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    • Board of Veterans' Appeals Decisions

    Metadata Updated: September 28, 2023

    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} BVA decisions are discoverabled via this search engine tool.

    Access & Use Information

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

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://search.usa.gov/search/docs?affiliate=bvadecisions

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 28, 2023
    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 September 28, 2023
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-BVA-BVA-001
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-09-21
    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.va.gov/sitemap_bva.xml
    Data Dictionary Type text/xml
    Harvest Object Id 7a4bb053-2471-4a23-a2d6-e15bf3fb3895
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/rw54-s8nj
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:086
    Related Documents https://search.usa.gov/search/docs?affiliate=bvadecisions
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 969a90d7de6dce36c1996935c1ec2ddb46efb44f5d02cbbb2128126508f5f67e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1992-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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