---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7288"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7288"
heading: "Annual report"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7288"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 72 — United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §7288. Annual report

- (a) **In General.—** The chief judge of the Court shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress each year a report summarizing the workload of the Court for the fiscal year ending during the preceding year.
- (b) **Elements.—** Each report under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include, with respect to the fiscal year covered by such report, the following information:
  - (1) The number of appeals filed with the Court.
  - (2) The number of petitions filed with the Court.
  - (3) The number of applications filed with the Court under [section 2412 of title 28](/usc/28/2412.md).
  - (4) The total number of dispositions by each of the following:
    - (A) The Court as a whole.
    - (B) The Clerk of the Court.
    - (C) A single judge of the Court.
    - (D) A multi-judge panel of the Court.
    - (E) The full Court.
  - (5) The number of each type of disposition by the Court, including settlement, affirmation, remand, vacation, dismissal, reversal, grant, and denial.
  - (6) The median time from filing an appeal to disposition by each of the following:
    - (A) The Court as a whole.
    - (B) The Clerk of the Court.
    - (C) A single judge of the Court.
    - (D) Multiple judges of the Court (including a multi-judge panel of the Court or the full Court).
  - (7) The median time from filing a petition to disposition by the Court.
  - (8) The median time from filing an application under [section 2412 of title 28](/usc/28/2412.md) to disposition by the Court.
  - (9) The median time from the completion of briefing requirements by the parties to disposition by the Court.
  - (10) The number of oral arguments before the Court.
  - (11) The number of cases appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  - (12) The number and status of appeals and petitions pending with the Court and of applications described in [paragraph (3)](#b-3) as of the end of such fiscal year.
  - (13) The number of cases pending with the Court more than 18 months as of the end of such fiscal year.
  - (14) A summary of any service performed for the Court by a recalled retired judge of the Court.
  - (15) An assessment of the workload of each judge of the Court, including consideration of the following:
    - (A) The time required of each judge for disposition of each type of case.
    - (B) The number of cases reviewed by the Court.
    - (C) The average workload of other Federal judges.
- (c) **Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.—** In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
  - (1) the Committee on [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2)’ Affairs of the Senate; and
  - (2) the Committee on [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2)’ Affairs of the House of Representatives.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–389, title VI, § 604(a), Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4178.)