CVA Study Guide 2026
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📋 CVA Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CVA Topics to Study (38)
✍️ Sample CVA Questions & Answers
1. Which VA program embeds peer support specialists — veterans who have lived experience with mental health recovery — into VA mental health teams?
VA's Peer Specialist Program employs veterans with personal mental health recovery experience as paid VA staff to support other veterans in their recovery journey.
2. Which federal law requires federal contractors with 50 or more employees to take affirmative action to employ and advance qualified veterans?
VEVRAA requires federal contractors with 50 or more employees and contracts over the threshold to take affirmative action in employing and advancing protected veterans.
3. What VA benefit provides supplemental income to low-income wartime veterans who are permanently and totally disabled?
Veterans Pension is a needs-based benefit providing supplemental income to wartime veterans who are permanently and totally disabled due to non-service-connected conditions and who meet income and net worth limits.
4. What is the significance of the Vet Center program for veterans undergoing health assessments?
Vet Centers provide readjustment counseling and mental health support, and records from Vet Centers can serve as medical evidence supporting VA disability claims.
5. What is the relationship between Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD for VA rating purposes?
TBI is rated under Diagnostic Code 8045 under the neurological section while PTSD is rated under DC 9411, and both can be separately rated as co-existing conditions.
6. A veteran's service-connected knee condition worsens due to altered gait, causing a secondary hip condition. How should the hip condition be rated?
Secondary service connection applies when a service-connected disability proximately causes or aggravates another condition, which is then also rated as service connected.