Context Most studies examining the clinical impact of disability benefits have compared aid
recipients with people who never applied for benefits. Such practices may bias findings
against recipients because disability applicants tend to be much sicker than never-
applicants. Furthermore, these studies ignore the outcomes of denied claimants. Objective
To examine long-term outcomes associated with receiving or not receiving Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) disability benefits for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the most …