of the Secretary for claims for Veterans'
benefits from all three Administrations and the Office of General Counsel (OGC) that are
presented to the Board for appellate review.
Disability compensation - correct answer ✔✔bA tax-free monetary benefit paid to Veterans
with disabilities that are the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active
military service.
Special Monthly Compensation (SMC) - correct answer ✔✔bA higher rate of compensation paid
due to special circumstances such as the need of aid and attendance by another person or by a
specific disability such as the loss of use of a hand or leg. Paid to Veterans, their spouses,
surviving spouses and parents.
Claims Based on Special Circumstances - correct answer ✔✔bVeterans may be eligible for other
types of disability compensation once a disability has been determined to be service connected.
i.e.,individual unemployability, automobile allowance, clothing allowance, prestabilization,
hospitalization, convalescence, dental, and birth defects.
, Pension - correct answer ✔✔bNeeds-based benefit for wartime Veterans with limited or no
income who are age 65 or older, or who have a permanent and total disability.
Steps of the disability claim - correct answer ✔✔b1. VBA notifies the Veteran or Servicemember
that VBA has received his or her claim.
2. A VSR or RVSR reviews the claim. A decision will be made unless more evidence is needed.
3. The VSR or RVSR will:
ask for evidence from the claimant, health care providers, governmental agencies, or others
review the evidence make a decision
If VBA needs more evidence during the review, the claim may return to this step more than
once.
4. VBA will prepare the claimant's entire claim decision packet for mailing.
VBA will send the Veteran or Servicemember a packet by U.S. mail that includes details of the
decision on the claim.
Presumption of soundness - correct answer ✔✔bVA will consider a Veteran to have been in
sound condition, i.e., good health, when examined, accepted and enrolled for service, except as
to defects, infirmities, or disorders noted at entrance into service, or where clear and
unmistakable (obvious or manifest) evidence demonstrates that an injury or disease existed
prior to service and was not aggravated by such service.
Direct service connection - correct answer ✔✔bCurrent disability was caused by or resulted
from his military service.
Secondary service connection - correct answer ✔✔bVeteran's disability is proximately due to or
caused by a previously identified service-connected condition.
Aggravation - correct answer ✔✔bPermanent worsening of a) a pre-service condition during
service (aggravation of a pre-existing condition) or b) a nonservice-connected condition at any
time by a service-connected condition (secondary or Allen aggravation).
