According to the VA’s FY2025 Annual Benefits Report, 16,931 of Wyoming’s roughly 44,225 veterans receive VA disability compensation. Plenty more were denied and have yet to receive what they are owed. When that is the case, Hill & Ponton steps in to appeal.
Our disability lawyers hold VA accreditation, and appeals are all we handle. We know what the agency scrutinizes, the points where a claim unravels, and how to reconstruct one that was refused or scored too low.
Wherever your claim ground to a halt, we can carry it onward, and we earn a fee only by winning your appeal.
Our Legal Services for Wyoming Veterans
- Disability Compensation: We fight for the largest monthly benefit your service-connected condition can justify, alongside the back pay reaching back to the date the claim ought to have been approved.
- Appeals: If the VA denies a claim or sets the rating too low, we push the appeal through to the finish and press for the decision the agency should have made.
- Rating Increases: When a condition outpaces the rating on file, we document the worsening and push for the steeper percentage, and the heftier monthly sum, it now supports.
- Survivor Benefits: Where a service-connected illness or injury claims a veteran’s life, the surviving relatives, be they a spouse, a child, or a parent, may bring a claim for DIC and survivor support, and we see each family through it.
- Total Disability Based on Individual Unemployability: When service-connected conditions close off steady employment, TDIU pays at the 100% level even when the combined figure lands lower. We assemble the medical and employment record the case demands.
- Special Monthly Compensation: The severest injuries and diseases can lift pay beyond the usual 100% disability tier.
What Compensation and Benefits Are Available to You?
Just about everything the VA pays out or provides hinges on the disability rating. The agency pegs that number to how much a service-connected condition erodes daily functioning and the capacity to hold a job.
The scale rises in ten-point jumps from 10% to 100%, and each step up brings a larger tax-free monthly check.
Stack several conditions and the VA folds them together with a combining formula that often lands under what veterans assume, so precision counts; even a small rating increase can move the monthly figure.
Below are the monthly amounts the VA currently pays a Wyoming veteran who has no dependents:
- 10%: $180.42
- 20%: $356.66
- 30%: $552.47
- 40%: $795.84
- 50%: $1,132.90
- 60%: $1,435.02
- 70%: $1,808.45
- 80%: $2,102.15
- 90%: $2,362.30
- 100%: $3,938.58
Those amounts grow annually with cost-of-living increases, and adding a spouse, children, or dependent parents to the household raises them further.
On top of federal compensation, Wyoming provides its own benefits for disabled veterans, including property tax relief, cut-rate hunting and fishing licenses, and a leg up in state hiring.
When your rating understates how much your condition truly costs you, Hill & Ponton can fight for the increase that keeps every benefit tied to it within reach.
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When Should You Hire a VA Disability Lawyer?
Many Wyoming veterans handle the first claim themselves, and it frequently works out. The turning point is a denial, or a rating set well under how severe the condition really is, where professional help shifts the outcome. The appeals process runs on firm deadlines and rules that change constantly, and one overlooked form can stretch the wait by months.
A VA-accredited attorney brings expertise to your side. Hill & Ponton works on VA disability matters alone; we focus on denied and underrated appeals, gather the records, secure medical opinions, and lay out how a disability upends a veteran’s everyday life and capacity to work.
Your VA Appeal Options
- Supplemental Claim: Add new and material evidence, a recent diagnosis or overlooked records, and ask the VA to decide again.
- Higher-Level Review: Have a higher-level reviewer take a fresh look at the same file when you believe the VA got it wrong, adding nothing new.
- Board of Veterans’ Appeals: The final rung, with a choice of direct review, an evidence-submission docket, or a live hearing decided by a Veterans Law Judge.
When the VA refuses to recognize how serious your condition is, we are ready to act. Looking at your case is free and nothing is due upfront, with a fee owed only when we succeed. Tell us your story to see how we can help.
Winning Your VA Disability Appeal
A large share of claims fail because the needed evidence never made it to the VA, or because no one connected the condition to service. Every claim stands on three things:
- Current diagnosis: a treating clinician confirms in writing that you carry the diagnosis right now.
- In-service event: your service file documents an injury, illness, incident, or exposure able to cause or worsen the condition.
