The 2027 pay rates, a new main screen, news in the app, and new pay tables without waiting for an app update.

• 2027 pay rates: VA's rates rise 3.6% on December 1 with the cost-of-living adjustment. The app switches to them by itself that day; pick 2027 to see yours now.

• New main screen: your combined rating, monthly pay, SMC and pending-claim projection sit together in one summary card. My Disabilities, Claim Tracker, Symptom Log, Dependents & SMC and Calculators & References are cards below it, each showing where things stand, such as your next claim event or when you last logged a symptom. It works at the largest text sizes, too. Prefer the classic screen? Tap the grid button at the top left, or go to Settings → Main Screen, and switch back anytime.

• New pay tables without an app update: when VA's rates change, the app picks up the new tables by itself. Each table is signed, so the app only uses tables I've published.

• News: COLA updates, VA changes and app news, right in the app. When there's a post, a megaphone shows at the top left of the main screen.

• Settings tells you when a new version of the app is on the App Store.

• The rate year now follows the year VA is paying and switches to the new rates on December 1 by itself. A year you picked before this update is cleared once, so you start from the current year.

• Calendar fix: on a phone set to the Buddhist (Thailand), Japanese, Islamic or Persian calendar, the main screen, Backpay and the Pay Date Predictor could use the wrong year's pay rates. They now always use VA's calendar.

• Various bug fixes and improvements.

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