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    • Board of Veterans' Appeals

    Metadata Updated: July 2, 2025

    The Board of Veterans' Appeals (also known as 'BVA' or 'the Board') is a part of the VA, located in Washington, D.C.Members of the Board review benefit claims determinations made by local VA offices and issue decision on appeals. These Law Judges, attorneys experienced in veterans law and in reviewing benefit claims, are the only ones who can issue Board decisions. Staff attorneys, also trained in veterans law, review the facts of each appeal and assist the Board members. {38 U.S.C. �� 7103, 7104}

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    References

    https://www.bva.va.gov

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-BVA-BVA-003
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-06-18
    Category Section 5. Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M
    Bureau Code 029:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.bva.va.gov
    Harvest Object Id fd0636e3-a949-4399-85f0-550cac0991d8
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.bva.va.gov
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:086
    Related Documents https://www.bva.va.gov
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5690d41095f554d035722610770d6c789835533a6d010d67a5af7827995d156c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1992-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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