- Nexus: a qualified specialist links the two and finds it “at least as likely as not” a consequence of service.
Even a sound case can unravel when one element is weak. Appeals frequently falter on:
- A missing medical link between the diagnosis and time in service
- Treatment records that are incomplete or outdated
- Filing or evidence deadlines that were missed
- The VA misreading the service file or care history
Hill & Ponton handles nothing beyond VA disability claims and appeals. We bring in well-regarded medical experts for strong nexus opinions and submit every appeal whole, exact, and before the deadline.
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VA Disability for Toxic Exposure
Wyoming’s military history reaches back generations, and several of its installations carry documented pollution. A veteran stationed at one who later fell ill from a related condition may have a winnable claim.
- F.E. Warren Air Force Base (Cheyenne): An EPA Superfund site where decades of missile-maintenance solvents such as TCE, heavy metals, and PFOS and PFOA from firefighting foam worked into the soil and groundwater.
- Camp Guernsey (Platte County): An Army National Guard training post under federal review for PFAS contamination traced to firefighting foam.
- Former Casper Army Air Field (Natrona County): A World War II airfield, now a Formerly Used Defense Site, where old landfills and base operations left contamination across roughly a dozen identified areas.
- Wyoming Air National Guard (Cheyenne): The 153rd Airlift Wing site at the city’s airport, in long-running state cleanup for firefighting-foam PFAS in groundwater.
Exposure that happened elsewhere can ground a claim just as firmly, from Agent Orange to the burn-pit smoke the PACT Act now recognizes. Any time a toxic exposure lies behind your diagnosis, an earlier denial isn’t the final word.
Legal Resources and Lawyers Near You
Cheyenne
Cheyenne VA Regional Benefit Office: 2360 East Pershing Boulevard, Cheyenne, WY 82001.
Casper
Natrona County Veterans Service Office: 5905 CY Avenue, Casper, WY 82604. Phone: 307-258-1100
Wyoming VA Facilities Serving Veterans
Veterans Service Offices
- Cheyenne VA Regional Benefit Office: 2360 East Pershing Boulevard, Cheyenne, WY 82001. National benefits line: 800-827-1000
- Wyoming Veterans Commission: 5800 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, WY 82009. Phone: 307-777-8152
VA Medical Centers and Clinics
- Cheyenne VA Medical Center: 2360 East Pershing Boulevard, Cheyenne, WY 82001. Phone: 307-778-7550
- Sheridan VA Medical Center: 1898 Fort Road, Sheridan, WY 82801. Phone: 307-672-3473
- Casper VA Clinic: 6000 East 2nd Street, Casper, WY 82609. Phone: 307-672-3473
- Gillette VA Clinic: 604 Express Drive, Gillette, WY 82718. Phone: 307-685-0676
- Riverton VA Clinic: 2300 Rose Lane, Riverton, WY 82501. Phone: 307-857-1211
- Rock Springs VA Clinic: 1001 Gateway Boulevard, Rock Springs, WY 82901. Phone: 307-672-3473
- Cody VA Clinic: 1432 Rumsey Avenue, Cody, WY 82414. Phone: 307-587-4015
Vet Centers
- Cheyenne Vet Center: 2617 East Lincolnway, Suite C, Cheyenne, WY 82001. Phone: 307-778-7370
- Casper Vet Center: 1030 North Poplar Street, Suite B, Casper, WY 82601. Phone: 307-261-5355
Housing Assistance and Support for Wyoming Veterans
Homelessness still touches Wyoming’s veterans, and the state’s brutal winters make it perilous. The 2025 Point-in-Time count logged 48 veterans without shelter on one night in January.
Coordinated out of the Cheyenne and Sheridan VA medical centers and the outpatient clinics around the state, the VA’s homeless-veteran programs connect people with HUD-VASH vouchers, Health Care for Homeless Veterans, and Grant and Per Diem transitional housing, with case managers on the case from intake onward. Supportive Services for Veteran Families adds homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing throughout the state.
Time after time, a disability payment wrongly denied or left in limbo proves to be the root of a family’s housing collapse. At Hill & Ponton, veterans on the verge of losing their homes go to the head of our list, and we ask nothing unless the appeal prevails. If you’re facing unemployment or housing insecurity, get in touch for a free review of your claim.
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